Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
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Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
Hi everyone!
I'm kinda new here, but I found this fossil, and I really don't know anything about it. Although I think it might be some kind of shell.
I'm doing my endwork for highschool next year on fossils, and hope you can help me out with identifying this one.
Here's the info I have:
Found in: Møn, Denmark.
I found it on the rock beach along one of the famous chalk-cliffs.
I hope you know more than I do!
Emausaurus.
I'm kinda new here, but I found this fossil, and I really don't know anything about it. Although I think it might be some kind of shell.
I'm doing my endwork for highschool next year on fossils, and hope you can help me out with identifying this one.
Here's the info I have:
Found in: Møn, Denmark.
I found it on the rock beach along one of the famous chalk-cliffs.
I hope you know more than I do!
Emausaurus.
One small step for a Diplodocus, one giant leap
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- Emausaurus
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
Hi!
I just realized I forgot to put in the foto,
So here it is, sorry!
One small step for a Diplodocus, one giant leap
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
Hello, and welkom on this forum!
That`s funny!
Looks like a small facial picture of a man with a very big beard...
But it is most probably a coral or a barnacle of wich one half has been weathered away bij wave action.
greetings, Bert
[Bewerkt door Elbert op 05-07-2017 om 18:06 NL]
That`s funny!
Looks like a small facial picture of a man with a very big beard...
But it is most probably a coral or a barnacle of wich one half has been weathered away bij wave action.
greetings, Bert
[Bewerkt door Elbert op 05-07-2017 om 18:06 NL]
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
First of all: welcome to the form, Emausaurus!
I am not entirely sure about the identification by Elbert. Could you perhaps take a close-up of this fossil. It looks really interesting!
Cheers,
Johan
I am not entirely sure about the identification by Elbert. Could you perhaps take a close-up of this fossil. It looks really interesting!
Cheers,
Johan
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Re: Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
To me as well. But further statements can only be done on the basis of close-up pictures.Spongebob schreef:
Looks like a Silurian limestone with a solitary coral to me.
Best wishes,
Oliver
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
Hi!
Thanks for replying!
I think a coral is indeed a good guess,
Here's another more detailed picture (I hope).
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
It is a cross section of a coral. The left image shows almost your exact cross section.
I cant help you to the exact species but maybe others can.
Regards,
Pim
[Bewerkt door Masterofearth op 06-07-2017 om 09:52 NL]
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
Thank you!
this is really a great help.
So it is a coral, all that's left now is to find out what kind of stone it's in.
this is really a great help.
So it is a coral, all that's left now is to find out what kind of stone it's in.
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Re: Unknown fossil found in Denmark.
The exact type of rock is very hard to tell from pictures because important details are missing in almost every photograph. But the fossil being a coral makes limestone a more likely contender, although corals can be found in other rocks as well sometimes. Estimation of its age is quite difficult because you have a pebble that is not found "in situ" (in it's original locality). Type and color of the rock and the fossil in the rock might bring you closer to where it came from and its age, but I don't know enough about the geology in Denmark to help you with this.
Cheers,
Pim
Cheers,
Pim