strange fossil with curves and edges

[mar2man22]

    Okay, so I've been collecting down by my creek in Oldham Kentucky. I have found plentiful brachiopods and corals, as well as the occasional gastropod. I have not seen any crinoids in the area. Here is a high-spired gastropod as well as some (Orothid? Rhynchonellid? Spirifer?)  Brachiopods I recently picked up.

 

 

   The fossil in question that I need to identify is about an inch long. It's cross-section appears to have the shape of a wing, with an edge on each side and a curve in he middle. External lines stretch from edge to edge.  (photos coming)

I note that the shape seems to taper off in the direction perpendicular to the lines going across the curves.

[ynot]

Fragment of a brachiopod.

Tony

 

PS Nice finds for a backyard creek.

[BobWill]

Does someone know what age this might be?

[Ludwigia]

I agree with Tony. Partial brachiopod.

[Kentuckiana Mike]

The fossils look to be from the Ordovician Period.

 

In the brachiopod picture, the ones on the left side appear to be Hebertella sp. and the upper right some sort of Platystrophia sp. (might have a new name)

 

The gastropod might be a Paupospira sp. (might be another name for Loxoplocus)

 

The Dry Dredgers of Cincinnati have a great Ordovician fossil web site that might be able to help you with your identifications.

 

See their gastropod page here: http://drydredgers.org/thumb_by_gastropods.htm#Loxoplocus

 

Brachiopods: http://drydredgers.org/brach01.htm