WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I was prepping out a shell (it may seem stupid but I don't trust myself with other things) in a piece of matrix given to me by @Rocky Stoner (thx for the stones!) and this little dotted piece caught my eye. Could it be a frag of a trilobite, or is it the usual suspects. I am btw not referring to the obvious bryozoan, but the shiny piece with four holes. Link to post Share on other sites
ynot Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Sorry but I do not see it. Link to post Share on other sites
Max-fossils Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 A picture that's A LOT less blurry will help. Right now, I'm just seeing colors, lines and circles. Take the picture from further away, and then zoom in. Also, could you maybe circle what you think is the 'trilobit"? Link to post Share on other sites
Fossildude19 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Looks like a bryozoan to me. Link to post Share on other sites
westcoast Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Not seeing trilobite here either Link to post Share on other sites
doushantuo Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I can see,through squinted eyes*,something remotely akin to a trinucleid fringe,or is that the "obvious bryozoan"? *and with my imagination in gentle overdrive Like the others said,encircling the object of interest is always a good idea Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 4 hours ago, Max-fossils said: A picture that's A LOT less blurry will help. Right now, I'm just seeing colors, lines and circles. Take the picture from further away, and then zoom in. Also, could you maybe circle what you think is the 'trilobit"? 3 hours ago, doushantuo said: I can see,through squinted eyes*,something remotely akin to a trinucleid fringe,or is that the "obvious bryozoan"? *and with my imagination in gentle overdrive Like the others said,encircling the object of interest is always a good idea Here is it encircled, I know the thing above it is bryozoan. I can't get a great picture with a iPad, even with a magnifying glass. Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 5 hours ago, Max-fossils said: A picture that's A LOT less blurry will help. Right now, I'm just seeing colors, lines and circles. Take the picture from further away, and then zoom in. Also, could you maybe circle what you think is the 'trilobit"? Ha, I forgot trilobite is trilo bit with an e, I meant bit as in piece, and I used trilo as a shortened version. The pun was not intended Link to post Share on other sites
Fossildude19 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said: Here is it encircled, I know the thing above it is bryozoan. I can't get a great picture with a iPad, even with a magnifying glass. ? New picture? Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 10 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: ? New picture? Oh, yeah sorry. Here ( might take a few posts to get the rest) Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 It's the thing with the four holes in the middle, I remember finding something kind of similar a while back and the thread had lots of suggestions but no IDs were definitive. Slight majority on that one said eldregeops, this on is smaller and slightly different though. Link to post Share on other sites
ynot Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Looks like a crinoid calyx print. Definitely not trilobit. The "holes" are spine attachment points. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 18 minutes ago, ynot said: Looks like a crinoid calyx print. Definitely not trilobit. The "holes" are spine attachment points. Okay, I'm still happy. I don't have many caliyces in my collection. Link to post Share on other sites
EMP Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said: Okay, I'm still happy. I don't have many caliyces in my collection. Is it just me, or did anyone else see what he was talking about in the first photo? Hmmm, I don't know about crinoid calyx. Maybe. My first guess was that it was the inside of a chonetid brachiopod. Link to post Share on other sites
westcoast Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Not seeing crinoid calyx. Link to post Share on other sites
WhodamanHD Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 20 minutes ago, EMP said: Is it just me, or did anyone else see what he was talking about in the first photo? Hmmm, I don't know about crinoid calyx. Maybe. My first guess was that it was the inside of a chonetid brachiopod. I can see brach, not too many chonetids in this stuff though (again this is from eastern W.V.) Link to post Share on other sites
Max-fossils Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 19 hours ago, WhodamanHD said: Ha, I forgot trilobite is trilo bit with an e, I meant bit as in piece, and I used trilo as a shortened version. The pun was not intended Actually, "trilobit" is often used on this forum to mean "piece of a trilobite". It is a pun, in some sort of way, but it's really common (here). I actually put trilobit in quotation marks because I wasn't seeing any; as in the supposedly piece of trilobite. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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