fossils

[the_hefay]

I found a couple of fossils Saturday on a hike in the mountains. Two are obviously a shellfish. The other I'm not really sure about, but it has an interesting little spiral something in it.

[sury]

Very interesting, Jeff. Thanks for sharing. Amazing, stuff, the history of nature.

Sury

[the_hefay]

Thanks Sury. It was pretty fascinating. I'm sure the light circular patches next to the clam shell are identifiable as something to someone that studies fossils.

[Pitter]

Amazing that Wyoming was under water at one time. Those shells are probably in the neighborhood of three hundred million years old. Don't know much about them really but I love fossils. Thanks for posting them.

[the_hefay]

I'm glad you like them. Of course there are those of us that would say it was more like 4,000 years but I suppose this is hardly the forum for a creation/evolution debate.

[aster]

Lucky finds, Jeff.
Congratulations! Always exciting to find something that pertains to the evolvement of nature and geographical shifts pointing to our Earth's history.

Thanks for sharing,
Yildiz

[the_hefay]

Thanks Aster. You know, as I'm looking at the two pictures of the shells. I think maybe it's the same fossil. The one shell is concave the other convex. If you look at the lighter colored roundish spots around the shells, they appear to be mirror images. I now want to go back and see if the two rocks fit together. They were actually lying quite close together when we found them.

[the_hefay]

Yes, they are. In the first photo it's easy to see a very much smaller shell or portion of shell a little to the left of the big shell. This can also be seen in the second photo to the right. It is in the same position, just mirrored. I wish I would've noticed this at the time.

[aster]

Good work, Jeff. : )

I guess that's what photography does to an enthusiast; you learn to examine the subject deeper and deeper, and, hence find out more about one's past related to those objects. Everything is related to one an other one way or an other. Once where there was the sea, now lies barren rock faces... : ) One learns to appreciate one's surroundings.

Yildiz