Identification help

[Jessedude92]

Anyone help identify this? Its covered in gastropods or so I've been told. Is it considered a mortality plate? 

[fossilhunter21]

This is a mortality plate, and yes those are gastropods.

 

BTW nice find!  

Edit: I guess we can't know for sure right now if it is a mortality plate or not.

Edited May 19, 2021 by fossilhunter21

[Ludwigia]

1 hour ago, Jessedude92 said:

Is it considered a mortality plate?

It depends on the circumstances of burial and you would need to know more about the stratigraphy, lithology and sedimentation of your find in order to determine if it is a true mortality plate, which is narrowly defined as a place where all of the fauna died at the same time due to some kind of minor or major catastrophy. Otherwise it could just as well be a collection of shells washed together by the current.

[fossilhunter21]

51 minutes ago, Ludwigia said:

It depends on the circumstances of burial and you would need to know more about the stratigraphy, lithology and sedimentation of your find in order to determine if it is a true mortality plate, which is narrowly defined as a place where all of the fauna died at the same time due to some kind of minor or major catastrophy. Otherwise it could just as well be a collection of shells washed together by the current.

Thanks for correcting me Kane.  

 

Now I know some more sbout fossils.

Edited May 19, 2021 by fossilhunter21

[Ludwigia]

7 minutes ago, fossilhunter21 said:

Thanks for correcting me Kane.  

 

 

I'm Roger

[Rockwood]

A collection like this would be disqualified.

[fossilhunter21]

57 minutes ago, Ludwigia said:

I'm Roger

Oops, sorry about that (Again). For some reason I just keep forgetting.

[minnbuckeye]

The gastropods look like a mix of Liospira and Trochonema IF you collect in the Ordovician. May need multiple views of each to be sure.

  

Mike