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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on November 03, 2015, 01:36:50 am

Title: Shell ID
Post by: Zuma on November 03, 2015, 01:36:50 am

A real neat friend of mine sent me a piece of a whorl
shell (I think). It seems to have a lot of sand polish.
He said it's from the ocean side of Cape Hatteras.
It's very large so I thought it may be a Miocene fossil.
If it was whole it would be much bigger than my Florida
 keys Queen Conchs,
Any ideas?
Thanks Zuma
Oh btw he thought it would be cool to etch it like the mound
builders did with there shells. It would be a good Primitive
Skill project. 

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: Pat B on November 03, 2015, 08:36:32 am

Fan shell of some sort.

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: swamp monkey on November 04, 2015, 09:38:18 pm

I don't know enough to get you to species, but it looks like a type of whelk.  Much of the whorl is missing and it is from a large specimen.

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: stickbender on November 05, 2015, 01:14:35 am

  I agree with Swamp Monkey, a Whelk, or Horse Conch.
  When My Brother was alive, he and his Wife used to do a lot of shell diving, in the Bahamas, and outer islands.
                                    Wayne

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: Zuma on November 05, 2015, 08:43:29 am

Thanks gents,
I agree with welk. And the large size.
 I have lots of them recent and fossil.
If you look at the left hand side/end you
 can see that there is a lot of shell missing
(length and width) I guess it's the size that
really has me baffeled. Well for Hatteras anyway.
Zuma

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: caveman2533 on November 06, 2015, 06:42:23 am

I was down there in the spring of the year and there are some very large welks in the water. Water was rough and cold and they were rolling  just at the wave breaks and we could not get to them.

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: Zuma on November 06, 2015, 08:43:37 am

Quote from: caveman2533 on November 06, 2015, 06:42:23 am

I was down there in the spring of the year and there are some very large welks in the water. Water was rough and cold and they were rolling  just at the wave breaks and we could not get to them.

Great!  thanks Steve :)
I won't think of it as a fossil any more.
Time to get it etched.
Zuma
PS and now I owe a mole hide to Tom. :embarassed:

Title: Re: Shell ID
Post by: Zuma on November 09, 2015, 02:06:14 pm

Swampy
I took your advice. Here is what I got.
If things go well I'll post it in P S
Thanks alot Zuma :)