Re: paleonet More on KY mystery fossil

[Raymond Gildner <macops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all,

The description of lithology was helpful to me. I'm voting with those 
who are claiming a nautiloid affinity. The mode of preservation is 
nearly identical to that in the (Ordovician) Utica Shale of the 
Mohawk River Valley in New York state. That also is a "thin 
laminated, fissile, black carbonaceous pyritic shale." I take it that 
the compaction of the shale is great enough to collapse the shell, 
leaving a characteristic (diagnostic?) form.

Yours,
Ray Gildner