1. Data: This fossil came from the Fernie Moresy Creek area, British Columbia . It has a diameter of 32 mm. It has been mineralized with pyrite.

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• The pyrite (marcasite?) may be just a concretion, not a fossil. Allen A.

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The crescent moon-shaped fossils average about 1 cm. in length
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1. & 4. The crescent moon-shaped fossils

• The crescent shapes look like cross sections of a brachiopod. The wavy area may be a part of a brachiopod too...Allen A.
• Probably all the fossils enclosed in the rock (sandstone?) are brachiopods, of various groups. The small three lobed shell near the first cross section is a brachiopod too. The fingernail is just a brachiopod too. Brachiopods are the most common Paleozoic fossil as they are very numerous in species, occur together in large numbers, are most likely to be preserved and lived in a wide variety of environments...Allen A.

2. ?? Trilobite shaped fossil

• The second fossil I think may be Trilbites http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/fossils/trilobite.html
• Probably all the fossils enclosed in the rock (sandstone?) are brachiopods, of various groups. The small three lobed shell near the first cross section is a brachiopod too. The fingernail is just a brachiopod too. Brachiopods are the most common Paleozoic fossil as they are very numerous in species, occur together in large numbers, are most likely to be preserved and lived in a wide variety of environments...Allen A.

3. Finger-nail shaped

• Probably all the fossils enclosed in the rock (sandstone?) are brachiopods, of various groups. The small three lobed shell near the first cross section is a brachiopod too. The fingernail is just a brachiopod too. Brachiopods are the most common Paleozoic fossil as they are very numerous in species, occur together in large numbers, are most likely to be preserved and lived in a wide variety of environments...Allen A.