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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Lophophyllidium spinosum Coral SITE LOCATION: Stephens County, Texas, USA TIME PERIOD: Pennsylvanian Period (299-323 Million Years ago) Data: Lophophyllidium is a genus (sometimes made the type of a family Lophophyllidiidae) of tetracorals common and widely distributed in central North American Upper Carboniferous formations. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Order: †Stauriida Family: †Lophophyllidiidae Genus: †Lophophyllidium Species: †spinosum-
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Lophophyllidium spinosum Coral SITE LOCATION: Stephens County, Texas, USA TIME PERIOD: Pennsylvanian Period (299-323 Million Years ago) Data: Lophophyllidium is a genus (sometimes made the type of a family Lophophyllidiidae) of tetracorals common and widely distributed in central North American Upper Carboniferous formations. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Order: †Stauriida Family: †Lophophyllidiidae Genus: †Lophophyllidium Species: †spinosum-
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From the album: Upper Visean fossils of Ireland
Fasciculate colonial Siphonodendron junceum. Corallites diameter up to 3 mm. No dissepiments. Galway , Ireland. -
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Beach finds I'd kept prior to becoming truly interested and adopting this as a hobby all surrounding a trace fossil that was one of a handful of pieces found 4 months ago that turned me into a rock netd -
From the album: Starting at the Beginning
Beach finds I'd kept prior to becoming truly interested and adopting this as a hobby all surrounding a trace fossil that was one of a handful of pieces found 4 months ago that turned me into a real rock nerd! I liked how they look as a set, so I framed them and hung them on my wall. -
Coral - Mississippian Period - Zaphrentis spinulosum.JPG
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Fossil Coral - Zaphrentis spinulosum Chesterian Zone of the Bangor Limestone Formation in northern Alabama Mississippian Period (ca 325,000,000 years old) Zaphrentis is a genus (sometimes made the type of the family Zaphrentidae) of solitary cup-shaped tetracorals that are common in Paleozoic formations and have numerous septa radiating from a deep pit in one side of the cup. Zaphrentis is one of the most widely used names in Paleozoic coral paleontology. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Order: Rugosa Family: Zaphrentidae Genus: Zaphrentis Species: spinulosa-
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Coral - Mississippian Period - Zaphrentis spinulosum.JPG
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Fossil Coral - Zaphrentis spinulosum Chesterian Zone of the Bangor Limestone Formation in northern Alabama Mississippian Period (ca 325,000,000 years old) Zaphrentis is a genus (sometimes made the type of the family Zaphrentidae) of solitary cup-shaped tetracorals that are common in Paleozoic formations and have numerous septa radiating from a deep pit in one side of the cup. Zaphrentis is one of the most widely used names in Paleozoic coral paleontology. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Genus: Zaphrentis Species: spinulosa-
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This place is just like Wrens Nest Dudley i.e. Silurian. I like both places but find different things at each. Personally I have found more Trilobites bits at Wrens Nest. 1 - Arachnophyllum murchisoni Coral, top view 2 - Amphistrophia funiculata Brachiopod 3 - Favosites Coral 4 - Halysites Coral 5 - Heliolites Coral 6 - Kodonophyllum truncatum Solitary Coral 7 - Labechia conferta Stromatoporoid sponge 8 - Leptaena depressa Brachiopod 9 - Trepostome Bryozoa
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From the album: Beltzville State Park
Solitary Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Rugose Coral External Mold Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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A few years ago, I found a fossilized something on the Beach at Cape Henlopen. It was embedded in quartz. It looked kinda like a belemnite, but the wrong material. I was told by Plax that it was much older than our cretaceous belemnites. I tucked it into a spot on the shelf and wondered about it. Since then I have seen a few posts here and there from folks in NJ finding nice little paleozoic pieces on their side of the bay as well. This summer, I made it a mission to explore the Delaware beaches and see what I could find and how far north they went. I began at the cape and worked my way north, one beach to a trip. Cape Henlopen's beach is rather lacking in pebbles this season, so not much to find, but I know they turn up! I have spotted them here and there in the intervening years. The next few trips were Bowers Beach. Oh, yeah! Some are impressions of brachiopods and crinoids are so tiny in big pebbles that is just isn't worth it to take them home and wonder where on that pitted rock I found something recognizable. Others are very distinct chunks of coral replaced with chert, some with crystal quartz in the gaps between structural elements. Each time, I came home with a couple of fistfuls of nice little pieces, mostly about 1" across. The next stop was the beach in Battery Park, in New Castle. This is not a nice bathing beach. It is on a heavily-industrialized section of the Delaware River. The beach is littered with slag, brick, glass and bits of other man-made "rock." But, the black slag definitely allows the brown chert to stand out more. Bingo! The prettiest horn coral I've found yet, plus a few other nice goodies. All told, I came home with about as much as I usually find at Bowers, but cutting my travel time from over an hour to just 20 minutes. *Insert Happy Dance Here!* The last stop was a rare little stretch of river bank in Claymont, a mile or so from the northern border. The stretch was pretty narrow and short. There were plenty of pebbles, but not much chert. Nothing distinctly fossilized. Oh, yeah, and on the way BACK, I found, facing into the woods and hidden by the vegetation, a "No Trespassing" sign. Now they tell me. Ah, well, now I know it isn't worth the trouble anyway. The Delaware Geological Survey, as far as I can find, has no public record of fossils at the beach. They note the Cretaceous at the C&D Canal, the Miocene in a farm field that got bulldozed for a highway, Pleistocene silicified wood in the fields and streams just south of the canal, and plant impressions from the canal down to the southern border. The corals and other marine impressions in the chert are Paleozoic, possibly Devonian or Silurian, but no one seems quite sure. They were part of the ancient sea bed when the Cretaceous stuff at the canal was still alive and can be found in the pebbles there, too, occasionally. I find it really neat and kind of surreal to think about all those fossils that were ancient when my ancient sea shells were still alive.
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose Coral Paleozoic Delaware River, New Castle, Delaware -
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Rugose Coral Paleozoic Delaware River, New Castle, Delaware -
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Possibly Syringopora Paleozoic Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware -
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Rugose Coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
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Rugose Coral Paleozoic Lewes, Delaware -
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Found on the beach in New Castle, Delaware. Known Paleozoic fossil area. Identity unknown. -
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Rugose "Horn" Coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
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Tabulate coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
A few weeks ago, my sister and I collected a number of what we believe are coral specimens from the Hartselle Sandstone Formation of the Mississippian Period in northwest Alabama, near Russellville. They appeared to resemble some pictures of certain sponges and corals. However, after reading Juan Emnanuel's trip report on the Credit River in Mississauga, Ont., I saw some pics of coral he found, Favistella, which look very similar. So, I am posting the following pics for help in formally identifying those that we have. Thank you very much in advance. The first one, pics 1 and 2, is 5cm x 2.5cm in a hash matrix of bryozoan fronds and brachiopods. Quarter for scale, also. The second, pics 3 and 4, show the same pattern, 3.5cm x 3.5cm, in the lower, smaller area of the matrix stone and the crystallized cross section of the flat area of the fossil. The same type of bryozoan hash overlies much of this piece. In addition, these fossils are heavier than the other fossils (non coral) that we found that day, which makes me wonder if all the coral pieces are crystallized like pic 4 indicates.
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From the album: Cretaceous
Trochocyathus woolman (Scleractina or Stony Coral) Upper Cretaceous Woodbury Formation Old Stone Bridge Site New Jersey A generous gift from John (fossilsofnj)-
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Found in the loose sand spoils from the 1980 dredging of the C&D Canal. Flower shape is the attachment point.
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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
Rugose.