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I've had these for close to 20 years now and have shown some of them before but figured it was time to do a proper job of looking for info. (If I did before, I can't find the topic) I know nothing about these, either ID or location. They were part of a batch of fossils I received from an old rockhound couple in Nanaimo, which wasn't too carefully curated (a common problem with rockhounds/casual fossil collectors). Looking for info on the mystery items from that lot is what brought me to the Forum in the first place more than 10 years ago. I know Riley's Canyon, Utah has red corals, but lately I'm seeing them from other places like Arizona also, so I'm not at all confident. It's a reasonable assumption that they're from somewhere in the US Southwest as it was (and is) common for rockhounds in our area to travel down there in the Winter for better weather and abundant rockhounding options, but that doesn't narrow it down much. Any ideas? Not all of them are preserved in red color, as you'll see below, so I'm not sure they're from the same place, but they were kind of bundled together when I received them. For reference, I'll number each pic. 1: The lot 2: 3: 4. Sliced end: 5. Sliced pair: 6. Some seem to be water-worn to some degree - these ones more so: 7. Is this a sponge? 8. Chaetetid? 9a/b. These are the ones that have little/no red, so I'm not sure if they're from a different location or just a different preservation from the same site: The larger piece is sliced. 10. This one looks different again, so it could be from a third site....