Cheecheecago Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Hi, my kids and I are completely new to this, would love some help. Also if there is a paleontology version of "Let Me Google That For You", or Fossil ID for Dummies, etc., we'll gladly take those too! We found this one in Pit 11 of Mazon Creek a few weeks ago, on an eroded slope under heavy shrub cover. It was cast in a concretion/nodule that we exposed through freezing and thawing. The nodule was already broken, so we do not have the whole fossil. To my untrained eye it looks like a fish tail (my 8 year old is convinced it is the claw of a Tully monster, of course). Can anyone make it out? Link to post Share on other sites
fifbrindacier Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Hi, and welcome to all from France. All i can say about your fossil is that it isn't a fish tail. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Fossildude19 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Looks like a shrimp, perhaps Belotelson. Cropped, rotated and brightened. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Kmiecik Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I was thinking shrimp fragment also. Nice find. Judging by the size, Belotelson is a good possibility. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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