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I've purchased 'The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna' by Jack Wittry, and have been fascinated, and nearly overwhelmed, by the wealth of information presented. With the great descriptions and photography, I've been able to identify quite a number of pieces in my collection, but it has been difficult for many of the specimens. I'm certain that this is the normal course of education that most of you have undergone over a period of years, and I'm sure that experience and familiarity will help. I'm requesting your help with identification on some of the more difficult pieces I've run into so far. The first one may simply be a seed pod or some other type of flora that wouldn't have been in the book, but on the chance it might be a coprolite, I'm asking for help: There are two 'pods' in the concretion. Each measures approximately 3/16" x 5/16". The photos are of the positive and negative of one of the pods. Second image in next post.
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B, really has me stumped. It's a very 3D specimen, and I've seen similarities in pictures of flora as well as fauna. My totally wild guess is Amynilyspes wortheni, a pill millipede.
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C. I'd like to think is a bristle worm.
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I've viewed many of the members' photos of Mazon Creek fossils, but as still running into problems with identification. Many of the identified specimens have a doppelganger counterpart in another kingdom, or a similar-looking counterpart in the same kingdom. Sometimes, in my own collection of Mazon Creek fossils, I don't even realize what I'm looking at until I photograph it and look closely at the picture. And I realize that some specimens are simply inadequate in detail to make an identification. I would like to present some of my questionable pieces, and would welcome your commentsl Possibly Asterophyllites equisetiformis?
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