AllGrownsUp Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Hi. Here are some shells from our desert property. Also some burrows/worm tubes I think? There's a tiny shell inside one of the holes (pictured). . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Have to be careful where you collect there, but im sure you already know that. Nice finds!! ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGrownsUp Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Just now, Raggedy Man said: Have to be careful where you collect there, but im sure you already know that. Nice finds!! Thanks. Yeah these are all from our property so hopefully we're safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 36 minutes ago, AllGrownsUp said: Thanks. Yeah these are all from our property so hopefully we're safe. ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 nice shells, looks Neogene to me "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Please give us more specific locality info. Do you know the formation? We may be able to ID the shells for you. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Man, these beauties are making me really jealous! Awesome finds, well done. Max Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I believe some of your "worm tubes" are Gastropoda (Vermetidae). Regards, Ricardo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGrownsUp Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 12/31/2018 at 10:00 AM, ricardo said: I believe some of your "worm tubes" are Gastropoda (Vermetidae). Thanks Ricardo - I looked it up and yep they look identical to those! Very good to know. And aww shucks thanks Max. Every time I think I must have found them all I dig up another. Found this one last weekend to add: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Nice shells over there, congrats! You seem to find bivalves more often then gastropods? Your last one is especially nice. It could be a volutid gastropod with still preserved color pattern. 20 hours ago, AllGrownsUp said: Do you find such patterns more often at your site? Here is one for comparison from the infamous Weitendorf locality of the Miocene Styrian basin in Austria. Height of this volutid (Athleta rarispina) is 4 cm, I took the pic from Hiden (2008). Franz Bernhard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 You have some very nice mollusc fossils. If you could give us an idea of where they were collected, such as a nearby town, we might be able to help you more with the age and possible IDs. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGrownsUp Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 Thanks Don! Our property is in Landers, CA. We're in the Qoa geo zone but also downslope from Pc, Pcc, Gb, Mz, and Gr in about a mile radius in various directions and we're on top of a major fault line. We've also been working on a rock wall using med/lg rocks we can dig up on the property, so lots of random new digs in previously untouched places turning up interesting new things right now. Franz - that's really interesting. I was reading somewhere I may be able to see the old faded patterns on some with a UV light. I have a blacklight flashlight & am trying that with some of the other shells when I'm back on the property this weekend. The photo you posted of the volutid kind of reminds me of the shape of one of the mystery items I had dug up that I posted in the fossil ID section. I think it was decided via the forum that it is likely just a sedimentary rock that has rippled on one side due to the movement via fault on our property, but I can't help but think it looks so much like something that would be inside one of my shells. Its about 4" long. I tried to take photos in different lights so you could see some of the webbed spiral coming out of the round portion: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGrownsUp Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 On the subject of molluscs I had also posted this at some point, thinking it could maybe be a giant mollusc. I assume that would be rare and out-of-place at my desert house so I'm sure it's not but it's a crazy looking huge rock. About 20" tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 4 hours ago, AllGrownsUp said: I was reading somewhere I may be able to see the old faded patterns on some with a UV light. Oh yeah! Conus snails found only a few km away from the Weitendorf locality. I was using my old (1980ies), regular UV-lamp and my crappy camera, best of all, everything was hand-held . Worked out ok. 4 hours ago, AllGrownsUp said: reminds me of the shape of one of the mystery items I had dug up That´s a really difficult one! No idea! Usual preping seems to be difficult with this one. I am leaning toward cutting it lenghtwise with a tile saw. 4 hours ago, AllGrownsUp said: thinking it could maybe be a giant mollusc. 20´´ would be quite tremendous! I am also thinking that this is an oddly shaped rock. Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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