KimboSlice Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 From the Mississippian time period. Found in Boone County, MO in a creek bed. It measures approximately 1/2 an inch. I may be reaching to think it’s a worm, but I’m new to identifying my own fossil finds, so please don’t make fun! Included are two photos, with and without flash. Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Looks more like a small orthocone nautiloid to me, but it would help if you could post higher resolution photos. These are not quite sharp enough. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Looks like an orthocone to me too. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimboSlice Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 10 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Looks more like a small orthocone nautiloid to me, but it would help if you could post higher resolution photos. These are not quite sharp enough. I agree! I wasn’t really able to get super high resolution photos because it’s so small. I’ll try to post some clearer photos here in a bit. Thanks for your input! Much appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimboSlice Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 11 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Looks more like a small orthocone nautiloid to me, but it would help if you could post higher resolution photos. These are not quite sharp enough. Do these help? I tried to get them in natural sunlight, and as clear as I could. Measures at 1/2 inch. Not sure if I included that before but just in case I did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Not sure, but it looks more like a weathered crinoid stem now, with the apparent taper due to it going into the rock. And that's definitely a smaller piece of crinoid below it, maybe a cirrus (side branch) which is showing the same sort of texture where it's been weathered. 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 That was my thought too, a crinoid holdfast or branching column as a possible ID. 1 " 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...
Ludwigia Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 I'll go along with the others now that I can see it better. Thanks for the new pics. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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