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Re: Fossil identification

Posted by Peter on October 08, 1998 at 15:22:46:

In Reply to: Fossil identification posted by Claire Milne on September 29, 1998 at 12:28:57:

Some info on your fossil:

From:

Jacob Steven Benner
Organization: University of Utah, College of Mines and Earth Sciences

Peter,

A colleague of mine, Dr. Gibert, seems to have the opinion that the mystery specimen is a rudist --which is a reef-building mollusk from the Mesozoic.

I hope this helps.

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Another one, that does not agree...

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Mike Everhart
Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
To: Jacob Steven Benner

Jacob,

It's difficult to tell from the picture, but it doesn't look like the rudists (Durania maxima) from the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk (Coniacian). See a photo on the webpage at: http://www2.southwind.net/~mjever/page3.html (longer load time)

or direct at: http://www2.southwind.net/~mjever/durania2.jpg (single .jpg)

Of course, Rudists come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and don't look like anything else, either.

Good luck on the ID.

Mike Everhart
Oceans of Kansas Paleontology


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I have made a link to Mike's rudist image below. Lets not give up hope yet.

Peter


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