very small trilobite and bird

mclean

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We were lucky to notice the little trilobite, and there was a coral or shell that came of the side of the rock that looks like it has a bird painted on it. The little rock is pictured from both sides.
Would anyone know what type of coral or fossil it might have been
 

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TJE

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Hi mclean, good eyes..nice find ;) hard to tell..might be a gastropod even. Did your stone matrix come from the seaside?
 

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I may be wrong, but your item in the first photo looks too much like a fossil gastropod (Clam shell). JMO!



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The rock was found by a fresh water burn,
 

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The rock was found by a fresh water burn,
Age wise (trilobite and your unknown fossil)..there would have been saltwater sea back then.Paleontologist's say they have proof that Canadian trilo's and Scot/UK trilo's were from the same area/sea aged 400+ million yrs ago. Your trilobite looks identical to the one I chiseled/grinded/drilled into a necklace I've worn for 10 yrs or more! :) Hope you keep fossil hunting my friend! ;)
 

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Age wise (trilobite and your unknown fossil)..there would have been saltwater sea back then.Paleontologist's say they have proof that Canadian trilo's and Scot/UK trilo's were from the same area/sea aged 400+ million yrs ago. Your trilobite looks identical to the one I chiseled/grinded/drilled into a necklace I've worn for 10 yrs or more! :) Hope you keep fossil hunting my friend! ;)
Here is the one..comparison look familiar? ;)
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It's been dated from the Silurian/Cambrian time period.(430-500+million yr. age)
 

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I'll go along with the piece of trilobite pygidium (last segements of the hind end). But no way that is a bird or any piece of one. :laughing7:
 

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