Please Help Fossils from Northern Greece

[Supergraver]

Hi Casba,

The second picture and the last picture are no fossils, the have a name for it but that slipped my mind (I\'m sure one of the other forummembers knows what I mean).

Gr

Martijn

[Bewerkt door Supergraver op 16-04-2007 om 20:59 NL]

[mineraal0]

Do you mean dentrite Martijn?

[binbinneke]

I don\'t think that the fossil showed on the last photo is a dendrite. Dendrite doesn\'t look like a straight line. It\'s form is more like a plant. Maybe a close- up can bring us some more information...
gr. robin

[Bewerkt door binbinneke op 17-04-2007 om 19:23 NL]

[MarkW]

In the famous Solnhofen locality you also have a lot of dendrites, here is a Leptolepis sprattiformis from Solnhofen completely surrounded by dendrite
(iron-oxide)

These fossils are most likely also surrounded by dendrites, in this case it could be very interesting,

cheers,

Mark

[MarkW]

By the way, the second stone is covered with two fossils clearly visible a half rotten leaf and a twig.

[MarkW]

Fossil E is most definetly a branch.

[casba1]

Thanks everybody fro trying to help out. I figured out that Fossils C and D are most likely Lingula. If you have any opinion on that pls let me know.

Thanks again for your help.

[Frederik]

I disagree with that. Lingula is a brachiopod, while your fossil is clearly a bivalve (some sort of \'clam\' in common language).
The other two fossils might be plant remains, that\'s difficult to tell from these pictures.

@ MarkW: The correct determination is LeptolepIDES (common error)

[WiggyRamone]

fossils C & D look like Unionid mussels to me. would make sense if they were found in close proximity to fossil plant material as both are likely to be found in freshwater deposits