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Chad Bruce posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoChad Bruce has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Chad Bruce posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app. 3 years, 8 months ago
Chad Bruce has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Hi there, @chad-bruce do you have a more specific location of where this was found? I believe that the age can (hesitantly) be identified as Ordovician. If you could also fill in the dimensions box that helps make it a research-grade specimen! @samantha-ocon may be able to help identify your possible trilobite!
Hi, @mackenzie-ross-2 and @Chad-Bruce! I think photos of other sides of the fossil would be useful here, but I do see how this could be a trilobite pygidum (butt).
Hi @mackenzie-ross-2 and @samantha-ocon, Thanks for getting back to me about the fossil. I unfortunately don’t have any more specifics on where it was found. I found it probably 15 years ago when I was a kid, and just kept it for all this time. Also, do you want dimensions of the rock or the specimen in the rock?
@chad-bruce That’s alright! Thanks for getting back to us! Dimensions of the specimen, if possible!
It doesn’t look like a trilobite
On the side
Most likely some kind of mark from an ancient marine creature or a different kind of marine species
Hi @mackenzie-ross-2, I added the dimensions of the specimen, and I measured from the edge of the indentation. As for the location, it’s entirely possible that it’s originally from northern lower Michigan and was brought to newberry from a quarry.
it looks so much like a shoe imprint, even though it isn’t. my theory is that it’s a shed trilobite carapace imprint of the inside of the shell