I Found These In Ne Alabama, Can You Help Me Identify Please?

[Sullenskies]

I found these fossils in the same rock with trilobites but cannot find anything that looks similar to them on the net. They were found in NE Alabama near the Gadsden Area, any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Also since I am new to this forum it will not let me create an album just yet, these links are fossils not some kind of spam or virus.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d173/kadaverous13/2B167D76-2A4D-4C04-A965-3654544723FF-19732-0000090A44587AC3.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d173/kadaverous13/D007A401-1FA4-48E3-B8A5-741919BDA785-19732-0000090A3992C775.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d173/kadaverous13/541BFE80-70BA-4455-BCCB-F99E3F4C04BB-19732-0000090A29CD54A1.jpg

[Herb]

Can't really tell without a little clearer pix. Maybe graptolites??

I think the last one is a fossil mosquito

[araucaria1959]

How old? Possibly trilobite fragments?

araucaria1959

[Archimedes]

what age and formation is the fossil from???

it looks t be limestone, upper mississippian????

hard to tell but me thinks its a spine on a piece of a productid brachiopod

[Auspex]

I think they look like various shell or carapace pieces embedded in the weathered sedimentary matrix.

[piranha]

The suggestion of a trilobite sounds good to me. The photos are showing a spine attached to a thoracic tergite from the trilobite: Norwoodia. The Conasauga Formation runs through northeastern Alabama and Norwoodia gracilis (Walcott, 1916) is described. Attached is a line drawing with arrow pointing to the spine-bearing segment.

[Auspex]

The suggestion of a trilobite sounds good to me...

When does it not?

You always back it up, though

[FossilDAWG]

I agree with piranha that you seem to have fragments of a couple of different types of trilobites. Attached are photos of a couple of Norwoodia, one with and one without the free cheeks attached, that I collected in NE Alabama. The occipital spine (pointing backwards from the back of the head) doesn't show on my specimens, as it is broken off. I also will post a photo of an agnostid trilobite (Baltagnostus) from the same area, as I think I see possible heads or tails of agnostids in your photos. The photos aren't the best, I was playing with a microscope-to-computer setup that had a ring light, so there are no shadows to lend contrast or depth to the images. There are agnostids in addition to Baltagnostus in the area, such as Peronopsis, and I can't tell from your images what genus you have (or even be certain you have agnostids, hopefully you can make that determination).

Don

Norwoodia:

Baltagnostus:

[Sullenskies]

Thank you very much everyone, I do have a bunch of trilobites that came from the area and they look just like the Norwoodia that you all have posting pictures of/ talked about. I appreciate everyone's time ^^

[howard_l]

As Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes show used to say I SEE NOTHING

Edited September 1, 2012 by howard_l

[S233]

Cant figure out what they are, but nice finds anyway, and i hope someone hear can ID them for you.

[Indy]

The suggestion of a trilobite sounds good to me.

When does it not?

You always back it up, though

You show Scott (piranha) a tiny sliver of a trilobite ...

He'll tell you it's name and what size shoes it wore !!

[AgrilusHunter]

You show Scott (piranha) a tiny sliver of a trilobite ...

He'll tell you it's name and what size shoes it wore !!

This is a common misconception as trilobites unanimously prefered sandals.

[AgrilusHunter]

... sorry.