fossilfinder100 Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 (edited) This is fine sandstone with lots of tiny shell fragments. It has been split once and both inside surfaces are shown although the larger piece contains more prominent features. I believe it is from the Eau Claire fm./Cambrian. The fossils I am curious about are cone shaped casts and molds (some are very slightly curved), and the really small branch or root shaped cast which fell out when splitting this rock. Edited July 10, 2016 by fossilfinder100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 The pictures are to out of focus to see any detail, which makes it impossible to identify with any certainty. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilfinder100 Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 The pictures are to out of focus to see any detail, which makes it impossible to identify with any certainty. Tony i added a new pic, its a little better quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 The cone shaped fossils are most likely to be hyolithids. Don 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilfinder100 Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 The cone shaped fossils are most likely to be hyolithids. Don Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilfinder100 Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 What about the little one? I was thinking bryozoan but from my understanding they didn't appear until the Ordovician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I can only see Hyoliths and one Brachiopod... Which "little one" did you mean? Can you provide better pictures and close ups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prem Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Salterella, perhaps? ----Prem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) interesting suggestion,Prem SSF's rule!!! Edited July 15, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Salterella, same like Volborthella both are agglutinating, but I can not see this in the pictures. And both can be assigned to SSF, but I think the fossils shown above are to large... The brachiopod is nearly undeterminable with those pictures (and I guess to badly preserved to specify it at all). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) The Lower Cambrian conical-shaped Salterella (Billings,1861) is described here, if anyone needed it : Unusually preserved Salterella from the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of Newfoundland.pdf Also in Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations,North-East Greenland - Christian B. Skovsted, among other species : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250070763_Small_shelly_fauna_from_the_upper_Lower_Cambrian_Bastion_and_Ella_Island_Formations_North-East_Greenland Edited July 15, 2016 by abyssunder " 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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