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Post by vallery on Dec 9, 2011 9:02:23 GMT
Hi coyote here are those snail fossils I was telling you about, finally got this camera to work. So I hope my attachment of the photos worked out on this forum. Let me Know. Thanks Vallery Attachments:
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foghog
Achatina immaculata
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Post by foghog on Dec 9, 2011 16:52:58 GMT
neat. thanks for showing them.
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Post by Greta on Dec 9, 2011 19:14:48 GMT
They are awesome really nice shell!!
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Post by vallery on Dec 9, 2011 21:54:33 GMT
Thanks foghog. Thanks Greta.
Those fossils were given to me as gifts. I was also given a few shark teeth as well one of them is huge.There is a place close by where I go fossil hunting, only I have never found a snail fossil there yet, just indents of vegetation and some clam shells and some really wierd fossils like some sort of large cray fish. I have been digging on the lowest level of this area, It is slate rock, and the cliff goes up really, really high so it facinates me that at one time the water was so high in that area. Where I dig must be the oldest area, if I could I would love to get up further on this cliff to see what I could find but it would be impossible. If I did find a snail fossil there it would have to be a water snail. It is right near the end of the Humber River where the Humber goes into Lake Ontario here in Toronto and there is only a certian time of year that the water is low enough to fossil hunt. It's great fun.
Thanks for checking these out and commenting
Vallery
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Dec 9, 2011 22:38:22 GMT
Wow, those are extremely cool!  |
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Post by vallery on Dec 10, 2011 1:14:57 GMT
Thanks coyote. I am glad I figured out the camera settings now I can take some pictures of my snails and post them.
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4sticks
Archachatina marginata
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Post by 4sticks on Dec 11, 2011 17:37:08 GMT
wow these are lovely! when i was in morocco, in western sahara, there were fossils everywhere! nomads running after us trying to sell us fossils, even the bathrooms at the hotel were decorated with fossils! obviously most of them were fake (one nomad told me that they make them themselves in a workshop), but i think its great the people there are really into them here is a picture of a huge one! u can see my shadow and compare hehe fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/223304_2078674369229_1316109575_32486565_6116465_n.jpg |
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Dec 11, 2011 23:25:14 GMT
That's cool. It looks like it's terra cotta.
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forca
Archachatina marginata
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Post by forca on Dec 11, 2011 23:32:28 GMT
ahh i want!
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Post by brunni on Dec 12, 2011 10:26:29 GMT
Vallery's photo are of real fossils ( ammonites ) but 4sticks pic is not of a real mollusk. It was probably man-made as a tourist attraction, although there are a large number of genuine fossils to be found in Morocco and neighboring Western Sahara. Today the Nautilus is the only remaining living relative of the Ammonites, and their existence s threatened by over-fishing ( mostly used in jewelry trade ). 
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Post by axoloa on Dec 12, 2011 10:57:35 GMT
Those are great fossils Valerie, realy pretty and great condition  I can imagine these were not cheap? It would be quiet amazing to dig a fossil like that up dont you think 4sticks, your fossil is pretty cool to unfortunatly I much preffer the real thing, but yours is certainly a great work of art |
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4sticks
Archachatina marginata
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Post by 4sticks on Dec 12, 2011 22:49:14 GMT
i can assure you guys it was a man made one there was one exactly the same right next to it |
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Post by axoloa on Dec 12, 2011 23:06:19 GMT
i can assure you guys it was a man made one there was one exactly the same right next to it Bet theyd look great up against the garden wall or hanging next to the window as a garden orniment |
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Post by brunni on Dec 13, 2011 11:49:47 GMT
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Post by vallery on Dec 13, 2011 15:37:53 GMT
Hi Everyone,
Thank you all for checking out my fossils and giving me informatgion on them as well. Thanks Brunni I will definitley check out those sites. To cold here now to dig but I'll be digging in eary fall next year. Im also a bottle digger, finding old farm sites up north and digging for antique bottles. I have found some very beautiful ones. Dog in my past life? Ha! Ha!
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Post by vallery on Apr 5, 2012 12:36:08 GMT
Hi Brunni,
I finally went onto the fossil forum the site that you left for me. Thank you Wow! it is a great site. They have gallerys instead picture threads. I was so jealous of all of their fossils. One gallery was all snails fossils it was really cool. Thank you for recomending that site. Everyone should check it out. Vallery
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I can imagine these were not cheap? It would be quiet amazing to dig a fossil like that up dont you think 