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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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Hi guys! It's been a while since I've posted here but I wanted to share some of the things we found yesterday out at the beach I know that I have a lot of teeth & stingray parts, but I'm not sure about some of these other bones.. anyone able to make some IDs here? The non-fossil bones were discovered by my husband and he said he thinks they are from a dolphin. I'm interested in finding out info for the photo with 9 items, the brown thing in the center is about one inch for scale. Thanks!
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I have collected lots of coral from southwest South Dakota. I believe the majority is horn coral. Despite having a few publications and checking the web, I have several I'm not sure of. A lot of what I find looks agatized. I have attached a photo of what I am guessing is chaetetes coral? Would ove some input. If if someone can suggest a listing of Fossil coral, sponges and Bryozoans with detailed photos or identification, I'd appreciate it. I feel like I have an idea on most of it, just not 100%. Many Thanks!
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More from the new workshop - Eldredgeops multi w/coral
DevonianDigger posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
So, in my previous post, "Day One In The New Workshop", I had posted a pic of a plate that I had hoped would be an Eldredgeops rana mass mortality plate. I decided to do some work on it to see if there were any more than the two hiding in the matrix. Apparently the rest of the trilobites opted for the blue pill. Turns out there was just the two, one enrolled, one prone, and neither 100% complete. There was also a nice little piece of what would appear to be Streptelasma ungula coral. I have been asked several times to "blog" about my prep work as I go. In an attempt to abide, I am going to try and share as I go with this piece and others! So, after some initial prep, it looked a little better. Once I determined that these little fellas were not with friends, I used my Dremel engraver to rough out and shape the surrounding matrix. I did, at one point, accidentally pop the lentil-sized roller off of the matrix. Thankfully, I had the foresight to hold down the actual fossils with my thumb as I was working around them, thus denying him the opportunity to experience flight. In the above picture you can see that I started to smooth out the rough cuts surrounding them. I did this with my secret weapon, the tattoo machine with a 7RL needle. As you can see in the final picture from the day (above), I started to prep out the coral and continued to contour around the "bases" of the two bugs. You can also see that the roller has a squished head, and that there is a small piece missing from the right eye of the prone. (As I mentioned earlier, neither of the two were in perfect shape to begin with.) In my next post for this one, I will show the surrounding matrix contoured out and hopefully more detail on the buglets. This is proving to be a tricky prep as they are tiny! (See below) Next time, I will try to get more "step-by-step" pictures to walk through the entire process!.thumb.jpg.3a5910d0c47d9cf4dace0d92722833a2.jpg)
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Hello again! Surprsingly, there's a part 2 to our fossil hunting! This is just as much a surprises for us than for you. Yesterday we went to visit some beaches recommended by the reception. The first one we went to was Benagil. This beach is famous for its huge cliffs, and especially for a special cave only accessible by boat. Unfortunately there was no boat to take us, so we just rested on the beach. That's when I noticed that the cliffs were exactly like those that we saw at Oura (see previous post on the Formação dos Olhos de Ãgua), so I started to look for fossils. And of course, there were plenty! Unfortunately I still didn't have a hammer, as I didn't know we would go fossil hunting again, but I found another way to carve out the fossils from the cliffs. I took a piece of a big (modern) Pectens (scallop), which was shaped like a knife, and scratched around the fossils I saw to carve them out. I was surprised by the softness of the matrix around them: it easily went away with the "knife". As you can see in this picture, there were some recent landslides that occurred. No wonder there's a "Warning: Rock Falling!" sign!
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Micrabacia hilgardi (side view) Late Cretaceous solitary coral Found 2016 Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Micrabacia hilgardi (view of attachment point) Late Cretaceous solitary coral Found 2016 Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware-
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I was going through my childhood collection and noticed some fossil corals and a porous rock got fuzzy. White stuff got on my hands when I handled them. Looking closer, I saw some tiny things reflecting light. They are maybe 0.1mm thick at most. The coral above has the biggest ones. The crystals are too small on the other ones for pictures. Here are the microscope photos: The crystals do not stick to the rocks well. They come off when I touch them or put them down. This is a chunk that fell off when a coral was put down for the photos: I am very curious what is happening. I have had these corals and rock for 10-20 years and never saw crystals on them. I have even used some of them in my fish tank, so if the crystals were formed before then, they should have all fallen off. But, it seems quite implausible that crystals could grow naturally in such a short time. My cupboard certainly doesn't have strange chemicals floating in the air :P, and many other corals and rocks stored in the same box were unaffected. I wonder what could have caused this?
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs Maryland 12/10/2016
I believe this is a form of coral but am not certain. I've recovered a few of these and the color is rust, but that's due to the absorption of the brackish water in the bay. -
So I found a few interesting things today all within a short distance of each other... my question is about the two larger "rocks" they don't seem to be rocks but I am not sure what else they would be? They are very soft..the one maybe looks like coal? Also wondering what type of coral I have! And what the white/brown "rock" is? And another couple of things maybe some can ID ?? Thanks Specimen 1 Specimen 2
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I'm new to the site, first post, great forum. My son and I found these in Devonian shale in Eastern PA. We also found Brachiopods. I thought maybe some type of coral? Scale is inches. Thanks for your help!
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So I'm still cleaning up this coral.. it's taking a while with a chisel and nail tools! I'm hoping there is some kind of crystallization in the coral but I have no idea where to go from here.. also, I'm thinking it might be oculina sarasotana? Any thoughts on this one? I can't really find much similar when I search.. I know I posted it before but I'm hoping maybe it looks a little clearer now.. there are a couple of holes in the coral I'm wondering if that is where I should cut? Maybe in the back? It's still a little sandy, but this is one solid chunk otherwise...the coral is also on the back.
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Any ideas on this one? Part of it looks like coral.. Sarasota, FL
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Okay so I posted this on a rock ID forum earlier today and was told "limestone with coral".. I'm so new to this but I'm finding these in my yard. So my questions are, is the yellow stuff the coral? Does anyone here know about tampa coral- if not and you are interested do a quick Google! I want to know if I should saw this open or not! Thanks guys !!! More pics in comments!
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Hello everyone. This is my first post. I've had this fossil ever since my father gave it to me as a kid. I know a friend of his gave it to him to give to me so i don't have any information about it other than that. I've always suspected a coral of some sort. This is really the first time i've tried to identify it more clearly. The closest i found on line in pictures were horn coral like caninia torquoia. I tried to get the best pictures i could to post of it with any markings.
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As I sit here posting my specimens for ID, the thermometer sits at 24. My fossil hunting days are soon to be put on hold. The two fossils that I posted are Ordovician found last week in SE Minnesota, NE Iowa. Both were in collapse piles so definitive strata is unknown. It would be nice to ID the trilobite so I know what to watch out for as I prep it further. The other specimen is something I come across occasionally and have always attributed it to a coral. But as I looked at this piece, the cone tips come out of the matrix, opposite to what I would expect. Now I am thinking a bryozoan? This is nothing impressive, but I love to understand what I find.
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Hi colleagues and friends, I have been findind and often collecting tose eye catching elongated fossil corals on the Hispaniola island, like "Pirouline's rolled wafers". They have a cavity inside on mostly case and have up to 3 inches diameter I guess. As I'm not very familiar with these coral fossils, can you please help me to ID these fossilized corals and comment anything about the environment, ages, behaviors, occurrence, distribution, etc. Thanks a lot for youn kindly help colleagues!
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Thought I'd share my prettiest find yet. I'm a newbie but love looking for the agatized coral especially. Through research I was able to find some spots. I have now collected many beautiful pieces however this one is my best yet. I go every weekend in search. The picture doesn't do the piece justice. The smaller piece looks a lot pinker than the picture show. 14997469_1161248773961367_5297713581180059648_n.mp4
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After waking up to snow in our yard back home in Massachusetts my wife and I are enjoying a week of great fall weather on our New Jersey vacation. Since nobody in their right mind would vacation without a bit of fossil hunting we threw a few shovels and sifters in the car before we left and stuffed a pile of ziploc bags into our suitcases. We waded through Big Brook yesterday and made few finds, though not as much as we had hoped. I'll post these soon. We spent the previous day at Cape May, enjoying the warm weather strolling along a sandy beach near Cape May lighthouse ... ... and picking through the surf-tumbled stones of Sunset Beach. We found one large coral on the sandy beach and several water-worn corals among the rounded stones of Sunset Beach. While there are Pleistocene formations offshore, I believe these corals are from a much earlier period and transported later by glacial activity and runoff. Correct me if I'm wrong. Just off the beach sits the wreck of the SS Atlantus, a concrete ship built at the end of WWI and later grounded by a storm as it was being towed to Cape May in 1926. There's not much of it left anymore.
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i am the new person with stuff that i need help with. located at indian shores beach near clearwater florida
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Hello everyone! Yesterday afternoon I went out to my usual site (Etobicoke Creek, Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician) and I found a couple of items that I've not found before... Specimen #1: possible trilobite trace fossil (Have I FINALLY found something that is trilobite-related for certain?!) Specimen #2: possible coral - the diameter of the corallites (if that's what they are) ranges from 2-3 mm Thanks for looking! Monica PS - I actually went out with both of my kids yesterday. Viola (almost 6 years old) found her usual stuff - lost of rocks containing crinoid discs. It was the first time I took William (3 years old) with me, and he actually found a fossil all by himself - it's just a rock that once had either a small orthocone nautiloid or a piece of crinoid stem in it, but he's pretty proud of himself
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Here are photos of today's find. Will you please advise? Is it Astrangia Lineata? Also, how does one determine if something is a fossil or how old it might be? Thank you very much!
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So, okay, I know more or less what I have here: some pretty shell conglomerate and coral that grew on a well-eaten shell, with just a little bit of bryozoan growing inside the lacey shell holes. Found in Avon, OBX, North Carolina. The question is, how old? I'm guessing pretty recent, but by how much? When did coral last grow off the Outer Banks?
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Can you please provide information about this fossil found in Duck, NC?
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