belemniten Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Last week i enjoyed my holiday in Belgium in the Ardennes. Too bad that the weather was sometimes not that good but all in all it was a nice and successful holiday. I spent one complete day in an old quarry near Resteigne, where you can find many different fossils. The layers belong to the Eifelium, Middle Devon. For example I found brachiopods, corals and some trilobite parts. I will post them in a few days. But I also found an interesting item which I cant identify ! Its about 2 cm long and in my eyes it looks strange Maybe a kind of crinoid?? Any help is welcome ! Thanks ! Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I will venture two guesses, one being the underside of a trilobite cephalon, and two as you said a strange echnoid. I have no idea whether I, right or not, but hopefully others will. Good luck! “...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...
doushantuo Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 That's a trilobite,methinks (underneath: from Bignon & Cronier,Acta pal.Pol,figure rotated for ease of reading) Possibly Gerastos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Maybe @piranha can help “...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...
belemniten Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Thanks @WhodamanHD and @doushantuo ! My first impression was also that its a trilobite. But it has strange lateral "arms" or whatever it is ... Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Might be remnants of the preglabellar field,Seb* edit: my terminology might be off. *->But they look like they might be parts of the cephalon. Piranha has seen all kinds of preservational type,and,frankly,I haven't. Do you know if it was the Lesse quarry you were in/at/near? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 My guess is a cross section of a brachiopod, with a remnant of the exposed sides. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 6 hours ago, doushantuo said: Might be remnants of the preglabellar field,Seb* edit: my terminology might be off. *->But they look like they might be parts of the cephalon. Piranha has seen all kinds of preservational type,and,frankly,I haven't. Do you know if it was the Lesse quarry you were in/at/near? Thanks ! Lets see what he think ! And yes it was the Lesse quarry. 6 hours ago, ynot said: My guess is a cross section of a brachiopod, with a remnant of the exposed sides. Thanks @ynot ! Thats another good hypothesis ... although I have never seen a brachiopod like that It seems that it does have a kind of stem ... Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Some variety of phyllocarid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Weird and cool John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Jeffrey P said: Some variety of phyllocarid? Thanks Jeffrey ! Thats indeed another possibility ... a bit confusing 1 hour ago, JohnBrewer said: Weird and cool Thanks John ! Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Garrison Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Those "arms" look pretty similar to the perforated cephalon fringe thingies on harpes trilobites. Googling for images came up with a good example on this site : http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/38421-veralum-trilobite/ See also this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Looks like an echinoderm, to me. Maybe a worn blastoid or cystoid. Nice examples can be seen here . 2 " 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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