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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Sept 14, 2011 13:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 14, 2011 13:54:01 GMT -5
Donnie, #9 thru 12 are rocks that limpets had attached themselves to. Very common. The others I'll leave to our fossil shell folks to ID.
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Post by tandl on Sept 14, 2011 17:36:20 GMT -5
First specimen is some shells in eroded matrix , cant see them good enough to tell . Second is a brachiopod , don`t know the name. fourth is a mollusk , don`t know the name , i helped a little
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 14, 2011 21:15:50 GMT -5
Shell fossils in metrix.clams,snails and coiled snails....great finds.... I usually work the metric,some of those will have goodies inside that might be hidden........
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jspencer
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Post by jspencer on Sept 15, 2011 0:36:45 GMT -5
I think that the coiled snails are called moon snails or Luna snail.
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nuevomundo
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Post by nuevomundo on Sept 15, 2011 0:57:33 GMT -5
TandL is right about the second one. An easy way to tell the difference between a brachiopod and a bivalve (clams, mussels, etc.) is that brachiopods have assymmetrical shells - i.e. the tip shell and the bottom shell are different.
Looks like a lot of the stuff I used to collect from the Richmond formation. You can find them all over any of the roadcuts outside of Richmond, IN.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Sept 15, 2011 8:37:39 GMT -5
Thanks!
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geostew
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Post by geostew on Sept 21, 2011 22:40:29 GMT -5
you find some really cool stuff.
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