Jurassic shrimp? 🦐

[Eocarcharia]

Hey,

this is my very first contribution here.

I found something at a stone quarry in southern germany ("Schiefersteinbruch Kromer"), the area there contains fossils from 190 my ago, it was a tropical sea. There are lots of ammonites (should be Dactylioceras) in the same place.

 

The shape of what I found reminds me of a flat shrimp, but I could totally mistaken for sure.

Every hint or information on this would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

(Exact place is Ohmden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

 

Edited September 19 by Eocarcharia

[oilshale]

I think this is part of a disintegrated fish head. I would ask Dr. Günter Schweigert in Stuttgart.

[Mark Kmiecik]

I'm not seeing shrimp here either.

[Eocarcharia]

22 hours ago, oilshale said:

I think this is part of a disintegrated fish head. I would ask Dr. Günter Schweigert in Stuttgart.

Thank you all for your feedback. I did ask him as you suggested. He wrote to me that it is probably a scale of a fish (Pycnodontiformes) like Gyrodus spec.

Reason for that assessment is its wrinkled surface.