sixgill pete Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I need some help on this clam. I cannot seem to find it in the North Carolina Fossil Club Volume 2 Fossil Mollusks Book. It was found in an exposure on the Northeast Cape Fear River near Wilmington NC. Late Cretaceous Pee Dee Formation. Maybe someone can give me some insight on this. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022
Plax Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I think it's an incompletely filled cuculea pseudomorph.
sixgill pete Posted June 24, 2015 Author Posted June 24, 2015 very very possible Don, thanks. I meant to ask you about it Sunday but it slipped my mind. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022
Plax Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 we don't often get anything but the steinkern here but have seen some nearly completely filled pseudomorphs at the site you were at and the one across the rivers. A good pseudomorph would have the space the shell formerly occupied completely filled. Am sure you've seen the dolomitic ones at the contact between the rocky point and island creek members of the Peedee. They look like the smooth original shell but are made of mineral fillings that crumble like sugar. The ones near Wilmington are filled with nice hard calcite.
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