Brachiopods with preserved pedicles

[Rockeet]

Hello.  I took the kids for a fossil hunt at an old disused limestone quarry and found this brachiopod with preserved pedicle (or at least that is what I think it is!) 

 

I can’t find any images online of brachiopods with pedicles so exposed.

 

This is the first time we’d gone looking for fossils and it was in the third rock we opened.

 

My question is…before I start cleaning it up/destroying it, were we incredibly lucky to find this or is it likely we could find more specimens with pedicles like this?  Basically, should I leave it as is for now….?

 

thanks!

[Ludwigia]

To my knowledge, any fossilized preserved brachiopod pedicles would be extremely rare and would only be possible under very rare circumstances in the anoxic environment of a socalled Lagerstatt, since they are soft-bodied parts and would normally become dessicated or devoured from predators before fossilization sets in. I have only come across one reference of such, and I've been picking up brachiopods for decades and looking into their identity and background. Granted, that does look to have the shape one would expect for a pedicle, but I'm not seeing the actual brachiopod shell to which you are referring. Can you please point this out more clearly.

[DPS Ammonite]

Here is another reference. See figures 5G and 5H.

 

Du et al. (2020). A new early Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätte expands the occurrence of Burgess Shale-type deposits on the Yangtze Platform

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220304554#f0025

Edited 14 hours ago by DPS Ammonite

[rocket]

Soft-parts-preservation is extremely rare, only a few fossil-locations on the world have fossil brachiopods with soft-parts-preservation

from Rocket to @Rockeet: this does not belong to. Not a soft part of a brachiopod, sorry to say

I add one from the net to compare. Soft-parts are thin and compressed

 

 

 

[Fossildude19]

I too, think your item is not a pedicle.

Please post more images of your item from all sides - top, bottom, front, back, right, left.

 

I also am not seeing a brachiopod shell present.  This looks like a possible infilled burrow, perhaps.

Better/more pictures will help us determine what you have.

[Rockeet]

Here are some more images.  There’s a definite crenellation along the ridge where I thought a brachiopod was still hiding.

 

The location is known for brachiopods ( it is Swiss Jura)