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    By Stingray

    Taxonomy

    tabulate coral

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Cnidaria
    Class: Anthozoa
    Order: Tabulata
    Family: Favositidae
    Genus: Favosites
    Species: Favosites helderbergiae?
    Author Citation Lamarck 1816

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Paleozoic
    Period: Devonian
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Early

    Helderberg Group

    Provenance

    Date Collected: 09/29/2016
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 10 "
    Width: 6 "
    Height: 4 "

    Location

    Herkimer County RT 20
    NY
    United States

    Comments

    Originally posted as a Stromatalite, was confirmed to be a tabulate coral.

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    doushantuo

    Not sure about the citation.

    I THINK you mean Reitner/Queric/Reich,eds.

    Oncolites(plural) is a sedimentological term and not a species,hence I'm not putting it in italics

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    Stingray

    Thanks as usual there is always some watching out for someone else

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    Wrangellian

    I think you've got a colonial coral here (Favosites?), I can see corallites on the top.

    Nice specimen whatever it is.

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    Jeffrey P
    3 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

    I think you've got a colonial coral here (Favosites?), I can see corallites on the top.

    Nice specimen whatever it is.

    Cleaned up now I can see the corallites. I think he's right. If it is Favosites it is an exceptionally fine complete one. Congratulations.

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    TqB

    From Tim/Fossildude19: "The area around Route 20 is the Helderberg Group,  Kalkberg Formation, Kalkberg Limestone . It is Lower Devonian, and the Favositid coral known from there is Favosites helderbergiae."

     

    There isn't actually enough detail on this to ID from photographs alone. Tabulate corals are notoriously tricky and many look very similar; sections and a specialist are often required. So this is an ID based on provenance. 

     

    Great specimen!

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