DevonianDigger Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Visitor brought this up yesterday. First we thought it was a cephalopod, but after uncovering more of it we're not sure. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 The shape's right for some complete conulariids - can you see any ornament up close? Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Not seeing anything that screams conularid, at least nothing that matches the ones known from the site. Here's a closer shot. Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Looks wormy to me, but serpulids had yet to evolve. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilcrazy Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 DD, I see you have uncovered the tapered end since yesterday. It seems in keeping with the rest of the specimen. As I said yesterday I have a 16 inch TS800 ready for extractions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Looks like plant structures to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 The texture looks consistent with the corals found there, and perhaps the odd shape or folding is possibly an obstruction in the growth pattern. I've seen them branch and twist in some strange ways! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 58 minutes ago, DevonianDigger said: Not seeing anything that screams conularid, at least nothing that matches the ones known from the site. Here's a closer shot. Hey Jay, ... I think this may be a Paleozygopleura "squish-out ". (This happens a lot at the DSR site.) The shells fill with mud, are crushed, and then, the mud squishes out, making a strange looking layer around the shell. It looks like the outermost layer has chipped off, leaving a rougher surface than that usually found in these squish-outs. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 That saw looks much too clean........ FYI I am planning on going to Ridgemount Friday August 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Hard to tell from the photos if it is a body fossil or a trace fossil. If a trace it looks like rusophycus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 @Fossildude19, thanks Tim! We've found a few more of them intermingled with similarly sized cephalopods. At this point we're treating them as cephalopod squish-outs. I can take some pictures that show what appear to be shell fragments in the 'squish zone'. 1 Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 I think this may be trilo realated. There was a thread a while back that covered this very thing. I believe it was started by @Monica. Seems to me it was decided to be trilobite furrows or feeding traces. I have one as well, let me get a picture of it tonight and I will post. caldigger edit...my photo is in the post Monica just presented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 6 hours ago, caldigger said: I think this may be trilo realated. There was a thread a while back that covered this very thing. I believe it was started by @Monica. Seems to me it was decided to be trilobite furrows or feeding traces. I have one as well, let me get a picture of it tonight and I will post. caldigger Hi Doren et al.! It does look like the rusophycus I found by Etobicoke Creek, although this one is a little longer than mine. The thread that you were looking for is here: Monica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 That would be a tiny rusophycus, but entirely in line with the smaller sizes at PD. I think we need to narrow this down: is it a trilo burrow or a squish-out? My untrained eye would have just tossed it aside as just another distorted horn coral! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 It looks like Rusophycus rather than Rhizocorallium, because there's no spreite visible, but the longitudinal break/fissure makes me think that is a crushed specimen of something, so I'll go with Tim on this one. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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