A bunch of fossils from Eifel

[Misha]

Hello everyone!

A bit ago traded some fossils with @Max-fossils and received some really cool stuff.

I have only now gotten around to photographing them and would like to ask for your help with getting accurate IDs.

These are all from the Givetian/ Eifelian of Eifel, Germany.

I would appreciate any help with these IDs

First some corals:

1. This piece was labelled as Favosites sp.

[Misha]

2. Another coral, I mixed up the labels so I am not sure if it came with the label cyathophyllum planum or disphyllum quadrigemina. To me, the latter looks closer to the piece I have.

[Misha]

3. Another colonial coral, this one is oddly smooth. I think that may have been due to exposure to a good amount of acid.

[Misha]

4. Here are some solitary rugose corals, two different types but not sure what either is.

[Misha]

5. Was labelled as a rugose coral but it looks more tabulate to me.

I'm probably wrong though as I don't have much experience with identifying corals, I just find them to be beautiful and important organisms.

[Misha]

6. Not sure if this is even a coral. That surface pattern repeats all over the organism, on all sides.

[Misha]

7. The opposite side of this rock has some crinoids, but this thing caught my eye it is a dark branching stain in the rock. Could it be algae or am I just seeing things?

[Max-fossils]

Wow, the pictures you took are amazing! 

Just as extra info to whoever is wondering who made the ID's, most of them were made by me, but my knowledge on corals and sponges is absolutely terrible so it's very likely I've done mistakes. 

I mainly used these two websites to find some species names: 

https://www.paleontica.org/id_system/fossil_id_search.php (select 'Eifel, Germany' as the location)

https://www.paleontica.org/sites/fossil_site.php?plaats=32 (there are some labeled posters if you scroll down)

Hopefully this can help someone more experienced than me!

[bthemoose]

I can’t help with the IDs, but great photos that I’m sure others will be able to identify from!

[Misha]

@Max-fossils @bthemoose

Thank you guys!

[Misha]

8. Well I think I am done with all the corals, here are a few brachiopods. First, are ones labelled Atrypa reticularis. That ID looks accurate to me but I would just like to make sure

[Misha]

9. These spiriferid, they are a bit beat up but still gorgeous brach's in my opinion. Not sure about the IDs.

[Misha]

10. Nevermind this is a piece of a coral like max explained below.

[Misha]

11. These smaller brachiopods. Sorry, I forgot to include a scale they are about 2 cm in width

[Misha]

I think those are all that I am unsure about, if I find others I will add them later.

[Max-fossils]

1 hour ago, Misha said:

10. This tiny guy, it's quite cool and I guess it's a strophomenid but I have no idea what genus it may belong to.

This seems to me like a 'lid' to the Calceola sandalina coral, it should have come together with more specimens of the species (the slipper-shaped ones). 

[Misha]

21 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

This seems to me like a 'lid' to the Calceola sandalina coral, it should have come together with more specimens of the species (the slipper-shaped ones). 

Oh, wow! They have a little lid, that is really cool. Yeah that's definitely what it is, I thought it looked really strange.

[Misha]

@Tidgy's Dad do you know what the spiriferids or brachiopods under number 11 might be?

[Tidgy's Dad]

Athyris media, I think. 

[Misha]

42 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Athyris media, I think. 

Thank you for the help! That is quite a cool brachiopod

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Misha said:

Thank you for the help! That is quite a cool brachiopod

I agree. 

[Misha]

Is there anyone who would be knowledgeable on corals like those above on TFF? I don't trust myself to identify them.