Dromiopsis Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Hello! Here are pictures of epizoans on Anthoceras vaginatum and Endoceras sp shells from the lower-middle Ordovician of Sweden. I think that it could be inarticulated brachiopods from Craniidea family.... does anyone has seen this before? Thanks in advance Dromiopsis Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 more on this 2 nautiloids Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 They look like crinoid holdfasts - nice, whatever they are! Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 Thanks TqB, I thought about that but in these levels that I have dug more than one hundren time, I have never seen a stem of crinoïds...... Thanks for your answer! D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Do you see any whorls at the ends? I also think you have pictured a crinoid stalk, while also examining a potential small endo or orthoceras piece that I picked up yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I agree with Tarquin, They are crinoid holdfasts. Maybe the paleoenvironment was too rough to keep the stem sections? -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 Hello , Thanks both for yours answers, effectively, there's whorls on the biggest and best specimen conserved. My eyes are focused on the nautiloids when I arrive on sites each time... I will take more time next spring to observe the environment around the nautiloids Thanks again for your help! Dromiopsis Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I wonder if that Orthocerid limestone would polish up as well as the stuff from Morocco? -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 I wonder if that Orthocerid limestone would polish up as well as the stuff from Morocco? Hello Dave, in the harder levels, it's possible to do as the moroccan stuf, thousands of floors all around scandinavia(old swedish kingdom) got polish nautiloids....I have seen a lot in old buildings(Sweden, Norway). Most of recent polish stones come now from the Västergotland region, Kinnekulle; you still can buy such floor Dromiopsis in attachment, a piece of polish Endoceras comming from the "thorsberg quarry" , Kinnekulle area Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Nice specimens. I wonder if that Orthocerid limestone would polish up as well as the stuff from Morocco? I have thought the same thing. Here are a couple of specimens I found in Sweden earlier this year, one wet, the other dry. I have not polished them but they do look nice when wet. All the best, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I think they might also be solitary bryozoan colonies "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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