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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 -
Hello Everyone, I recently moved to western Kentucky and have been finding a ton of fossils here. I think a lot of what I've been finding are corals, crinoids, and brachiopods. I found a few fossils that I can't find online. I have no idea what they are. They washed out of a hillside on Kentucky lake in western Kentucky. The specific geology where I found them had a lot of strangely welded rock seams, geodes and a looked like the material may not have originated there (maybe moved through some geologic process). The rocks where I am are mostly limestone. The ones I can't Identify are the slightly spiraled ones. The other picture Is a nice coral (I think) specimen from the same location. Any Idea on what they are? Thanks!
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Hello, I received this specimen that I believe is a fossilized coral or perhaps a fossilized sponge and am looking for help in identifying the species and age for a museums collection. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks, Holly
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My brother found this fossil in Pond Run in Hamilton, Nj. The rock in this area is mostly Triassic and Cretacious, with a small area of rock from the Cambrian. On both sides it has many ridges, and on the front you can see that most of the ridges start in the same area. Front Back I hope that you can identify this. Thank you in advance.
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Sorry about posting to many photos and continued post Picked up a couple of suggestive shaped rock forms found in the Kimmeridge clay, which if I can sufficiently remove some of the finest pyrite cubic crystals I’ve ever seen. May contain some bone material underneath. But for the time being I’ve noticed these fossils protruding through some of the pyrite matrix and loose in washed matrix. Continued: I have done some homework searching for coral / echinoid spines from the Kimmeridge clay but have not found any reference to such a fossil so far. As I think they have that tell-tale appearance about them. All suggestions and help would be most welcome. Scale bar is in millimetre sections.
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I was doing some fall work in the garden and I dug a hole deeper than usual to start a compost pile and this was in the ground. It ppears to be coral or something. Can anyone see an outline or give any advice? I didn’t try to clean it as it seemed to be fragile. Thanks!
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When I was gardening this past summer I lucked out and found a fossil. For years (this garden is over twenty years in the making) I have been pulling shale out of it. This was my first fossil. With the help of some good books on fossils, and this group I have come close to identifying this fossil. It is possibly a coral. I am interested to know what time period this fossil may have come from. I do know that my area of the east end of Toronto used to be an inland sea. I'm curious to know what it might be, and excited for what next year might have in store for me.
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Last week i found this rock at the same area where I found some coral fossils in Pantai Cimaja, Sukabumi. Different from the common Indonesian fossil coral and just have no idea of what this might be. Any information is much appreciated.
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Had a great day out with Candace and Nick @thelivingdead531 @Barerootbonsai Friday 20th. Here are a few of my finds, I’ll post the hash plates when I’ve photographed them. We all got a great variety of finds, here are some of mine. I’m sure Nick and Candace will add to this thread.
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Fossil Coral Reefs Show Late Pleistocene Sea Level Rose in Bursts
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming Reefs near Texas endured punctuated bursts of sea-level rise before drowning, Jade Boyd, Rice university, October 19, 2017 http://news.rice.edu/2017/10/19/fossil-coral-reefs-show-sea-level-rose-in-bursts-during-last-warming-2/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019100954.htm Pankaj Khanna, André W. Droxler, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, John W. Tunnell Jr, Thomas C. Shirley. Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated sea-level rise during the last deglaciation. Nature Communications, 2017; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00966-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00966-x Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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Hi, I was given this coral as a present and after much googling I can't identify it. All I know is it comes from Stara Planina Mountain in Serbia. any help would be greatly appreciated
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Hi, Here is another specimen I have received that I need help identifying the species and age of for a museums collection. Any help would be greatly appreciated! The person who brought it to me had no idea of what it was and could not recall where they had found it. Thanks, Holly
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Hello! I collected this rounded stone in Southern Ohio, actually to paint on originally, and became enamored with what appears to be a fossil algae on top so kept in in my collection. Recently I inspected it through a loupe and noticed the sponge like pores for the first time. I tried to show in the photos that there is a transition or directional grain to the pores that I've seen in whale bones and sponges that washed ashore when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. It's sized at about six inches at the widest, and is a sandstone rather than the expected limestone. What do you think? Is it a sponge or a type of coral?
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Greetings....On a recent visit to Lake Champlain I came across the attached items near the shore of Crown Point. These were eroded out of the bedrock and laying in the sand. On view they look like worm trace or maybe coral..? Any ideas please comment by return...and thanks.
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Samphire Hoe, Sussex is not far from Dover and was created by dumping stuff from the digging of the Channel Tunnel. It is a wonderful nature reserve, has a small shop/café, access to the beach and chalk fossils are easy to find on the surface of the fallen blocks. Mobile phone service is a bit weird as my phone connected and said Welcome to France, but Dutch tourists there had English connection. Good job there is a pay phone. Here are just a few of the bits I took a photo of. Not completely prepped yet but you get the idea of what can be found. Some are micro fossils from the dust as chalk easy to break down or scoop up from the bottom of the cliff. 1 - common foram 2 - Ramulina foram 3 - Tiny tooth next to Tritaxia foram ( let me know if I have got my ID wrong) 4 - Fish scale 5 - Bivalve with encrusting bryozoa 6 & 7 -Onchotrochus serpentinus Corallite overhead view and of one end confirming not a serpula 7 to 9 - What I think is shed isopod skin, NHM could not ID it but then they sent it to the fish department.
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I have only visited this place once as it is a bit of a hike to get to. Hopefully I will attach the photos in the correct order otherwise 1 - Deshayeites forbesi 2 - Deshayeites forbesi showing in tact siphuncle same specimen as 1 3 - Inside view of part of an Amia fish scull, the museum knew exactly which part I have no idea without looking out the paper they gave me. 4- Part of a lobster leg with small gastropod to the left. 5 - Lobster antenna 6 - Fish fin spine 7 - Holocystis elegans coral
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Hi guys. Thanks to everyone who helped me with my last IDs. I have some more that I'm stumped about from the same area in Eastern Missouri. This first one looks like the echinoids I found in the Cretaceous in Texas. It's about the same size and shape with the same very small spines or tubercles on it. This other one resembles the possible echinoid but is a flat plate with the same small bumps.
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Found this on the Frio River after a good rain. It has round crystals unless they are eggs. I also thought it could be coral. Can anyone tell what this is?
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Found this on our bluff, part of Niagara Escarpment, tip of Door County, Wisconsin. Would love any more detail.
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I found this fossil imprint (that's probably not the right terminology) on a rock last month in northern Michigan. It measures 2" x 2", and in places there seems to be a honeycomb pattern. What's with the tubular piece?
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My family and I usually visit the Frio River in Leakey, Tx every summer. A few years ago we were all set to go swimming but upon arriving we saw that the part of the river we usually frequent had dried up. I decided to make the best of it and explored the dried river bed looking for anything interesting when this isolated chunk of rock caught my eye. I picked it up off the ground, took it home with me, put it in a drawer and forgot about it. A few months ago I found it while doing some cleaning and realized it had to be something more than just an oddly shaped rock. I cleaned it with water and a toothbrush after reading online that that's a simple way to clean fossils. A friend of mine with limited knowledge of fossils suspected it was some kind of fossilized coral or sponge. What I originally thought was matrix does look a lot like syringopora, but I can't find pictures of any prehistoric coral fossils that match the appearance of that hot dog in the center! I saw a sperm whale tooth on this forum that looks similar but I'm not sure if what I found feels like a tooth. It feels way too smooth to me. I love fossils and I own some shark teeth, coprolite, and a little trilobite, but those were all bought. If whatever this is turns out to be something, then it would be the first fossil I've ever acutally found myself. I'm still really new to this so please forgive me if I am asking silly questions or submitting this incorrectly. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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From the album: Beltzville State Park
Solitary Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
From the album: Beltzville State Park
Rugose Coral External Mold Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
From the album: Beltzville State Park
Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA
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