cngodles Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I am nearly sure the top piece is Metacoceras. The middle is a clam, but what species? Perhaps Astartella concentrica? The bottom, what is that thing? 6477/6478 show it in detail. I find these a lot. Are they brachiopods? Not shown, but there is a horn coral on the back of the piece in a cross section. 1 Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taj Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Nice piece !Metacoceras does not look complete though ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Yeah, if you view it from the side it's only half deep as well. I do have some shell material in the middle though Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deutscheben Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Cool 3-dimensional assemblage! That does look like a brachiopod to me, some kind of productid. Perhaps Juresania? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Brachial valve of a Leptaena I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I'm not really getting brachiopod on the last one, maybe the picture is fooling me. Doesn't it look helical around the dark circular part just below the dark shadow? I think the left edge is broken and missing. I'm not seeing a hinge line. Leptaena only ranges up into the Devonian if my sources are correct so this as a Pennsylvanian fossil should be too young. I guess I might be able to talk myself into a brachial valve of Juresania if that is a hinge line on the upper left just where the rock starts, but call me skeptical at the moment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 I’ll get a better photo this evening. The specimen was wet, so the contrast was high. Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 My semi-educated eye sees a brach like Juresania, too, and if it is for sure Pennsylvanian that would fit. Might that roundish thing next to the ammonoid be a bellerophontid gastropod? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 Hoping I’m not making this worse with these new photos. Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deutscheben Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 That is definitely the brachial valve of a brachiopod, with part broken off on the left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Yes, with the new pictures, I am in the brachiopods camp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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