hitekmastr Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Online sources say if this has a pedicle it is a brachiopod - so I'm trying to figure out if the pedicle is showing at the far right, in which case this would be a large (5 cm) brachiopod? Collected yesterday (Oct. 6) at Deer Lake/Mahantango. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
araucaria1959 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Pedicles are usually not preserved in fossil brachiopods, except for rare circumstances in Konservat Lagerstätten like Chengjiang where soft tissue preservation does occur. So I don't think you have a pedicle in your devonian material. My suggestion is hinge of a bivalve. This also fits with the size of that specimen (though devonian brachiopods may also reach 5 cm and beyond). araucaria1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitekmastr Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Pedicles are usually not preserved in fossil brachiopods, except for rare circumstances in Konservat Lagerstätten like Chengjiang where soft tissue preservation does occur. So I don't think you have a pedicle in your devonian material. My suggestion is hinge of a bivalve. This also fits with the size of that specimen (though devonian brachiopods may also reach 5 cm and beyond). araucaria1959 Thank you very much - this is exactly the kind of guidance I was looking for. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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