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Possible Worm Fossil?


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Hi everyone, I recently checked out a spot in Danube, NY for trilobites. I made sure to take a ton of shale home for further examination, and I split a piece and found this.

 

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This is the best picture I could get at the moment, hopefully it is sufficient. It does not come off after running under some water.

 

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Better pictures are required. 

Too much detail is lost with enlarging the photo:

 

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As Tim has indicated, better evidence is needed. I have little confidence that it will prove to be an actual worm however. Trace fossil is much more likely.

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On 5/8/2021 at 7:52 AM, Rockwood said:

As Tim has indicated, better evidence is needed. I have little confidence that it will prove to be an actual worm however. Trace fossil is much more likely.

 

On 5/8/2021 at 7:29 AM, Fossildude19 said:

Better pictures are required. 

Too much detail is lost with enlarging the photo:

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Here is a better photo, I can get some more soon with my microscope.

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This is the best side, the other side's photos are not coming out well.

 

The spot I collected in is in Danube (Little Falls, I made sure to not collect where posted), and a website that I use for Fossil sites in NY says that worms can be found at the spot I was in (donaldkenney.x10.mx)

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I don't think a determination can be made from these photos.  :unsure: 

 

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I'm not seeing any tell-tale segmentation or intestinal tract.   :headscratch:

It could just as easily be a coprolite, sedimentary structure, or an ichnofossil.  :shrug:

 

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2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

I don't think a determination can be made from these photos.  :unsure: 

 

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I'm not seeing any tell-tale segmentation or intestinal tract.   :headscratch:

It could just as easily be a coprolite, sedimentary structure, or an ichnofossil.  :shrug:

 

I'll try and get some photos with my microscope soon, hopefully the photos will have some higher detail

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This is perhaps best determined with the piece in hand.  Does this line represent one structure avoiding the other, or does it instead pass under to join  a continuous coil ? 

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1 hour ago, Rockwood said:

This is perhaps best determined with the piece in hand.  Does this line represent one structure avoiding the other, or does it instead pass under to join  a continuous coil ? 

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2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

I don't think a determination can be made from these photos.  :unsure: 

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I'm not seeing any tell-tale segmentation or intestinal tract.   :headscratch:

It could just as easily be a coprolite, sedimentary structure, or an ichnofossil.  :shrug:

 

As promised, here are some (hopefully) more detailed photos from my microscope.

 

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The good side ^

 

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Not so good side ^

 

If you need more photos please let me know, I should be able to get more if requested.

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Oh ! Oh ! Oh!

I get to use the word . . .  I think this represents a palimpsest in ichnology. :) 

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Maybe something similar to Helminthopsis? 

 

Not a worm, but an inchofossil of what is believed to be a feeding trail? :shrug:

 

 

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