Quoting Avril <[log in to unmask]>:
> Here is another Mystery page for a fossil from the UK.
> http://www.manandmollusc.net/Mystery_shell_pages/Georgia-mystery.html
>
> Busy night, I'm playing catch-up.
>
> Thanks everyone for any and all help.
>
> Avril Bourquin
>
http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/geology.htm
has a bit on the local geology; more could be found with further
searching.
Glaciation of the area means that there's a slight chance of almost
anything turning up as a bit of rock hauled in by a glacier. However,
much of the area is underlain by Jurassic rocks, and the specimen looks
like Hippopodium, a Jurassic-Cretaceous bivalve of somewhat uncertain
higher affinities (probably modiomorphoidean, which may relate to the
carditids and crassatellids).
--
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections Building
Department of Biological Sciences
Biodiversity and Systematics
University of Alabama, Box 870345
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0345 USA
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