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Delwin Glasner posted a new specimen. 4 years, 4 months ago
4 years, 4 months ago4 years, 4 months agoDelwin Glasner has contributed specimen mFeM 62269 to myFOSSIL!
Delwin Glasner posted a new specimen. 4 years, 4 months ago
Delwin Glasner has contributed specimen mFeM 62269 to myFOSSIL!
I know this is a super tiny specimen, but is there any way you could get an even closer shot? Hopefully we can ID this little guy a little closer that way. This is the coolest specimen – I have such a soft spot for arthropods.
I’ll see what I can do.
Added a closer photo. Might be able to grind down the middle. one end looks like the leg stubs. At first I thought it was a silverfish that had died on my rock and tried to clean it off.
So cool – let me do some searching and see if I can figure out what it is; it almost appears to be a weird mineral growth – I’ll also tag in @Mackenzie-Smith, @Cameron-Muskelly, and @jbauer.
Could it be a tummy worm? I have seen something like it in my Mazon Creek collection from pit 11
@delwin-glasner I’m wondering if it could be the longitudinal section of a bryozoan?
Oh! Interesting. That would explain some of the regularity.
I’m starting to think that this may be a coral?
Will grind and polish and add additional photos then.
That would be very helpful! Thank you!!
I agree with @mackenzie-smith – it looks to be a cross section of a bryozoan or coral. I don’t know enough to really narrow it down. I would guess coral just because I’ve been looking at some thin sections that are similar but bryozoans can certainly look very similar.
I tried to grind and polish down a little deeper in the middle but nothing showed up. Will take a look for a match in corals and bryozoans.
Thanks