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Hi everyone, went on a nice little expedition into West VA over thanksgiving break. tried my hand on checking out the rose hill formation in Waiteville. lovely time out with some beautiful scenery and farms. The sandstone was sparse fossil wise, but I did find three pieces with some interesting stuff to ponder. here are each of the three rocks, labeled Specimens A-C Specimen A looks like it has some simple fossil impression. on first inspection there's some nice Ostracods and a couple brachiopod impressions in the middle. but on closer inspection on the edges I noticed there is a possible mold of a trilobite pygidium. (Likely Calymene Cresapensis) ostracods and brachiopod impressions. Here are closeups of the trilobite impression. lastly here are a couple impressions that might be something. Specimen B Specimen B has the Faintest brachiopod impression (According to this book I read it looks like Cupulastrum Neglectum) there's a weird looking impression I have no idea what it is. other weird impressions on the side. Specimen C I think i found a hash plate of trilobite chunks here, although Im not familiar with the geology of this place so it could just be concretion. this piece also has a definite Trilobite in it on the side. Trilobite. I do not know which part of it this is, could be Pygidium or Thorax. Possible cephalon piece? Please let me know if I missed any ID's or am way off on my guesses here. as always, message if you want to see a different side/ angle of something.

I recently collected in the Rose Hill Formation in West Virginia. I found a lot of small trilobite pieces and a couple brachiopod and pelecypod fossils. I am having some trouble figuring out what these two fossils are. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any additional photos. #1- the piece at the bottom of the photo measures about 0.5 cm tall and 1 cm wide. I found a similar looking fossil below. No clue what it could be... #2- the pygidium measures about 1 cm tall and 1.3 cm wide.