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Penn Dixie fossil park and Nature preserve


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Hi all. Managed to get out to Penn Dixie fossil park a couple weekends ago. Trilobite pieces and brachiopods from the Moscow formation.

 

The lone head is the same on with a scale, one shown under magnifying glass. 

The same with the two bodies. 

 

The trilobite head looks like it's from an Eldredgeops rana. And the brachiopods Mediospirifier audaculus (lone)
Rhipidomella sp .(pair).

 

Thanks for viewing. 

 

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Nice finds! But I think that your paired brachs are Pseudoatrypa devoniana, Rhipidomella are usually quite flat and have very fine ribbing, Pseudoatrypa have one very convex and another fairly flat valve with larger ribs which is what I think yours have.

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I agree with Misha about the brachiopods.

 

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@Misha Thank you! When you describe them as such I can see that better. The photos I used for ID were dead on so hard to see the difference. My fault for not searching out more references. I do have one piece that's flat on both sides, I'll try to post a picture later. 

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