LanceH Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Tell me this is a true jellyfish impression. Found this today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 You are lucky, just may be a certain shade of green.... Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoRon Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 It looks sort of like a Kirklandia texana with some erosion of the marginal lobes to me, but I'm on the east coast so what do I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 To me, the impressions look too sharp-angled to have been made by such a soft-bodied creature. Are jellies known from that formation? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 It's from a fine sandy-limey layer in the mostly clay Pawpaw formation. I think this is also the same layer that produces starfish and brittle star fossils. I was told jellyfish impressions are known from the formation but have I no documentation. To me, the impressions look too sharp-angled to have been made by such a soft-bodied creature.Are jellies known from that formation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micropterus101 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Purely an unscientific and unedumacated guess but it looks like an impression of the bottom of a Sea urchin with the big clublike spines. Was it just laying on top so someone could have made off with the goods before you got there? fossil crabs website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkfoam Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Lance Congratulations, it looks like a medusa to me. And it does look like the Kirklandia texana. Really nice specimen. JKFoam The Eocene is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micropterus101 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Ok , what he said heres a some pics and a nice pdf on them. Nice specimen ya found there! old jellyfish stuff paper thing info or is it from a burrow? Only the organism it came from knows for sure fossil crabs website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 Awesome!! Thanks for the fantastic PDF! Ok , what he said heres a some pics and a nice pdf on them. Nice specimen ya found there!old jellyfish stuff paper thing info or is it from a burrow? Only the organism it came from knows for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Awsome is right! Do the Jellyfish Dance, Lance! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 The paper makes a good case for them actually being some sort of "worm" burrow. The worm dug down and mined little pockets in a circle, dug down more, made more pockets, etc. Here's a graphic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 That is cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Way cool find!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 For now I got it under jellyfish on my website BUT with the alternate explanation also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Never seen anything like it, although I think it is quite interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Very cool find! I took this pic in Burkett Tx. It's on display in someones front yard. There is a creek nearby that I've been meaning to poke around in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Good show Old Chap! You are one up on me with Kirklandia texana. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy1971 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 WOW Lance! That is an AWESOME find! congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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