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Post by marsupial on Jun 19, 2018 17:30:22 GMT 5
Today, I just bought a fossil from an antique shop. It resembled a tadpole shrimp except that it was around the size of a horseshoe crab. This fossil had a long sort of slender shell and a short tail like a tadpole shrimp. I'm hoping that one of you could identify it. Right now I could not take a picture of the fossil but I will very soon.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 21, 2018 9:46:22 GMT 5
Sure, let's see it once you have the time. Crustaceans are out of my semblance of a field of expertise, though.
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Post by marsupial on Jun 24, 2018 14:50:10 GMT 5
Ok, I have a picture of it but I do not know how to post it here.
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Post by marsupial on Jun 24, 2018 15:10:07 GMT 5
Can anyone see the picture?
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 24, 2018 19:28:02 GMT 5
I can’t see it at the moment. I'll usually just email the photo to myself from my mobile phone, download the image, put it in my desktop, and then upload it to an image hosting site like Tinypic. Then you can just upload it to a forum from there. Attachments:
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Post by marsupial on Jun 25, 2018 9:14:58 GMT 5
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Post by theropod on Jun 25, 2018 17:47:09 GMT 5
To me that looks more like an oyster shell, or possibly part of a rudist, but I really can’t tell for sure from that photo. What about it reminds you of a tadpole shrimp?
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Post by marsupial on Jun 25, 2018 19:20:29 GMT 5
To me that looks more like an oyster shell, or possibly part of a rudist, but I really can’t tell for sure from that photo. What about it reminds you of a tadpole shrimp? Well, the front of it looks like a shell that's sort of elongated and the back of it looks like a tail. Well, maybe you can't really see the depth from that picture. I'll put more pictures tomorrow. |
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Post by marsupial on Jun 26, 2018 13:14:58 GMT 5
Ok, so here are more pictures contained in two documents. |
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Post by theropod on Jun 26, 2018 23:48:13 GMT 5
Still looks a lot like a bivalve shell to me, the left part I looks like the pearly interior, the right part (what you think is a tail) looks a bit weird, but not like an arthropod tail, and some ostreids and rudists do have pretty weird shapes. Any other opinions? Did it come with any information on the locality where it was collected?
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Post by marsupial on Jun 27, 2018 7:09:09 GMT 5
Still looks a lot like a bivalve shell to me, the left part I looks like the pearly interior, the right part (what you think is a tail) looks a bit weird, but not like an arthropod tail, and some ostreids and rudists do have pretty weird shapes. Any other opinions? Did it come with any information on the locality where it was collected? Well, I do not know where it was captured and neither did the guy who sold it. But, i bought it in Solo, Central Java. |
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