jarredmorrison Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I live in Bentonville Ar which is in the northwest corner of arkansas. I found an area with a bluff that has been mostly concealed behind a wooded area that i have been messing around looking for fossils in. found this one on the top of the bluff where rainwater had unearthed most of the top. the bottom portion had to be broken out of the rock. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertrand Russell
Auspex Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 It is a Brachiopod, a type of sea shell. You appear to be in an area of Mississippian rocks, which are roughly between 325 and 360 million years old. 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease!
abyssunder Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Brachiopod may be... " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library
howard_l Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 From what I can glean from Geologic map of your area, the rocks in your area are Mississippian in age with Pennsylvanian to the south. Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils
jarredmorrison Posted May 6, 2015 Author Posted May 6, 2015 thank you guys The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertrand Russell
Fossildude19 Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Looks like a Rhynchonellid brachiopod. Regards, 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me
Herb Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 what fossildude says 1 "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks
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