Plant leaf ? or ? ? ?

[Rocky Stoner]

Greetings again friends.

This was found in the same spot as most of the other recent finds here.

Eastern WV, Mahantango fm., Devonian as usual.

This looks like a plant leaf but is very deeply textured, more-so than I would expect for a leaf this small and under the evident pressures.

I thought maybe a pygidium but the ridges / veins / valleys do not exhibit the symmetry I'd expect for a trilobite.

Does it look familiar to any of you ?

A small remnant, but that is all I recovered.

As always, Thanks much !

Regards,

 

[Fossildude19]

Partial imprint of a bivalve at the hinge-line??  

Partial imprint of a Rugose coral??

Interesting. 
Maybe some others will weigh in. 

 

@Shamalama

[Rockwood]

Mold of a tabulate coral colony ?

[izak_]

I think thats a trilobite pygidium imprint.

[Bguild]

7 minutes ago, Foozil said:

I think thats a trilobite pygidium imprint.

 

It does look like one at first glance, but if you look at the first photo you can see that it's asymmetrical. 

[westcoast]

The pitted internal surface texture doesn't look like trilobite. Also, what's that dark object in the top right quadrant of the third pic?

[Rockwood]

14 minutes ago, Foozil said:

I think thats a trilobite pygidium imprint.

I'm in. It may have been broken before it was deposited.

The stray piece next to it looks trilobitish too.

2 minutes ago, westcoast said:

The pitted internal surface texture doesn't look like trilobite. Also, what's that dark object in the top right quadrant of the third pic?

Internal to the mold, external to the trilobite.

[Shamalama]

Agreed, It's a partial Trilobite pygidium. What you have is one side and part of the central axis. If it were complete the left side would be present as well. Since you are in Mid Devonian I would guess Eldredgeops. Leaves with bilateral symmetry that dense are not present in the Devonian. 

[FossilDAWG]

I agree it is an imprint of an Eldregdeops pygidium.  The texture is a little strange, but perhaps it looks "wrinkled" because it was from freshly molted animal and so the exoskeletion was more flexible than usual?

 

Don C

[westcoast]

Certainly if I found it I would be saying it is a partial pygidium. The texture must be some interesting cuticle structure that I haven't seen before.

[Rocky Stoner]

Thanks for the participation folks.

I'll go with the deformed, partial pygidium as well.

Just not enough of it there to be absolutely sure though.

But, little else it could be.

Thanks again,