Fossil

[jdunc]

I think these are ocean creatures petrified in agate.

 

[old digger]

Welcome to TNET!

You have a Brachiopod fossil. Around here we find a species quite similar that we call ''Devil's Toenails''.






Oh, by the way, we have a fossil Forum.

 

[tamrock]

there it is...Digger did it

 

[yaxthri]

Old Digger it's a Devil's toenail alright but it's a bivalve, a seashell that is, a fossil oyster of the genus Gryphaea.

Gryphaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm a fossil-nut so I should know... I wanted you to know the correct ID, too, no offence intended.

 

[tamrock]

Old Digger it's a Devil's toenail alright but it's a bivalve, a seashell that is, a fossil oyster of the genus Gryphaea.

Gryphaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm a fossil-nut so I should know... I wanted you to know the correct ID, too, no offence intended.

Indeed and as it should be. My great uncle had a farm west of Des Moines, Iowa and below it was some prime limestone, I80 was built from the stone quarried from his farm. I'd be in that quarry finding many crinoids and brachiopods. The last quarry he left open to fill up as a small deep hole lake and stocked it with Bass and Catfish. Still many fossil samples can be found along the shoreline.