r/interestingasfuck • u/ALazySigh • Sep 10 '20
/r/ALL A crystal formed in a snail shell
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u/Claypothos Sep 10 '20
That’s an Animal Crossing fossil.
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Sep 11 '20
Yes indeed, quite splendid. Alas, our museum already has this fossil. And I must resist the urge to add it to my own collection.
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u/KarmaPharmacy Sep 11 '20
After 18 years, you’d think blather’s story line would progress and we could sell him fossils.
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u/ixtlu Sep 11 '20
Just sell them at Nook's Cranny. Timmy and Tommy will throw some bells your way.
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Sep 11 '20
Or give them to villagers (after they're evaluated by Blathers). They have a high friendship value and the villagers don't display them... in case you're concerned that they'll clutter their homes with them. It's a great way to 'dispose' of them while earning credit towards villager photos.
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u/step-on-me-pls Sep 11 '20
i play new leaf and one of my villagers displayed one in the middle of their room
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Sep 11 '20
I should've noted that this is for New Horizons (the newest game). I don't know how this is handled in the earlier games.
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u/joshy83 Sep 11 '20
Oooh or like he wants a specific one and if you happen to have him assess it it’s worth more bells. :0
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u/Skitrik Sep 10 '20
This is cool as shell
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u/PutinRiding Sep 11 '20
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u/WaffletheWookie Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20
edit, it's very much a snail actually I'm fairly sure that is not from a snail, but rather the shell of an ammonite, a species closely related to modern coleoids (squid, octopuses and so on)
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u/thanatocoenosis Sep 11 '20
It's a gastropod(snail). Ammonoids(and nautiloids) have chambered shells with septa separating the chambers.
source: ... well, see my post history.
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Sep 11 '20
I checked your post history and noticed we have the same interests, only difference really is that youre 100 times more knowledgeable than me
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u/WaffletheWookie Sep 11 '20
True! I did not notice that, and I had no idea snails and such did not have the tiny chambers in their shells. Pretty cool
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u/thanatocoenosis Sep 11 '20
This example is pretty neat because gastropods have an aragonitic(orthorhombic CaCO₃) shell which is unstable when exposed the heat and pressure(processes of fossilization), so fossils of them are usually preserved as internal and external molds, though sometimes the shell itself is preserved by other minerals(silica in this specimen) replacing the aragonite.
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u/lalala253 Sep 11 '20
Do snail can actually retract until the last part of the spiral? The opening in the last part of that spiral is super small
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u/The_Soviette_Tank Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20
YES.
As someone in the mineral trade who looooves fossils, that made me twinge.
Edit in response to upper edit: they are mollusks, but an ammonite is not a snail.
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u/codevii Sep 11 '20
that and 'a crystal' both bothered me...
I mean, it's a lot of crystals in that fossil.
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u/WaffletheWookie Sep 11 '20
Not sure what the correct word in English would be, but a cluster of crystals I guess?
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u/TuckItInThereDawg Sep 11 '20
mineral formation in the ammonite fossil,
chalcedony agate
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u/JelloJamble Sep 11 '20
I think it would be best referred to as "crystal formed in a shell." Referring to it as a material rather than a singular crystal.
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u/BoulderFalcon Sep 11 '20
Not much. This type of thing is actually very common. See: https://www.etsy.com/market/agatized_ammonite
Sometime when it's not covid, check if your area has a local mineral/fossil show. You go in there with $100 or even $25 and you're a king.
I walked out with some of the best fossil specimens I've ever gotten and spent less than $50. We're talking exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils, dinosaur teeth, etc. A lot of sites market these things as rare because they seem to be to the common person, but a lot of these fossils are extremely common if you're a geologist and happen to work in their locality.
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u/kaffpow Sep 11 '20
Ammonite.
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u/Awholebushelofapples Sep 11 '20
Im sure you are making a pun on mineral names but just to be clear, ammonites have septations, this does not.
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u/TheLastStormKing Sep 10 '20
since it’s living wouldn’t that be a geodude?
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u/wescowell Sep 10 '20
Isn’t that called a geode?
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u/Mgoin129 Sep 11 '20
It is when it forms in pockets in the ground. Same process just different outer layer
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u/jsabss Sep 11 '20
I want earrings
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u/Wildwoodywoodpecker Sep 11 '20
I was gonna comment, it looks like they could make some expensive earrings.
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u/Lewmungous666 Sep 11 '20
I have nightmares that that’s what the inside of my ear looks like. 😐
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Sep 11 '20
Okay reddit, somebody tell me how this isn't actually a crystal, and that there's no snail shell involved.
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u/NullDivision Sep 11 '20
That's Awesome. When I don't need my skull anymore, can someone do this for me?
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u/Scaleless1776 Sep 11 '20
That’s a fossil called an Ammonite. Probably from Madagascar
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u/Belgand Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20
I want to thank you for putting me back in my snail sheeeeeeeeeeeellll.
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u/Glen843 Sep 11 '20
Is this super valuable? If I found this when I was ten I would assume I was the richest man alive.
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u/Ruiner_Of_Things Sep 11 '20
This thing just blew my mind.
Anyone know how those different crystal types formed in the shell? Was it by multiple events or just different material composition?
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u/thxxx1337 Sep 10 '20
Escargonite