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I wonder if this rock from very late Ordovicium in the Oslo field, Norway, shows an alge or a sponge? The rock was bigger originally with 4 bumps of equal size, 3-4 cm away from each other, but 3 of them had very unclear surface pattern, so I chopped away that part, showing here the rest. Another fossile from the same formation, 500 meters away (the structure about 3 cm in diameter):
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Can anyone tell me what this species of coral is? It's from the Thornloe Formation in Northern Ontario, and is of early Silurian age.
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take a look at this favosites fossil I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again Take a look at this favosites coral fossil I found in the creek today. Here is a photo of the fossil: -
look at this beautiful coral fossil from the creek today
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. Guess what I found today in the creek? I found this huge coral fossil. I just finished polishing the coral today . Here are 2 photos: -
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Hello everyone. I have come across these in my collection and could someone gives me info at all. Possibly just the common name and maybe a rough time period.
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek I found a rock with 1 nice horn coral in it and another coral on the right that I am not sure what it is ? Here is a photo :
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Crystalline... Sponge? (Little Current, Manitoulin Island, Ontario)
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Found along the shore of the North Channel at Little Current, Ontario. Large, bumpy nodule which seems to be completely formed of (calcite?) crystals all the way through (I'm surprised by the multiple colours, but maybe that's normal?). I'm assuming it's a sponge, though wondering if someone could give a more specific ID or perhaps explain the crystallization seen here. -
Found along the shores of the North Channel at Little Current, Manitoulin Island. Slightly domed. Knobby outside, crystalline (calcite?) inside.
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980 million year old soft sponges may have been found in a reef associated with microbiolites in Canada, pushing back sponge fossils 300 million years. The lack of a fully mineralized skeleton in the earliest sponges may make fossilization and recognition difficult. Turner, E.C. Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03773-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03773-z
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Check out this coral/sponge I broke out of a rock today with a hand sledge hammer today in the creek
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek, I found this big rock with a great looking fossil sponge/coral in it. I some how got lucky when I hit it with my hand sledge hammer , when the fossil coral/sponge came out complete from the rock. Here are 2 photos: -
cool favosites coral I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Take a look at this great looking Favosites coral I found in the creek today Here is a photo: -
checkout this horn coral I found in the creek today
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Hi everyone this Matt again. After getting soaked and wet, I found this neat horn coral fossil . Here is a photo: -
I found this strange stone in Hadeland in Norway. On it I found patterns of 2 nautiloids and some STRANGE structures. Could it be a sponge? The age is middle Katian, Upper Ordovician. Enlarged nautiloid part, not an ortoconic? The "arm"-structures are on all sides of the stones. Finally, the last side with a rather unusual form of a nautiloid, not so well preserved. Can it be called orthoconic when it expands its diameter so rapidly?
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I was cleaning up my "fossil prep room" and found this specimen I meant to ask about months ago. It was found at the base of a Kentucky road cut that had Kope Formation. It is paper thin and actually popped off of the matrix. I then glued it back on. It seemed to look better associated with the trilobit. I am hoping to ID this as specific as possible since it is quite different from what I have found before. THANKS!!!! Mike
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Hi everyone I have just started looking for fossils and found one yesterday at Lulworth Cove that I think is really interesting. My Mum told me that the holes in this rock are may be from a sponge but we don't know what type. We also noticed a very interesting shell shape on the side of the rock. Does anyone have an idea what this might be? There are very thin cracks in the rock too and we were wondering if there might be something else inside! Thanks so much for any information you might be able to share. If more photos would be helpful let me know and I can upload more. T.
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check out this favosites fossil I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek I just found a very nice Favosites fossil. Here is a photo: -
From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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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....
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Look at this coral fossil that is made of crystals that I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Take a look at this coral fossil that is made of crystals that I found in the creek today. here are some photos :