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I found this fossil while doing my fieldwork in limestone area. Description below may help to identify it.

Location: NW Perlis, Malaysia (Setul Formation). Hilly Area.

My Observation:

  1. Have a curly shape
  2. It have line and look like a suture
  3. Does not have visible feature of cephalopod like septa and chamber.
  4. It can be found between layer of stromatolite
  5. Other fossil found nearby: gastropod, cephalopod and brachiopod (most of this fossil already have been damage but the shape still good and can easily identify it.

Size of the coin: 2.2 cm.

I hope this information is helping to identify the fossil. Thanks.

Plan View of the fossil and its has curly shape

Look like a suture

The "suture" still can be seen from the inside

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    $\begingroup$ Welcome to the site. Please include location and description of the place where you found it. Is there something else you can improve in your question $\endgroup$
    – user20559
    May 22, 2021 at 12:39
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    $\begingroup$ @Universal_learner already edit based on your guidelines. I hope it help but correct me if i am wrong. thanks for your comment. $\endgroup$
    – mrm9719
    May 22, 2021 at 13:57
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you. Upvoted. We have some paleontologists in the site. Let's see if you can have an answer $\endgroup$
    – user20559
    May 22, 2021 at 15:43
  • $\begingroup$ I have started a bounty because you provided info and this is a good question. Let's see if someone answer you! $\endgroup$
    – user20559
    Jun 6, 2021 at 18:01
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    $\begingroup$ changing the title to indicate it is a marine fossil will help get more traffic. But you may have to take it to a museum, Cambrian fossils can be particularly difficult to identify quickly, since they are so different than things alive today. you need someone vert familiar with Cambrian fossils. $\endgroup$
    – John
    Jun 9, 2021 at 3:14

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it looks like a gastropod, as there are no septa. Maybe it is Malayaspira, which is Ordovician

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