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A few Ordovician unknowns


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Here are a few fossils I recently collected from the Maquoketa Group (Upper Ordovician) in northern Illinois that I'm not sure about.

 

1) Maybe some kind of trace fossil?

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2) The two things in question here are to the left and right of the pentagonal crinoid columnal. The small fossil on the left looks like it might be part of a trilobite genal spine? And the three-pointed fossil to the bottom right I have no idea about. I feel like I've seen something similar before but can't remember.

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3) This looks like a brachiopod or bivalve fragment. My best guess is a partial shell of the bivalve Ambonychia.

 

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1) Agree - trace fossil - burrows of some sort.

2) Genal spine piece and bryozoan.

3) Orthid brachiopod fragment. 

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The little y shape bryozoan ?

Aulopora is listed as from the upper Ordovician. It looks more something like that to me. 

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58 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

The little y shape bryozoan ?

Aulopora is listed as from the upper Ordovician. It looks more something like that to me. 

I agree.

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2 hours ago, Rockwood said:

The little y shape bryozoan ?

Aulopora is listed as from the upper Ordovician. It looks more something like that to me. 

Could be. :)

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Yes, I agree with @Rockwood. The "Pac-Man" looking fossils are possibly from the arms of a Crinoid.

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10 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

1) Agree - trace fossil - burrows of some sort.

2) Genal spine piece and bryozoan.

3) Orthid brachiopod fragment. 

Orthid brachiopod looks like a good match. As for the genal spine, best guess would be Isotelus? Not seeing another good match on the Dry Dredgers ID page.

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14 minutes ago, connorp said:

Orthid brachiopod looks like a good match. As for the genal spine, best guess would be Isotelus? Not seeing another good match on the Dry Dredgers ID page.

Not sure. I've just spent a couple of weeks trying to id trilobits from the Lawrenceburg road cut, Upper Ordovician and had precisely no luck at all. :( 

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