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I'm thinking the outer edge of a shell, but my friend thinks brittlestar (Shropshire, Wenlock Edge)
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Hello, I went to Wenlock Edge in Shropshire a few days ago and collected some fossils. We're all confused as to what this one could be? It's around 5-6cm across. Thank you!- 5 replies
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Embedded in a shell bed - what is it? From Mortimer Forest (Silurian; Ludlow), Shropshire UK
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Hello, I noticed this (referring to the long darker line with the circles in it) in one of the shell beds that I collected from Mortimer Forest a couple weeks ago. It doesn't really look like a shell, or part of, to me, so I'm very confused as to what it is. Thank you!- 1 reply
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Hello, I recently collected a stromatoporoid fossil from Mortimer Forest in Shropshire, UK. I've since bought some general ID guides to help me with my other fossils, and in the one I'm currently using (Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils by John F. Murray) all of the stromatoporoid photos look to be thin sections under a microscope. I've also found a couple sources online that say stromatoporoids are identified using thin slices under a microscope. Unfortunately I don't have access to a high-powered microscope nor equipment/knowledge to produce those thin slices, and so my question is can my ID be taken further than stromatoporoid? I have a x15 hand lens but that is of course nowhere near a microscope. I think by using the general order descriptions in the Atlas I could try, but I'm not sure... Thank you
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Looks like a plant, but I'm not sure (Mortimer Forest, Shropshire. Silurian; Wenlock)
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Is this some kind of plant fossil, or just a weird-ish rock? It was about 15mm in length. Original photo: Brightened photo: Thank you!- 10 replies
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Lots of fossils from Mortimer Forest, Shropshire, UK (Silurian; Wenlock)
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Hello, For a trip for my birthday, my girlfriend and I went to Mortimer Forest in South Shropshire to look for fossils, and we came across quite a few, and as I am very new to fossil collecting (only have been interested within the past few weeks, and I got the DK Fossil Handbook earlier today), I'm not entirely sure what most of them are. I've made a link to an Imgur album for all of the fossils we collected. The caption for each photo is my best guess at an ID, and the numbers denote which rocks they are in. Most of the fossils were found in/by streams, although some were found on the ground by some exposed bedrock. Thank you for reading, and I hope you can help https://imgur.com/a/sT1T0bg -
Hi Help … can anyone identify this trilobite. As a geology teacher, I was given this specimen long ago by a student/ parent. Unfortunately I do not know where it was sourced , & therefore have little clue to it’s possible name, let alone the stage or series of strata it came from. It is set in a dark grey shale (bit like Hope Shale ??) with some very very fine quartz grains in the matrix. It looks a bit like a Cambrian Ogygopsis, but this species is not found locally in Shropshire/ mid Wales. Can you suggest an ID.
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