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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / September 2005Fossil found: can anyone identify it?
It was found in a residential backyard ... http://spaces.msn.com/members/aguedeney/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHa ndler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZX I%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pUIR9Ea47dIgAzASoF6EHHg!126&_c=PhotoAlbum& _c02_owner=1 > It was found in a residential backyard ... > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/aguedeney/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHa ndler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZX I%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pUIR9Ea47dIgAzASoF6EHHg!126&_c=PhotoAlbum& _c02_owner=1 Umm, All I get is a blank page. Well, I got a picture. Looks like a very large Gryphea but could do with a few views from different angles. Hasnt got the typical angular shape of Exogyra Cheers Nigel Hull East Yorkshire UK My first idea was that it's some kind of nautiloid, but I'm not sure. Dawid I did some googling and coaswatch's idea seems more likely than mine - it's a bivalve. I think it is a nautiloid : Cymatoceras elegans Tony > My first idea was that it's some kind of nautiloid, but I'm not sure. > Dawid George - can we see some pictures from other angles please? Is the plane of the siral flat, or does it twist. Location - I guess from writing style you are in the USA Was it there as an ornament, dug up, in gravel or balast, or what? If it is Gryphea, it is certainly twice the size at least of any I know. Nigel Hull East Yorkshire UK > George - can we see some pictures from other angles please? > Is the plane of the siral flat, or does it twist. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > East Yorkshire > UK Why are you asking me? I didn't post the picture, and in fact, can't even view it, for some darn reason. ooops, my mistake, should have addressed it to Agude. Picture shows something coiled, the pic does not make it clear but I think the coiling is slightly helical rather than a planar spiral. A mobile phone is used for scale, I think it is maybe 20-30 cm across 8-10 inches in old money - there are what I interpret as growth lines radially, quite coarse which remind me of the growth lines of a Grypea though it may be an ammanoid/nautiloid in which case could be ornamentation/ribbing. Only one view, so very difficult to interpret with certainty hence the request for a few more photos from different angles. Cheers Nigel > ooops, my mistake, should have addressed it to Agude. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Nigel It would be nice if he would post the picture somewhere else, as I've not been able to access it (something about the way the security features are enabled on my browser, I suspect). George > It was found in a residential backyard ... > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/aguedeney/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHa ndler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZX I%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pUIR9Ea47dIgAzASoF6EHHg!126&_c=PhotoAlbum& _c02_owner=1 Could it conceivably be an abalone? If so, there will be a line of holes in the side of the shell not visible in the picture. > It was found in a residential backyard ... > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/aguedeney/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHa ndler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZX I%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pUIR9Ea47dIgAzASoF6EHHg!126&_c=PhotoAlbum& _c02_owner=1 Looks like a maggot. > > It was found in a residential backyard ... > > > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/aguedeney/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHa ndler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZX I%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pUIR9Ea47dIgAzASoF6EHHg!126&_c=PhotoAlbum& _c02_owner=1 > > Looks like a maggot. I have seen these quite often in cretaceous deposits of texas and briton. They are known as " Devils toenails" to locals. In some places there are found by the thousands. It Is a type of Oyster. Google: "Exogyra Ponderosa" or "Exogyra Erraticostata" > It was found in a residential backyard ... > Google: "Exogyra Ponderosa" or "Exogyra Erraticostata" > > > It was found in a residential backyard ... Hmmmm - very different from the lower cretaceous Exogyra here in the UK, but I am pretty convinced having seen the photos - and certainly it is way, way larger than I would expect from a gryphea ( Devils Toenail) - learn something new every day Cheers Nigel Hull UK Our Lower Cretaceous - (Albian - Walnut Formation) Exogyra texana is likewise very different from this one - but this one is much younger coming out of the Austin Chalk so early Santonian = Upper Cretaceous in age. Web page gives age range Early Santonian to Early Campanian. Also present in the Austin is another small Exogyra, Exogyra tigrina > > Google: "Exogyra Ponderosa" or "Exogyra Erraticostata" > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Hull > UK |
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