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Multiple Phosphatic Nodules from Muncie Creek Shale that I could not Identify ( Missouri )


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Location: Missouri

Time period: Pennsylvanian

Formation: Muncie Creek Shale

 

 

 

Specimen 1: Fish Coprolite? 

1.8cm (nodule size)

 

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Specimen 2: Coprolite? 2cm (nodule size)

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Specimen 3: Fish Mandible? (2.6cm)

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Specimen 4: Coprolite or Maybe Braincase (I think it is very unlikely that it is) 

2.8cm Nodule size

1.5cm (fossil size)

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Specimen 5: (2.9cm)

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Note: The placement of the fossilized material might be wrong as this was one of my first nodules and the fossilized material fell out. I recovered what I could. (Opened roughly 2 months ago)

 

Specimen 6: Tessellated Cartilage with some Skin impressions ? (2.5cm)

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Specimine 7: Fish material? 

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Thank you for reading and viewing this, I hope I can better understand these images so I can use them as references in the future!

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