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Pennsylvanian Marine Fossils from Pennsylvania


Jeffrey P

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Found these, my first Pennsylvanian Age marine fossils in calcareous shale in a road cut in western Pennsylvania on a recent trip. According to the Fossil Collecting in Pennsylvania guide, the formation is the Ames Limestone. Any help with IDs would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Jeffrey, the first 2 pictures seem to me like a mix of gasteropods and/or cephalopods.

pic 3 is a horn coral, but I m not familiar with that location, if it was a european fossil I would have said Caninia sp.

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Jeff,

#3 is is a "horn coral"- anthosian rugose coralite. Small curved objects in #2,4 may be Spirorbis (an anelid).

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4 and 5 both have Productid brachiopods, the fossil to the left in 4 might be a Pelecypod.

Thanks Howard. I'm pretty sure you're right about the pelecypod. It appears very similar to some Devonian ones I've found.

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