Bivalve

A beautiful pecten clam! One of my favorites 😉

Macrostrat (https://macrostrat.org/map/#/z=8.2/x=35.0913/y=31.5119/bedrock/lines/) indicates the area around Jerusalem is Late Cretaceous but no formation name is given. If you haven’t already determined the name of the formation, that would be my first step. The coordinates you provided appear to be a residential area west of Jerusalem, so its…[Read more]

that’s super helpful! thank you @patrick-hsieh

You’re welcome! If that is helpful to you, then my only request is that you help us out by filling out the information fields to the best of your ability. You should be able to fill out the location (country, municipality) and field notes (collector, collection date, field notes) at the least.

Possibly, but it also looks like a bivalve so it’s hard to tell

It also looks more like a mold from a bivalve to me.

Echnoid? Something about that pattern is off for crinoid stems and horn corals

Yeah agreed. I think the dark spots are where the spines used to be.

Ammonite.

@daniel-park now that it was mentioned, I see the spiral of an ammonite. The dark spots are where the internal chambers were.

ammonite, definitely

Oh yeah I see now.

wow its so rare

@sonila-kaja ammonites are actually rather common, but an exciting find nonetheless.

Ammonite I have a few.

ammonite I’m pretty sure

duplicate of 92013

Some kind of gastropod?