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Chalk Fossil ID
Calliderma- Present Day Rank
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Join date : 2012-08-02
- Post n°3
Re: Chalk Fossil ID
Usually anything this color is either pyrite, bone, fish scales or lobster.
Need to see it with a hand lens to be fair, but i think it looks a bit lobster like.
Can you get any closer images? What does the end look like?
I saw Richards post on the other forum, his knowledge collecting from this level of chalk is far greater than mine(none) so i expect he will be right & they are bits of Pyritised Ammonite.
Cheers
Keith
Need to see it with a hand lens to be fair, but i think it looks a bit lobster like.
Can you get any closer images? What does the end look like?
I saw Richards post on the other forum, his knowledge collecting from this level of chalk is far greater than mine(none) so i expect he will be right & they are bits of Pyritised Ammonite.
Cheers
Keith
macrocephale- Pre-cambrian
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Join date : 2011-07-20
Age : 31
Location : Avalonia
- Post n°4
Re: Chalk Fossil ID
It does look a bit like the inside of ammonite chambers to me, but beyond that I couldn't guess
ryanc- Present Day Rank
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Join date : 2013-01-01
- Post n°5
Re: Chalk Fossil ID
macrocephale wrote:It does look a bit like the inside of ammonite chambers to me, but beyond that I couldn't guess
You are right - its a little phosphatic preserved ammo chamber - you can even find ones that are molds of whole small ammonites in the chalk at that level but they tend to be incomplete.
Regards,
Ryan
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