Deb and me spent about 7 hours in Arkona at the Hungry Holllow site where we had an opportunity to dig with @Northern Sharks and @middevonian - both great guys to crack rocks with - and two fossil club guests who were being shown around for the first time.
My day started off in the south pit where I fussed about in the coral biostrome of the HH member. There are some interspersed shale-y layers that can produce marine fossils other than coral. The high energy environment of its deposition means finding more or less fragments of trilos, a few brachs, pelecypods, bryozoan colonies, and crinoid stems/ossicles.
Eldredgeops is by far one of the most common to find in these layers, but not so common to find full. That being said, they can come out fairly robust. We were finding some big fragments. In one (not pictured) that was half a cephalon, the eye alone was probably the size of a Tic-Tac. Pictured here is the biggest cephalon I pulled from the biostrome - a fairly plump glabella on this one:
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E. rana are nice, but my real goal was to bag a full Pseudodechenella. No dice on that one today, but at least some Crassiproetus pygidium fragments: