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Hi Casba,

The second picture and the last picture are no fossils, the have a name for it but that slipped my mind (I\'m sure one of the other forummembers knows what I mean).

Gr

Martijn

[Bewerkt door Supergraver op 16-04-2007 om 20:59 NL]

Do you mean dentrite Martijn?

I don\'t think that the fossil showed on the last photo is a dendrite. Dendrite doesn\'t look like a straight line. It\'s form is more like a plant. Maybe a close- up can bring us some more information...
gr. robin

[Bewerkt door binbinneke op 17-04-2007 om 19:23 NL]

In the famous Solnhofen locality you also have a lot of dendrites, here is a Leptolepis sprattiformis from Solnhofen completely surrounded by dendrite
(iron-oxide)

These fossils are most likely also surrounded by dendrites, in this case it could be very interesting,

cheers,

Mark

By the way, the second stone is covered with two fossils clearly visible a half rotten leaf and a twig.

Fossil E is most definetly a branch.

Thanks everybody fro trying to help out. I figured out that Fossils C and D are most likely Lingula. If you have any opinion on that pls let me know.

Thanks again for your help.

I disagree with that. Lingula is a brachiopod, while your fossil is clearly a bivalve (some sort of \'clam\' in common language).
The other two fossils might be plant remains, that\'s difficult to tell from these pictures.

@ MarkW: The correct determination is LeptolepIDES (common error)

fossils C & D look like Unionid mussels to me. would make sense if they were found in close proximity to fossil plant material as both are likely to be found in freshwater deposits