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FossilsLiban fossile trouvé dans une montagne

5th Dec 2024 22:56 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

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J'aurais trouvé ce fossile dans la nature près d'une rivière j'ai voulu le partager avec vous. En faite je l'ai fais expertisé au musée d'oxford. Museum D'histoire naturelle. Qui m'ont donné l'année de ce fossile. 149000000 d'années. Merci.

5th Dec 2024 22:59 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

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Agrandissement de la main. 

5th Dec 2024 23:09 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

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Dear Mteini Nabil,

Many thanks for sending photographs of your specimen to the museum for identification.

Your specimen is a fragment of a fossil bivalve, a mollusc that has a laterally compressed calcified exoskeleton consisting of a hinged pair of valves. The vertical lines on the rock are actually the radial ribs of the bivalve, which ornament the exterior of the shell. Although the geology of Lebanon is currently poorly studied, your specimen is likely from the Bikfaya Formation, which is comprised of limestone, and is from the Late Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian stages of the Jurassic Period. The means that your fossil is around 149 million years old!

Great find!

Best wishes, 
Emily 

 

6th Dec 2024 14:26 UTCWayne Corwin 🌟

Why do you say "Hand enlargement." ?
The Museum says "The vertical lines on the rock are actually the radial ribs of the bivalve."  

6th Dec 2024 15:16 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

MR Wayne je voulais dire que moi j'ai du agrandire la photo pour que je puisse mieux voir les details de la main et faire profiter d'autres personnes qui aimerons voir plus grand. 

12th Mar 2025 23:48 UTCGiles Peatfield

Well, it really does look remarkably like a skeletal hand, doesn't it?  I think it was just a shorthand way of describing the particular part of the specimen.  

13th Mar 2025 11:11 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

Hello Mr. Gilles, yes indeed it is a fossil that I found in a river and the hand, I enlarged it with the camera to be able to see the hand a little better. 

13th Mar 2025 15:31 UTCGiles Peatfield

That's what I suspected - thank you.  By the way, my name is spelled Giles, not Gilles - it's a common mistake, especially by French speakers.  The name is an English one, in my case a family name.  Certainly no offense - just thought I would point it out.

Giles

13th Mar 2025 15:50 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

I'm sorry, I'll be careful next time. 

13th Mar 2025 16:17 UTCGiles Peatfield

No problem at all.  Best regards.

13th Mar 2025 16:42 UTCNabil Georges Mteini OP

Thank you very much.🙏
 
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