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Sarah Gripe posted a new specimen in the group
What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoSarah Gripe has contributed specimen mFeM 82026 to myFOSSIL!
Sarah Gripe posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Gripe has contributed specimen mFeM 82026 to myFOSSIL!
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Hey @sarah-gripe ! Could you possibly add the nearest municipality to where you found your specimens? It would aid in providing its geochronologiclql origin and help narrow down and ID.
Just updated with location. Thanks!
Trilobite maybe?
The segments are too thin to be a trilobite. Fossilized fish fillet?
it looks like the fossil l posted a while ago! Nobody was able to identify it, so it could be a new species. yours too, if it turns out to be the same creature
The strata around Lockwood is Carboniferous with mostly Mississippian and some Pennsylvanian sediments.
@sarah-gripe If you could post a couple more photos from other angles that could help too.
Thanks @matthew-gramling and everyone! I will post some additional photos to the group
Could be some kind of millipede like Carboniferous insect?
Definitely looks fish-like (including a spine-like ridge)
Greetings @samantha-ocon and @mackenzie-smith ! I thought I’d tag you guys to get your input as to the type of specimen this is. Arthropod? Fish? Plant? Rock?
Fish ribcage?
Might just be the fossilization, but some of the lines look off. Has anyone considered the possibility that it’s man-made?
This one is stumping me, so I will tag in @jbauer.
Hi all @samantha-ocon @matthew-gramling @sarah-gripe @leonardo-miranda interesting find. I would guess it would be a smushed conulariid (jelly fish relative) or a straight cephalopod. Location indicates probably Mississippian in age.
It looks like a mold which makes it hard to tell but conulariids have perpendicular ornamentation – which you seem…[Read more]
Guys!!! I found it! Look up “paraconularia missouriensis”
l did research on conulariids and l too agree without a doubt that not only is this fossil a conulariid, but so is mine! l am relieved to have an identity for my critter
Some sort of filter feeding/ immobile sea creature
Wow!!! Amazing! It looks just like the fossil we found! Thank you all for researching and spending your time to help identify. You made our 10 y/o son’s day! Appreciate it so much
related to cnidarians
Greetings @jbauer ! Thank you again for your expertise and assistance in cracking another Paleozoic puzzle!
And @sarah-gripe ! Glad the myFossil community could help!