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Hello, all.:)

After my last wonderfully successful Id effort on here, i thought I'd try again. 

This specimen was boshed free of some matrix that was sent to me by the unrivalled Ralph @Nimravisin a batch of matrix from the Conasauga Formation, Upper Cambrian, Georgia, USA and home to a multitude of the trilobite Aphelaspis brachyphasis as well as rarer agnostids and other even rarer trilos. 

I was looking at this paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250083071_Exceptional_fossil_preservation_in_the_Conasauga_Formation_Cambrian_Northwestern_Georgia_USA and thought my specimen below looks rather like the example D in Figure 3 (sorry, I don't know how to just post that image. 

It's a chlorophyte, so is mine ? 

They appear to be sort of tiny strings of sausages, the longest string being about 2 mm long, so each individual 'cell' is very tiny indeed. 

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Thank you for any comments, ideas or suggestions. 

Adam.:)

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5 minutes ago, ynot said:

Does that count as a comment?

Yup, you get points! :D

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The only thing that I know about the piece in the document that you are referring to is that it is from a different location than where I collected the pieces that you have. The piece in the article is found farther South and in another County. I am not saying that that type of fossil cannot be found in the Conasauga - Murray County matrix, I just don't know.

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Could they be some sort of invertebrate burrow or excrement, reminds me off what modern worms leave behind. 

“...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

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1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

The only thing that I know about the piece in the document that you are referring to is that it is from a different location than where I collected the pieces that you have. The piece in the article is found farther South and in another County. I am not saying that that type of fossil cannot be found in the Conasauga - Murray County matrix, I just don't know.

Hi, Ralph, I think it's probably just some sort of mineralization between bedding planes, but one lives in hope, seeing faces in the clouds! :)

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2 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Hi, Ralph, I think it's probably just some sort of mineralization between bedding planes, but one lives in hope, seeing faces in the clouds! :)

It still could be that fossil- I would still keep it off to the side.

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5 hours ago, Rockwood said:

This should be simple enough. Just check the organic carbon ratio. :) 

 

Righto! 

Tidgy is just doing that for me.

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Okay, so it's a definite maybe or a probably not. 

I agree. 

It will go into my collection with the "probably isn't an algae" piece I have from the Marjum Formation. 

Thanks peeps. :)

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8 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Righto! 

Tidgy is just doing that for me.

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Cool little display! I want my one of my granddaughters to do something like that. A place to keep little treasures. I like the bead/woven thing under it all.e

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3 minutes ago, Malone said:

Cool little display! I want my one of my granddaughters to do something like that. A place to keep little treasures. I like the bead/woven thing under it all.e

It's one of my sofas with the stuff I'm currently sorting through.

Tidgy likes to sit on my fossils and sleeps on a connecting sofa when she so wants. 

And sometimes wakes up before me! :D

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