Tail? Leaf?

by Andree de Jong
(Spain, Almanzora Valley)

Next to my house is an old riverbed, I love to go looking for special stones/fossils and found this.
I tried to find anything that is looking a bit like that, but no.
So I would be very pleased if you could help me.

Comments for Tail? Leaf?

Click here to add your own comments

Rudist Bivalve
by: Michael

Difficult to be sure, but this might well be a piece of a Rudist bivalve - an offshoot of the Oyster family, which lived in the more southern climes during the latest Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. They had one horn-shaped valve, like an ice-cream cone, and a small valve on the top. Rudists could form sea-floor colonies or even reefs, rather like corals, but they were unrelated, being molluscs.

fossil from Almanzora, Spain
by: Douglas

Andree,

I have also come up with nothing similar to your find.

I did find some reference to mollusk fossils in that area but this does not look like mollusk to me.

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to fossil-identification.

Check out some of the Educational Materials for sale on our sister site fossilicious.com.

Children's Books on Fossils and Geologic Time

Fossil Collections

Share this page:

What’s this?

Facebook Twitter

Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

Click on the HTML link code below.
Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.