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Rockin' Ric

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Hello Ya'll, went fossil collecting recently and came across these specimens. Carboniferous / Parkwood Formation / Alabama, USA.

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Could this be an impression of the organism leaving the resting traces??? What say you? They are approximately the size of a dime.

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Resting traces.

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Claw marks of a larger Limulid and Diplichnites.

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Hello Ya'll, went fossil collecting recently and came across these specimens. Carboniferous / Parkwood Formation / Alabama, USA.

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Could this be an impression of the organism leaving the resting traces??? What say you? They are approximately the size of a dime....

Being as they are lined up, it seems they could have been caused by locomotion, but as to by what, I am at a complete loss.

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