Tuesday, November 2, 2010

a paleontology post: mystery fossil



The mystery concerns the two dark linear objects in the center of the photo. They are each slightly more than half a centimeter long. They are Chesterian (Mississippian, lower Carboniferous) & were collected from a tropical carbonate platform in northwestern Alabama, USA.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are shell-crushing shark teeth.

Dan Phelps

Anonymous said...

Clearly, those are slug larvae from the planetoids around Beta Persei, a.k.a. the Demon Star. Do not put water on them.