Kirsch Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Please can someone help me out to ID some specimens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 The first piece looks like modern barnacles, and the second one looks like wood - possibly petrified. Third item I see nothing particularly fossily about - could we get more pictures of it from different angles? Also where were these found? Size of items? Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 The first piece looks like modern barnacles, Agreed. Looks very much like a modern clump of Megabalanus tintinnabulum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabalanus_tintinnabulum The second piece looks like a chunk of driftwood (with a nice double knot right in the middle). The last one is oddly gastropod (snail) looking but I'm sure that is probably just geology once again mimicking biology. Would be interesting to see a different view of this piece. Were these collected from the beach in Mexico? Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsch Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Thank you very much Tim, as for the first one I looked it up and you are right, it is a BARNACLE (CIRRIPEDIA) from the Mid-Cambrian. The second one, it is a Petrified Wood, but when I got it it only said Egypt 1500AC that's it. The third one, is about 2 cm long, and 1cm height. I´m pretty sure it´s a GASTROPOD, I think it's a LYMNAEA anyway let me take more pictures and ill show them to you, thanks again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsch Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 You are right Ken, I looked it up and it is what you say. As for the gastropod, I collected it from a beach in the Yucatan Peninsula. The Barnacle is from the Coast of Portugal. And the petrified wood was a gift but the only specification was: FOSSILIZED WOOD FROM 1500A.C. EGYPT, that's it....so im trying to get a little bit more out of it...thanks again you guys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I would like to clarify that the barnacle cluster is modern, and that the wood is from the late Middle Ages, and is still wood (not turned to stone, or "petrified"). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) I hate to appear dogmatic concerning something I know so little about (invertebrates) but there is no way that is a mid-Cambrian barnacle. Here is a link to a picture of the only known pre-Silurian barnacle (?) the mid-Cambiran Priscansermarinus barnetti http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en///fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=106&m=1&&ref=i&sort=name&order=desc&filters=y Edited July 12, 2014 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsch Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Hi everyone I am posting new pictures of the celaphod in different angles so it can help identify... I am also posting what it seems to be a part of a coral, maybe someone expert in the field can tell me what it is... and another petrified snail (polished) I'd really appreciate some help to ID these samples...thanks again...LK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Your 'cephalopod' may be a snail also; it does not show any chamber septa. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 The coral (if a relatively modern skeleton and also collected from the Yucatan) would likely be Porites (either P. porites or P. furcata). Can't really help much with the gastropods. NOTE: the first one is a gastropod (snail) and not a cephalopod which is the class that contains such creatures as octopuses, squid, cuttlefishes, and the nautiloids (including the extant paper and chambered nautilus as well as the extinct belemnites and everybody's favorite, the ammonites). The new (polished) one is quite striking and reminds me of a cone shell. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsch Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Thank you all for this helpful information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) The polished gastropod might be Actaeonella gigantea from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria. Can get the size of a fist. They are sold by the thousands as paperweights. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT845FY4KFhl0qlb3bLpYWh90ncemIH5Og5lPWrDd3IWV-TEvvQ6b_JUOo https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0kGqNK-5nWpL3_O9IEMQvf5zAj21mzYRdxNnrEN-9OtL3Ogbt6Rbq-LiU Edited July 30, 2014 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) The polished gastropod might be Actaeonella gigantea from the Cretaceous of Gosau, Austria. Can get the size of a fist. They are sold by the thousands as paperweights. I think so too. It is probably from Austria. A second source is in Romania and these were traded by an Austrian dealer. Edited July 30, 2014 by andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Who would have thought that a polished gastropod like that would be so easy to identify. The breadth of knowledge contained within the collective noggins on this forum amazes me some times. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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