Brachiopod With Pedicle?

[hitekmastr]

Online sources say if this has a pedicle it is a brachiopod - so I'm trying to figure out if the pedicle is showing at the far right, in which case this would be a large (5 cm) brachiopod? Collected yesterday (Oct. 6) at Deer Lake/Mahantango.

[araucaria1959]

Pedicles are usually not preserved in fossil brachiopods, except for rare circumstances in Konservat Lagerstätten like Chengjiang where soft tissue preservation does occur. So I don't think you have a pedicle in your devonian material. My suggestion is hinge of a bivalve. This also fits with the size of that specimen (though devonian brachiopods may also reach 5 cm and beyond).

araucaria1959

[hitekmastr]

Pedicles are usually not preserved in fossil brachiopods, except for rare circumstances in Konservat Lagerstätten like Chengjiang where soft tissue preservation does occur. So I don't think you have a pedicle in your devonian material. My suggestion is hinge of a bivalve. This also fits with the size of that specimen (though devonian brachiopods may also reach 5 cm and beyond).

araucaria1959

Thank you very much - this is exactly the kind of guidance I was looking for. Thanks!