look what i found in my garden!

[subdude67]

yesterday i was doing some work in my garden and i found this fossilized shell. fossils are found often on the coast but it is nice to dig a hole find your own

tridanca shells are still very common in moderate and tropical waters around the world but look at the size of the modern one at the bottom of the image.

[Phalex]

That thing is HUGE! The area I'm in was covered by an inland sea at one time, but I've only ever found coral or petoskey stones (Basically a whole bunch of little fossil shells all stuck together.)

Whatcha gonna do with it?

[Ursus Tyrannus]

That is cool!

The house I grew up in was located on what was the original town dump and then later the local farrier. Every spring it was fun to see what came up when we tilled the garden. Lots of old bottles, we had close to a hundred we eventually sold to buy a canoe. Every so often the lawnmower would kick up a square nail, I remember one stuck in my dads leg and it scared the heck out of me to see all that blood with his pants literally nailed to his shin.
But we never found any fossils like that! Just some jelly fish and crab imprints in shale.

[Big_Daddy]

Nice!

I'd love to find something like that in my yard. The Albertan Badlands are a couple hundred kilometers south, but you never what you might find!

[MJ5150]

You might want to check with Joe Dirt on the authenticity of your find.

-Mike

[subdude67]

the whole of east africa's low coast was once covered by about 15 meters of ocean and was a coral reef.
there is no doubt that it is a real fossil, there is a cement factory nearby, they have specimen twice this size all over the place. the wall around our garden is made entirely out of fossilized coral too.
but it is still a big clam and i'm really happy with the find.
i will post a pic once i have scrubbed it and put it in a nice place.

[madmatt]

This reminds me of Stephen King's Creepshow where he digs up a meteorite.
Classic flik.

[Starrchild]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

You might want to check with Joe Dirt on the authenticity of your find.

-Mike

LOL

[pedroims]

that's cool man, I remember when I found a seahorse fossil in my home city, I found it in a mountain, hundreds miles from the ocean and actually it was in the middle of a desert, I always think about it and can not imagine that probably millions years ago my city used to be an ocean.

[Fassa Albrecht]

*grabs archaeology tools*

I love finding this kind of stuff. Living in an area which is full of coal deposits, it's pretty easy to find ammonites, fossil fish and small animals.

[CapnSev]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

You might want to check with Joe Dirt on the authenticity of your find.

-Mike

That's a space peanut!

[MJ5150]

No, I'm afraid not. That's just a big ol' chunk of frozen poopy.

-Bert

[FL Knifemaker]

So.............

Raw on the half shell or fried???

[Skitch it!]

Nice find there, quite a size. I did have a little collection of fossils back in the day, mostly ammonites and such. The better ones were fossilized sea urchins, amazing amount of detail considering, interesting stuff.

A friend found what he thought to be some carved ancient stone once while mountain walking and excitedly displayed it to his neighbors, but he'd never seen a horse salt lick before. He didn't live that one down for weeks.

[jonathan_matos5]

i was expecting something living not something that has been dead for sooooooo long!

last time i was digging in a garden i accidentally halfed a garden snake. i didn't see it until after i drove my shovel into the dirt through the snake.