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Hi all, Harwich in Essex, U.K. is mostly famous for The Mayflower but it does have a small beach on which sharks teeth can be found. My wife and kids were lucky to find some but I was not so lucky. I did however find this. Could this possibly be an inclusion of a piece of coral in a flint nodule? If so is there any way to determine species and a possible age? Thanks in advance!
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neat rock with a ton of corals and bryozoans in it
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, this is Matt again. Today I found a fossil with a nice favosites coral in it and a lot of bryozoans also in it. Here are a few photos :
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Picked up while beach combing. Thoughts?
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From the album: Prae's Collection (REMPC)
Fossil Coral - Indeterminate species Devonian Bull River site Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada-
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Hey all! I took my little brother out fossil hunting on the lakeshore, I myself am no expert but it's been a lot of fun- we found a number of crinoid and brachiopod fossils and some cool rocks besides. Theres a couple that stumped us though, I've been googling references but nothing looks similar to me. It looked to me like some kind of coral, the second one might just be a rock with some holes in it, but they appear in a fairly regular pattern that intrigued me. Any input is appreciated!
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Found along the shores of the North Channel at Little Current, Manitoulin Island. Slightly domed. Knobby outside, crystalline (calcite?) inside.
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These are all from my gravel drive. Please, educate this novice!
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These are all from my gravel drive. Please, educate this novice! Let me add (I'm new here so bear with): I found this bad boy in my driveway right after I moved here I had no idea what I'd found. But, after that, I was hooked!!!
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I found this under a few inches of dirt in my yard. I've lived here since 2004 so surprised to find it. This novice is curious to figure out what it is, how common this is to find, possible age... I'm about 5 miles from the Puget Sound outside Seattle and at 500 ft above sea level so guessing it was brought to where I found it. Can almost make out tiny shells in some of the holes. It's quite heavy and slightly larger than a football. Thanks community!
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Hi all I have over the past month been treating this vintage engineers drawers for Woodworm. I added new legs and it is clear now of them pests . When you live in an old house woodworms can be costly. The draws have been out of use for sometime now . So today was it was great to get to fill them right up. Here is some of collection of corals and other bids in their new home. Because of my dyslexic I will not even go there, regarding adding the coral info . I would be in a world of confusion, sorry. thanks for looking Bobby.
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I found this in gravel at Burger King (!). I really don't know what it is and would love for someone to please educate me! The whole "blob" is about 3 inches long and 2 .5 inches high.
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Getting back into fossil hunting to get some exercise and relaxation. One of my few hobbies that don’t cost much. Mostly hunting creeks for shark teeth and what ever else I find.
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Hello everyone. My daughter found this today on a beach in Alpena. We know it’s a coral, and so far, two folks suspect it is possibly Heliophyllum. I’m unfamiliar with that species and have nothing to compare it to. Just wondering if anyone else has seen something similar?
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I found what looks to me to be a coral fossil in a stream in Kent county Maryland and I would like some help identifying it. I tried to make my pictures as clear as possible but the fossil is really small. If a picture from a different angle would be helpful please let me know. Thanks in advance!
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Went out to a railcut that slices through upper Racine formation. This locality is only 10 minutes from my house. I almost never visit it because of scarcity of fossils, however I was reading a paper that mentioned forams in chert and decided to take another look. Here you can see the beds dipping gently to the east. This is interreef strata. Closeby is/was a huge reef, now filled with garbage. Here is a chert nodule to be sliced up. Also, found a silicified coral and packed in my bag. Disturbed this guys slumber. Silicified Favosites coral slice. Interesting to see sediment infilling. Microscope pics showing tabulae. These are just quick slices using a tile saw and submerged in water to bring out detail. Chert slices magnified. It appears to be echinoderm debris and possibly some coral spicules? (Correct me if I'm wrong about the spicules...) Columnal with spines. And finally, I believe this is a foram, the only one I could find. Difficult to photograph. Thanks for reading.
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I found this about 8 years ago in a dried up creek bed behind my house in the hills of Hayward, California in the San Francisco bay area, USA. We dug it out of some dry but soft sediment and I assumed I found a fungus/mushroom of some sort but now Im not so sure. I am a hobby collector and love it no matter what it is but I would love to have an actual identification. Thanks!
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Check out this coral/sponge I broke out of a rock today with a hand sledge hammer today in the creek
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek, I found this big rock with a great looking fossil sponge/coral in it. I some how got lucky when I hit it with my hand sledge hammer , when the fossil coral/sponge came out complete from the rock. Here are 2 photos:
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cool favosites coral I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Take a look at this great looking Favosites coral I found in the creek today Here is a photo:
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Hi! I work at a children's museum in Tennessee, and we go out to local elementary schools and teach science lessons. One of them is on fossils... how they form, how they are found, what they can tell us about life in the past, etc. I have been tasked with organizing our materials for this particular lesson to give to our new teachers. In cleaning out some bins, I found the fossils I have attached below. I have no idea where the museum got them, but my feeling is they have been in our possession a while. I would really like to attach a name to these fossils, what the date range might be, and any other information that would bring these fossils to life, so to speak. Kids love this stuff and I feel they need to be told all the information we can possibly give them, rather than just "it's a fish." Generally I have a plant (?), a fish, and a complete mystery (to me)...coral? sponge? If you need better images, please let me know. So, wonderful Fossil Forum, please do your thing! I and many children thank you in advance! Karla
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Hi, my son was desperate to find a fossil.while on holiday. Can you help identify the 2 things we found? A geologist friend suggested one is coral. The pitted texture seems to go right through to the other side. Thanks for any help. Aileen
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek, I found this odd coral or sponge fossil. Does anyone know what one it is ? Here is a photo:
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Found these at Salt Point beach of Cayuga lake. Are these rugosa corals? The length range is from 0.5 cm to 2.5 cm. Thank you!
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The James river was not what I had expected. I was hoping to find a meg the size of my hand, but that didn’t happen. No worries, I had a lot of fun. I saw a river otter, a lot of osprey, eagles, and more wildlife which was fun to look at from a distance. The first day of the trip, we went over the east over formation, I collected mostly whale bone from that day and nothing else spectacular. It was only when we went to a Yorktown exposure on the last hour of the trip that I found three stunning chesapectens, including what I think the biggest one to be a jeffersonius. Later that day, I went to a nearby creek in Williamsburg where I found the large red ecphora from. The third day, I found some beautiful Gastropods including another ecohora, a whelk, and a beautiful olive shell with a nice gleam on it (no I didn’t apply anything it’s naturally shiny). And besides the olive, the best finds of the day include the large coral and the large colonial wine bottle bottom, which is one of my favorite artifacts I have even though it’s incomplete. Anyways, enough talking, here’s some of the photos from that trip. the total haul: whale bone and gastropods: gastropods. The red ecphora was found in a creek and the olive shell is one of my favorite gastropods found that day. It’s definitely a stunner! here’s the chesapectens I found, including what I think is a jeffersonius on the top left. large piece of coral. colonial wine bottle bottom. This was found near nathaniel bacons castle so maybe nathaniel bacon and his posse of evil doers came through this area? It’s a stretch but that’s my hypothesis. Next week I’m taking some kayaks out and I’m getting a large megalodon tooth. I can’t keep festering in my squalor knowing that I don’t have a large tooth in my collection this year yet. It just isn’t right.
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A recent find. Has a texture that could be bark, but I am leaning towards coral.
