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Hardly geodized, but could be a rudist assemblage of two or three individuals. More pictures from different angles might help.

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A bouquet of rudists. Nice one ! :)

 

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(in my own translation)
Figure 8. Fused, deformed individuals from the Radiolites - Hippurites biofacies
Lapeirouseia zitteli: 1. elongated, fused individuals, 2. three fused individuals in the form of a bouquet, 3. specimens growed together in steps, 4. three individuals adhered to an adult. Vaccinites sulcatus: 5. two individuals, one with normal growth, the other is bent due to an injury on the siphonal flank. Small oysters adhered to the external surface of the valve, 6. juvenile Praeradiolites subtoucasi settled on an injured adult, 7. lower valve injured on the siphonal flank and curved in the opposite direction, 8. juvenile specimen of Praeradiolites subtoucasi adhered to the siphonal flank of another juvenile, 9. fused Hippurites crassicostatus individuals, 10. fused individuals with free siphonal flank, 11. the curved specimen adheres with its siphonal flank to the healthy specimen.

 

excerpt from : Czabalay Lenke - A Sümeg környéki Rudista fauna/La faune des Rudistes des environs de Sümeg (Hongrie). Geologica Hungarica. Series Palaeontologica. 41. Fasc. / 1982

 

 

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