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Hi all,I'd appreciate your help with this Silurian Lake Michigan fossil from the Racine formation. I've done some research and found a family of Silurian colonial horn corals that have members which do look very much like my find. It's the Arachnophyllidae family. I'm not sure if they occur in the Racine formation though. Are these badly preserved stromatoporoid mamelons next to the horn coral? The rugose coral is growing on a stromatoporoid reef? Calyce detail: Here is a North American Silurian colonial coral that looks similar. It's Arachnophyll
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Hi, everyone, (Just a note that this isn't my specimen or photos -- it was posted earlier today on the Fossil Forum facebook group, and my curiosity over what it is has been bothering me all day. The OP found it along the shore of Delaware Bay years ago, he thinks. Not sure whether he was on the Delaware or NJ side) My guess is that it's a colonial rugose coral like Palaeophyllum, mainly because the longitudinal corallite cross sections in the second photo don't look like heliolitid corallites all packed together, bigger and smaller. But if it is a rugose co
