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Fossilized Shells or Just Another Pretty Face? Part One...

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This was a shell I was certain was ancient... maybe older than me (I'm a "mid-century"- in housing, we're very popular these days!)

Lots of worm activity, but WTF is this?!  (Was that rated G or PG-13?  OMG!  TOTALLY?!)

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Tube worms devastating oyster?

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worn oyster

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Dang....  what can cause a shell to become misshapen like this (I have others without anything except “leaning to the right or the left” ...  another “popcorner” Innocentx!)

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Indeed a modern, sea-worn shell, which was destroyed by tube worms or sponges. Not a fossil, but still cool!

 

By the way, it's not an oyster: instead it looks much more like a common slipper shell, Crepidula fornicata.

Which is actually a gastropod, and not a bivalve. 

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"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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