Unknown Arthropod: Port Colborne

pleecan (Peter Lee)
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Unknown Arthropod: Port Colborne Jun 24, 2013 20:54:42 GMT -5

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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Jun 24, 2013 20:54:42 GMT -5

Think the layer is Bertie Group but at a different location Port Colborne south of Bertie Lagerstatten (Fort Erie ON) Canada.

The image is a faint fossil with legs ... think it is a ventral view of head portion of phyllocarid on its back rostrum pointing up .....
www.flickr.com/photos/94604973@N04/9131745112/

www.flickr.com/photos/94604973@N04/9129550089/

www.flickr.com/photos/94604973@N04/9131774176/

www.flickr.com/photos/94604973@N04/9131788516/

www.flickr.com/photos/94604973@N04/9131788516/

scale 1 division = 1mm

Last Edit: Jun 24, 2013 21:05:42 GMT -5 by pleecan (Peter Lee)

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Unknown Arthropod: Port Colborne Dec 19, 2013 14:53:38 GMT -5

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Post by Joe Botting on Dec 19, 2013 14:53:38 GMT -5

Hmm... clearly a small fragment, this one, but I would agree those look like legs. The rock reminds me of some of the deposits that have yielded early terrestrial arthropod, and although I can't see anything diagnostic here at all, it does have the look of something like myriapod - possibly. However, I'm normally completely wrong even on quite nice arthropods, so that doesn't count for much. ;D

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Unknown Arthropod: Port Colborne Dec 19, 2013 19:49:21 GMT -5

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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Dec 19, 2013 19:49:21 GMT -5

This is also Bertie Group ... there are eurypterids is this quarry also.... there are also phyllocarid here too... quarry has Devonian and Silurian rock... Port Colborne is on the north shore of Lake Erie about 1/2hr drive from Bertie Lagerstatten in Ft Erie ON.