Paulding OH unknown

[connorp]

I found this thing when I was sorting through the haul from a recent trip to Paulding (Silica Shale, Devonian). I have no idea what it is. Only thing I thought of is some kind of fish bit, really just because it doesn't look like anything else from Paulding that I'm familiar with. Any ideas?

 

 

[Kane]

Hard to make out from the photo, but are you sure it isn’t a trilo-bit?

[caldigger]

Looks trilo to me as well!

[minnbuckeye]

Trilo-bit likely but I wouldn't rule out spirifer-bit. Either way, it is unlikely to be something out of the norm for Paulding.

[connorp]

Didn't look like a trilo bit at first glance but it might be. When school opens back up tomorrow I'll get it under a microscope and try and expose it more.

[Nimravis]

@Peat Burns

 

 

I am also thinking trilo-bit.

[Peat Burns]

Agree with trilobite thoracic segments. I can't think, off the top of my head, of any brachiopods at the site that have acute, deep, and narrow plications like that, so I'm going with trilobit.