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J. Stark

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This was found in a dry river bed inland from the west coast of California. Would appreciate some help IDing it. Could it be a scallop shell fossil? Thanks for the assist. 

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Tidgy's Dad Regular Member

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Looks more like some kind of oyster to me.

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Welcome to the Forum.

 

Give us a better, more specific locality and we may be able to determine the age of the oyster and what rock layer it came from.

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definitely an oyster, but if it is a petrified or modern one, not possible to say

My nose says: petrified one, but...

we need more details about the place you found it

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This looks very much like a thick shelled fossil Oyster I found up in the Los Padres Mountains.  Probably Miocene and some of the known species in that area include Ostrea Howelli or one of the Pycnodonte.

 

I'll post it on here soon with a batch of other stuff I found up in that canyon.  Here is my record of it on iNaturalist.

 

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105119449

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