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Hi there, I found this rock, that I believe to be petrified wood that might also contain coral larvae, about 20 years ago on the beach at Fort Desoto in Tampa Bay. Im a complete amateur- assume I know nothing. It’s extremely brittle - like chalk or limestone so I don’t want to try to polish it. It doesn’t quite fit any descriptions I’ve seen online. Anyhow, I’d love to get some nerdy obsessive details and or opinions about this specimen - the type of wood, why it’s so brittle and a guess at how old it may be. Thank you!
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Hello!! I recently found a beautiful piece of (what I now know) seems to be honeycomb fossilized coral. I found it on my farm in Tennessee along with many other small fragments of this type of coral. This is the largest piece I have found and would love to know more about it!! I’d mostly like to find out close to how old it actually is? If anyone has some insight on this I’d love the help! Thank you!
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I'd help please. The vendor showed me her monitor screen, showing the hard to read journal entries from the 1950's 1960's. The name shown seems like it should be spelled Astrhelia, not finding what singleyi means? Pictures of Astrhelia palmata Fossilized Coral is a good match. Eocene Claiborne Formation. Stone City, Texas Age range: 33.9 to 11.608 Ma 11 mm long.
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Hello, my son and I found this fossilized coral, or what we think is coral, in a dried up creek bed. We were wondering what type of coral is it, what period did it come from and potentially what it can tell us about the prehistoric history of he area we live in. it was found in middle Tennessee, Montgomery county to be more precise. lastly, does it have any value? I relocate a lot for my job and we have no use for a 25 lbs chunk of fossilized coral.
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Hi I am new to forums so I hope Im doing this right. I live in Ypsilanti Mi. I was getti g some soil from the woods behind my house for some garden beds. I found this about a foot down. I looked up some pictures and it looks like fossilized coral to me, but I dont know much about fossils. Could anyone tell me what it is and maybe how old it could be? Any info would be awesome! Thank you!
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From the album: Fossilized Coral Head
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From the album: Alafia River Coral
To quote www.paleoportal.org, "[Florida's] state stone is a fossilized coral (Montastreasp. is pictured) that lived in the shallow seas covering the area during the upper Oligocene to lower Miocene (23-26 million years ago). Over time, the calcium carbonate of the coral skeleton has been replaced with agate." This piece has druzy quartz areas.
