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Here in Norway is snowing now, so it is not the best time for fossilhunting. But there is another hunting we can do: to look for small things in rocks already found. This is much easier if you take photos of the rocks and then scann them for the details. That is what I did today and I found several things, among them a small orthocone nautiloid. What I wish to show, however, is some unknown animals, which I hope someone can help me identify or suggest a possiblility. I will start, in this corona-time, with a greeting from the Late Ordovician formation in Norway, just before the End Ordovician extincion event, a rock showing the sign of capital 'O' in Greek, the Omega: Ω. This is the last letter of the Greek alpabet (not the small 'o': ω which is the hated omicron). I find this formation very interesting, because it is the end of a long period of evolution, the mature stage with more advanced fauna than the earlier periods, and which we still know very little about, but which came to an "omega" or end. What can the omega shape be part of? The next rock has 4 interesting shapes marked out in the photo, two of them is a rounded shape with a tale behind, a few mm long.

At the site near Slemmestad where I have found many graptolite, I came over this trilobite. It is a few cm long, a part of the thorax. Is it possible to identify which family it is? It maybe can help me to narrow the id of the formation's age there (Bødalen).