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Hi, everyone. I found this rock yesterday in Illinois. I was thinking it could be petrified wood. I had my doubts, so posted elsewhere looking for an ID and received a response of “some type of coral”. Later in the night, while looking up fossil corals, I happened upon the word “Chaetetes“. When I looked it up, a few pictures seem like a close match…maybe exact? I’m wondering what the experienced think about it. Thank you.
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Hello my friends father found this weird rock in a stream near London, Ohio and was wondering what it was, it looks vaguly like some coral i think or maybe a mammoth tooth what do you think it is?
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Cincinnati Museum Center Donations
Sauropod19 posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Hi all! At last Friday’s Dry Dredgers meeting, I handed over the two Ordovician fossils below to Dr. Carl Brett for the Cincinnati Museum Center! Standard business card for scale. This coral, which I have wrongly been identifying as Favosites sp., is from the campus of Hanover College in Indiana, in their Dr. Daryl Karns trail system. This was donated with permission from the Hanover College Geology Faculty. This Treptoceras sp. comes from the US-68 road cut in Maysville, KY, Kope Formation.
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Hi, please could someone identify this fossil I found in st bees, lake district? thank you!
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Recently found this coral fossil which seems to match rugose corals from the Carboniferous, however it was found in the lower Chester River, Maryland, which is considered Paleocene. I was also suggested ‘eridiphyllum’ and ‘disphyllum’, also from older than expected periods.
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Or the tiny stuff I cant use to lift lol. Anyways first we have a nice big honeycomb coral, very sparkly, not sure why its like that.
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coral Really green guy here.Found this one the other day in Florida .Would like to know all about. Looks like coral to me. Thanks
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I found this specimen in the bed of Stonelick Creek in Batavia Ohio. This heavily tumbled specimen was very unlike all of the other Ordovician limestone shale rocks in the bed. Presumably it arrived there through one of three modes: 1) the creek carried it from a more distant source, 2) it could possibly have been carried by a glacier, or 3) Native Americans formerly lived there and it could be a manuport. At first I thought it might have been a meteorite but alas it I concluded it was a fossil due to the low iron content, the relatively low density and the bubbly nature of the specimen. The specimen is about 6 inches long and images coral1 and coral2 display the side and top of the specimen respectively. From the Atlas of Ordovician Life I suspect it is a tabulate coral of the syringophyllidae family and the Calapoecia genus. Is this reasonable? I would appreciate any comments.
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Hi! I’ve found a good amount of fossil shells and coral today. Some I’ve been able to search on this site an others for an ID. But there are a few I’m not sure of and also might not be shells or coral at all. I’ll list some pics below. Any help is appreciated!
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Found this today by a river in Eastern Texas. Wondering if it could be a coral fossil?
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Howdy, I was wondering if anybody could tell me what they think about these rare coral fossils that I find on the Oregon Coast. They are agatized and take a nice polish. Thank You
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Hello! I found this rock on a former river bed in a forest in Romania. If it helps, the rock type in this area is from pleistocene. I tried finding a simillar one with the same pattern and color but couldn’t find one. Thank you in advance! .
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My 14yr old daughter picked this out of the hillside about 100’ above creek level. We have property in the Slippery Rock gorge area of Western Pennsylvania. I’d like to give her an idea of what it is specifically and round about age if possible. I love her enthusiasm. This is her first find. The entire piece is roughly the size of my palm. Thank you.
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Hi, My niece found this fossil (?) in Paris, Kentucky on 2/4/24. Looks like coral but I would very much appreciate help with the identification. I searched online but I’m not exactly sure where to look. Would love to know what it is!! Thanks, CAGANNON
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These fossils are from old coast defences. They are probably from the region around Tournais, the type locality of the Tournaisian. Can someone help me to ID these? I cant find any good literature to ID these. thanks. Jasper
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I purchased this little rugose horn coral from a fossil, crystal and mineral dealer in Spain a few years back. The label is definitely wrong i at least that it should be Tryplasma loveni. I have T, loveni from the British Much Wenklock Limestome Formation and it looks rather different to this and I don't know of the species nbeing found in Morocco, The specimen doesn't look anything like any Ordovician coral I know, so may be Silurian. Most horn corals in Morocco are Devonian. But this does sort of look Silurian in the colour of its preservation, but that's not a great way to tell. It may not even be from Morocco, maybe Spanish, they sometimes say it's from Morocco as you are not supposed to collect, sell or export fossils in Spain, I think, so they sometimes change the country of origin. I have looked about a bit on the net but cannot find anything that matches, though I think I have seen the species before somewhere. Here are some better photos: Very pointed base: The top: Any guesses most welcome. Tarquin @TqB? Any ideas? Thank for looking everyone.
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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
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From the album: FOTM - Bone Valley Formation, Florida, USA
Siderastrea pliocenica complete coral colony , 43 millemeter diameter, Pliocene -
Recently I have taken interest in fossil hunting after discovering a plethora of fossils from some farmland in Southern Indiana. It is my understanding the fossils are from the Devonian period. My grandsons (5 and 6 years old) and I have collected several specimens I’ve the last couple of months. I have been searching the Internet for weeks trying to correctly identify our finds and just when I think I have something identified —I find other possibilities. I would like to make displays for the grandkids and label our other collections appropriately. I am in hopes this community would help identify the specimens, and provide advice on how best to label the fossils. I appreciate any assistance that can be provided. Thanks. —Bill Shingleton PS: All the fossils depicted are from Jeffersonville, IN.
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
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Hello everyone! I'm typically a Cretaceous collector but spent the last month in Long Beach Island (LBI) New Jersey so I figured while I'm there, I would do some serious collecting. These fossils are glacier deposited Paleozoic specimens. Overall, I probably spent around 30 hours collecting. My biggest surprise was the trilobite imprint (picture 1) however, I was also pleasantly surprised by the number of crystalized/geode specimens. Here my my favorites from the trip.
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Crows Feet? I’ve seen these in limestones but not in dolostones. Plenty of bits and pieces. I think Favosites and molds of crinoid columinals. More crinoid molds and both brachiopod molds and bits and pieces. Very very crystalized. But fun challenge.
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