#brachiopode

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Im currently out in the woods for rock and fossils. Just visited this rocky boulder pile with many medium sized flints. Found an mussel!!

Any suggestions of knowing to which brachiopode this shell inprint in chert belongs ?

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My largest piece of an mussel shell imprint so far. On an rounder gray chert shard.

I was the entire afternoon until now off to, fossil hunting with search for banded chert today.

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The find from yesterday’s trip on my local paths from fields into the muddy forest tracks.

Found this brachiopod mussel in black flint rock, also with the previous shown piece of echinoid and two of the crinoid pieces.

Not knowing the genus or alike of this mussel, not alike like other from before, therefore an part of the rock is missing, fractured of the mostly right side seen from the shell rims going further, so the brachiopod shell was more in their length.

I’m doing it again if some frost coming back on the end of the year. Planning to to it on new year’s morning or the day after.

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Found two echinoids in different chert colors & this intact full brachiopode. Grayish chert rock.

The recently field pics taken in the sun setting.

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The haul of small fossils like an typical beachcore trip finds, but I was not near any beach or sea. I’m recently vary happy now.

All of this little fossils like the skeleton coral parts, mussels, belemnite nautiloide and crinoid traces found in my direct neighborhood & at my workplace area near the parking lot with the gravel rose beds.

I’m absolutely not near any sea. All new mussel & coral parts eagerly to find with luck within my work time outside from the last days.

After weeks of hopefully thinking, to find some coral traces myself on this area are now reality.

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Nicely brachiopods clusters in small size with their thin sea bed matrix in mini formats.

Found on the gravel bed from my work now.

Unseen all the time, was digging some out from the stones and pebbles.

I will sorting and washing out the rest of found pieces with the limestone sponge, coral parts.

More small finds will be to be continued now.

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Found now this nice small brachiopode shell fossil. From all sides in nicely gray black flint.

Finally in one piece with an thin mantle shell and it’s not an raw flint imprint!!

Perhaps an small fossil of an Zittelina orbis

The same location with the area from last pic who was laying the quarz vessel like rock, on this rich stone road near the crossing of two streets near the fields.

Nearby the dirt corner in which i found the brown echinoid last June.

I have overseen it last time with all the stones.

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An black brachiopode top half imprint, black white lines in flint on an grey chert shard.

The red rims is from the iron rust, within the rock, which align really well with the mussels form.

Found yesterday on the rock piles, it was on the surface with the other rocks. Definitely an new addition, not familiar with this identification of the brachiopode, not found before.