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Need help identifying this fossil from the Ordivician period.


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I have spent a really long time looking for this fossils name, I know it's from the Ordivician period I just don't even know where to begin to classify it. Pls help!

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Unusual view with the shell intact and showing the sensory pits inverted. Very cool!  Is this your specimen?

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Pumpkinhead posted this awhile ago: 

 

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Cryptolithus tesselatus 

 
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