Unverified, Professionally Guessed..Possible Jellyfish

[TJE]

Another specimen..guessimated by viewing 'hands on' only (not taken and studied) by a top paleontologist ("Possible Jellyfish")

 

[Jhaddad8]

I don't think that's a jelly fish. I remember seeing a fossil a lot like that in paleo lab, but can't remember what it was.

 

[TJE]

Hello Jhaddad8, can I ask, where the lab is stationed, and if you can remember the 'type or formation' name of the stone which the fossil was in?
Thanks
TJE

 

[old digger]

That's Cool! It looks very much like one.

 

[TJE]

Thanks old digger, Strangely.. I'm still 'on the fence' Ha!
If My memory serves me correct, a few years or more back... made me shake my head in amazement when even our worlds top paleontologists and/or their 'Superiors' above them seemed to be in disagreement battles over which fossils where the genuine animal..including this species!!
But, then again..when a Head Curator of Paleontology for one of the largest Museums in North American tells me something...I listen more and remember more as well!! HA!!!
TJE

 

[Jhaddad8]

The lab is just a classroom at rutgers where they put out fossils for the paleontology class to identify. Not some research lab.

I'm trying to remember more, but unfortunately I can't. But I am pretty sure I saw something very similar.

 

[Jhaddad8]

I also noticed that you used a Canadian penny for scale. Did you find this in Canada? May I ask roughly what region? Also was this whole piece in the bed rock or was it a piece of float.

 

[Las Vegas Bob]

From the pic looks like it might be a sand dollar.........just saying

 

[TJE]

Hello Jhaddad8, yes, these (2) specimens are from The Bruce Peninsula (Eromosa Formation), they're 'layer'
which we call 'black flagstone' is from below the bedrock of The Niagara Escarpment.
TJE

 

[TJE]

Hello Las Vegas Bob, thanks for the input, I've sand dollars (newage & fossilized)...but pretty sure these specimens are not (sand dollars only have five segments).
Thanks for your interest!
TJE

 

[huntress104]

I don't have a clue as to what it might be but I think it looks like a small upside down horseshoe crab. I know they have been around for a long time. neat fossil!!

 

[TJE]

Hello huntress104, you never know, I never studied up or know much of the horseshoe crab, I don't know the size or body shape 430 million yrs. ago.. but these fellas seam smaller with a more spherical 'soft' body.
Thanks for research idea!
TJE