Daughter In Need Of Fossil I.D.

[Tennessees Pride]

This specimen was put in my hand by my 5 year old Sunday! Talk about making Daddy proud....her Native American and Fossil finds are truly incredible....she has actually recovered a dinosaur bone!! I kid you not. This latest fossil to be dropped in my hand doesn't surprise me....lots of times when we hunt, I come home with second best material.

That child has already found more agates than I've found in my entire life...about every time we visit Sardis park, she'll come home with an agate.

I was pretty sure I had her Sunday..with what appears to be a burrow replaced by hematite, then she just tore me up with this incredible find...sprinkles are for winners, thank goodness she shares her sprinkles with me!

Does anyone know what it may be?

Edited February 2, 2016 by Tennessees Pride

[Carl]

T'is a spiriferid brachiopod. I can't do any better.

[jpc]

yup... what he said.

[Tennessees Pride]

More views.

[Tennessees Pride]

T'is a spiriferid brachiopod. I can't do any better.

yup... what he said.

Boom!!!!

Carl and jpc, y'all are the men!!! Thank you sirs.

Can't wait to tell her Daddy's friends identified it.

[Tennessees Pride]

Any ideas on a possible age, I'm curious to know how old that river gravel is?

[Tennessees Pride]

Us right before her discovery. Pic 2: Her best, and my best...even she could tell I had been outgunned.

[Tennessees Pride]

Oh my goodness, that material became extinct by the Jurassic period. Impressive.

[snolly50]

Us right before her discovery. Pic 2: Her best, and my best...even she could tell I had been outgunned.

You are by far the richest man I've seen today.

[Tennessees Pride]

You are by far the richest man I've seen today.

Without doubt sir.

Thank you.

[Herb]

the closest thing to an ID I have is a worn Ord. Platystrophia ?

[sTamprockcoin]

My Theory: My kids always find the better stuff because they're closer to the ground to start with.

[Carl]

These things had a huge temporal range but my knee-jerk is Devonian - they seem to be the mascots of the Devonian!