Small Fossil in Agate

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It's the fossil cast of the partial shell of a brachiopod... a marine animal sometimes known as a 'lamp-shell', with the shell hinged for top/bottom opening rather than left/right like bivalve molluscs. Nice that its agatized.
 

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