Fossils

[dudeincolorado]

awww no you are not! positivity!

[Deeisenberg]

Look at the shape of the curve, in gryphaea it is level. However for exogyra the curl goes outwards hence exo = out gyra = wheel

[dudeincolorado]

OH ha ha that makes perfect sense ok so when im look at them form a birds eye view gryphae should just be like a column but exogyra should be a column but with more shell on the side. right? ok thank you so much!

[noob]

OH ha ha that makes perfect sense ok so when im look at them form a birds eye view gryphae should just be like a column but exogyra should be a column but with more shell on the side. right? ok thank you so much!

ummm cool but this is fosils (i think)

[noob]

wait that IS about fosils... O NO! I AM DOOMED TO LOESE (and fail spelling)

[Pleiades]

OH ha ha that makes perfect sense ok so when im look at them form a birds eye view gryphae should just be like a column but exogyra should be a column but with more shell on the side. right? ok thank you so much!

ummm cool but this is fosils (i think)

dudeincolorado was talking about fossils

[dudeincolorado]

yeah i was asking how to differentiate this and this turns out that the later one, it sticks out a little i know it wounds kinda sad but yeah im very socratic like that

[regu93]

anyone know anything about traissic-cretaceous and cypraea-genus?

[dudeincolorado]

umm cowry is the common name i know that much but i dont have my binder with me right now but google it there is always something did compute this skills just actually get used? freaky but google cowry shells and some thing should pop up

[Deeisenberg]

I respectfully disagree with you there Dudeincolorado. If you look up for information on cowry on Google, you will get information almost completely on the extant (modern) genus, and it's current members. The majority of the information would NOT be on fossil cypraea which is what you are really looking for. Cowry is indeed the common name, and you COULD search it on Google, however if you do so search fossil cowry, not just cowry. Otherwise the majority of the information you get will be only mildly useful.