The Daily Fossil Record

[Bobby Rico]

That’s it for and today thanks for spending time looking at my collection. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. 
 

Cheers Bobby 

My finest

Cnemidopyge Nuda Ordovician. Llandrindod Wells, Wales.

Edited August 6, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Another just pot luck choice from my collection 

 

Sorthoceras sociale (fossil nautiloid) (Elgin Member, Maquoketa Formation, Upper Ordovician; Graf, Iowa, USA)

Isorthoceras sociale (Hall in Miller, 1877) - fossil nautiloid from the Ordovician of Iowa, USA.

 

I just read that this species is also known as Dolorthoceras sociale.
 

This beauty was given to me by the legendary

@minnbuckeye

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[minnbuckeye]

Glad your wife didn't make you put it in the garbage. Give her my best wishes. 

 

Mike

[Bobby Rico]

3 minutes ago, minnbuckeye said:

Glad your wife didn't make you put it in the garbage. Give her my best wishes

Haha not garbage but treasure. Give your wife our best .

 

cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Nummulites laevigatus,

Palaeogene sediments, which comprise the  Bracklesham Group (Eocene). 46 million years old.
 

Nummulites laevigatus (named from the Latin for “small coin”). These fossils are the shells of foraminifera – single-celled organisms that are normally microscopic in size and build themselves elaborate shells of calcium carbonate 

[Bobby Rico]

More from Bracklesham Bay.

Lutetian, Eocene - Upper Bracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England 
 

Striatolamia Sp

[Bobby Rico]

Ok I just ID this damaged vertebra , I found this in the 90s. 
 

Palaeophis typhaeus

Palaeophis was a large, aquatic snake . 
 

Bracklesham Bay.

Lutetian, Eocene - UpperBracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England

 

 

Edited August 8, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

A little repair to this Palaeophis typhaeus vertebra.

Edited August 18, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Tidgy's Dad]

At the risk of repeating myself, there are some lovely specimens there, Bobby. 

Love the  Cedaria in particular and the Bracklesham stuff brings back fond memories, 

Edited August 18, 2023 by Tidgy's Dad

[Yoda]

@Bobby Rico

 

Very nice. 

 

I am fascinated by extant snakes. 

And have added a few vertebrae to my collection. Will be posting them on my thread in due course

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

At the risk of repeating myself

Thanks Adam you’re not repeating yourself just restoring what has gone missing from my thread.
 

Cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, Yoda said:

I am fascinated by extant snakes.

Found in the 1990’s I have a lot of Eocene stuff that’s been boxed up for years. I am just sorting it out now. Cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Just fun a set of nesting dolls of Volutospina luctator

Middle Barton Beds. The small fossil I have on display is here. 
 

Edited August 18, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[grandpa]

Still loving those gastropods of the Eocene you've collected!

[Bobby Rico]

32 minutes ago, grandpa said:

Still loving those gastropods of the Eocene you've collected!

Thank you grandpa I did lose some posts in the “fossil forum triangle “ I will repost them soon.   Cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Fruit, Wetherellia Dixoni, Selsey area Sussex in (found 1990) Eocene epoc

[Bobby Rico]

This is a pretty nice Neoathleta mutatus, Upper Bracklesham Beds , New Forest. 

[Bobby Rico]

Taken with a Macro lens 8mm. Volutocorbis lima, New Forest. Very rare

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Clavilithes scalaris
(Lamarck 1816) 

 

Middle -Upper  Barton Beds. Sg

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Myliobatis dixoni
Eagle Ray dentitions. 

Bracklesham Bay.

Lutetian, Eocene - UpperBracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England

[Bobby Rico]

Crenaturricula attenuata 

 

Bracklesham Beds ,Eocene epoc

Edited August 21, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Bit ugly but I quite like them. Eocene epoch

Xenophora schroeteri
(Gmelin 1791)

 

Upper  Barton Beds. Sg

[Bobby Rico]

?Eoconus edwardsi
Upper Bracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England

 

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Ray tail-spine 
Bracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

 Admetula ytenensis

Upper Bracklesham Beds, Hampshire, England. 

 

A sturdy shell usually found intact. 10mm juveniles. 

 

Edited August 24, 2023 by Bobby Rico