+- Forums SEASHELL-COLLECTOR (http://forum.seashell-collector.com)
+-- Forum: Seashell Collector's Forum (http://forum.seashell-collector.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: Shells identification Help (http://forum.seashell-collector.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=5)
+--- Thread: Strange sea biscuit found on North Carolina Coast… What is it? (/showthread.php?tid=12875)
Strange sea biscuit found on North Carolina Coast… What is it? - ShellSeeker9 - 05-18-2014
[attachment=155][attachment=156][attachment=157]Can anyone help me identify this shell? It looks like a sea biscuit of some sort, but the pattern does not match anything else I've seen on the internet. I also found a fragment of a similar shell nearby (to the right in the first pic). Thanks so much for your help!
RE: Strange sea biscuit found on North Carolina Coast… What is it? - paul monfils - 05-18-2014
It's a species of Echinocardium, but there are a lot of similar species, and I'm no expert on echinoderms. It looks a lot like E. fenauxi, but as far as I know that species lives on the other side of the Atlantic.
http://www.echinoids.nl/Echinoids/Echinocardium-fenauxi/Echinocardium-fenauxi.htm
RE: Strange sea biscuit found on North Carolina Coast… What is it? - ShellSeeker9 - 05-19-2014
Thank you for your information! We believe it to be the E.fenauxi. It being found on the east coast in North Carolina, do you know of anywhere we could report our rare finding?
We are so excited to have found the specimens we have.
Thanks
RE: Strange sea biscuit found on North Carolina Coast… What is it? - paul monfils - 05-19-2014
Apparently I was incorrect about Echinocardium fenauxi occurring only in the eastern Atlantic. Here's a record of a specimen in the Smithsonian that was collected off North Carolina:
http://collections.si.edu/search/record/nmnhinvertebratezoology_345296
Not too surprising. There are a number of mollusk species which likewise occur on both sides of the Atlantic.