West Virginia Brachiopod Identification
Brachiopod is a realistic West Virginia fossil profile built around two-shelled filter feeder that dominates many Paleozoic limestone beds. In this state, success usually comes from learning Devonian shales, Mississippian limestones, and glacial gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Key Traits
- ●bilateral symmetry through shell
- ●pedicle opening
- ●fine radial ribs
- ●Check Devonian shales, Mississippian limestones, and glacial gravels
Era
Paleozoic
Type
marine invertebrate
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