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I agree there were no oyters in the ordocician.

This one seems to be from the gryphea family and can be an actual shell. It wears marks of epibiotic animals.

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Looks like someone was shucking oysters out there! At least I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that shell and a modern oyster. If it's modern, it's almost certainly the commercially harvested species Crassotrea virginica.

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32 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

Is there any Mesozoic or Cenozoic rock overlying the Paleozoic in that area?

Everything there is Carboniferous and earlier.

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My bet is it is modern, then... Maybe some fisherman/hunter or fossicker had some oysters for lunch and disposed of the shell there, as verydeadthings suggested?

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