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Found At Seven Stars PA a while ago, I am not sure weather this is a spine from the pygidium of a Greenops boothi, or if it is part of a phyllocarid telson. I am not an expert on arthropods, for all I know it could be a hyolithid (Hallotheca aclis). Adjacent fossil is a tiny gastropod, scale bar 5 mm.

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Hyolith would be my guess.

 

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It couldn't be a rugose coral, as they are not well preserved at Seven Stars and only a couple specimens are known from that site. I broke away some of the surrounding rock and it does seem to be a Hallotheca. Thanks for your help; I wouldn't have tried to break the rock if it were a phyllocarid!

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