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Found on the icy shore of Moosehead Lake, at the end of a rope dropped over an unstable ledge of The Forks formation turbidite. It's in rough shape, but would it be reasonable to call it a crinoid calyx ?

Dear friends, I need your help on identification of a fossil that I found in the Carpatho-Balkanides of Eastern Serbia. The fossil was found in a quarry of Upper Devonian turbiditic, fine to coarse grained siliciclastic sediments. Shales which bear the fossil are a top part of a complete Bouma sequence. This is maybe indication that the fossil was not transported by the turbiditic currents but was buried by sediment vertically from the water column. Late Devonian (Fameniann) age of the sediments is based on Cyclostigma remains which are wide spread in certain levels of turbidites throughout the quarry. It was a single piece broken in two. Basically the shape represents a concave and convex pair. Note the dark outline following the shape. I thought it was some ichnofossil. Outlines are often found on the surfaces of shales in the quarry. Thanks for your time and hello from Serbia!

Cook, T. (2018), How do deep-sea gravity currents transport sediment so far?, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO093667. Published on 02 March 2018. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-do-deep-sea-gravity-currents-transport-sediment-so-far https://eos.org/research-spotlights "The first field measurements of turbidity currents flowing around submarine channel bends indicate spiral flow plays a key role in keeping sediment suspended for hundreds of kilometers." The open access paper is; Azpiroz‐Zabala, M., Cartigny, M.J., Sumner, E.J., Clare, M.A., Talling, P.J., Parsons, D.R. and Cooper, C., 2017. A general model for the helical structure of geophysical flows in channel bends. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(23) pp. 11,932–11,941 The abstract of a paper in reference to fossils is; Elmore, R.D., Pilkey, O.H., Cleary, W.J. and Curran, H.A., 1979. Black shell turbidite, Hatteras abyssal plain, western Atlantic ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 90(12), pp. 1165-1176. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/90/12/1165/202393 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249525312_Black_Shell_turbidite_Hatteras_Abyssal_Plain_western_Atlantic_Ocean Yours, Paul H.

Another mystery from Silurian, The Forks Turbidite in Maine.

Found in the fill of railroad bed. The nearest cut, a good match to the rock type and carbonate nodules found there, is mapped as the forks formation. This is Ludlow aged turbidite. I have reason to believe that this exact area was not included in the study though. The phyla list includes no corals, but I find them to be abundant. Could be just some clay that got spread into the mix, but it sort of looks like some kind of life form or trace.

As the picture shows - I found this fossil 2002 in the afternoon, minutes before I finished work as a gardener - I cleaned the plant areas in Havixbeck - a smalltown at the base of the " Baumberge" in Westfalia - Germany. I lived there for 2 and a half years. In this time I collected there some nice fossils of Campanian age. ....but I never found a fish in the fossil - quarries. They are very rare but since the medieval time known and discriped, then forgotten in the last 200 years there had been found some fishes, nearby less than 100 pieces in the quarries at the Baumberge. Some km far away in Sendenhorst they found fish fossils too. They are very similar to the fossils from Santana Formation in Brasil and the Fossils from Lebanon. Is there anybody who can give the little fish a name?

Fossils like this are found in nodules of carbonate rock within the Forks formation here in Maine. This appears to be a small (1.5 cm) section of stem. What is the bell shaped structure surrounding it ? It seems to be segmented but of a different composition.