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Think I found a Brachiopod in the mud on my shoe


Lone Hunter

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Just washed off couple pounds of dried mud on my shoes from my outing yesterday to Grayson spot.  Was delighted to find another fossil!  I have not been able to ID it, first I thought deer heart clam but I see the hinge,  is this a Brachiopod? 

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It's a bivalve. The general shape of the elongate wing plus the comb like teeth make me think something along the lines of Nuculana.

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4 hours ago, Lone Hunter said:

first I thought deer heart clam but I see the hinge,  is this a Brachiopod? 

 

I agree with Thomas that it's a bivalve. A brachiopod always shows bilateral symmetry, bivalves do not.

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