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I found this and a larger piece between Mt Blanco and Dougherty Tx. It is super lightweight. It doesn't float but does take its time sinking. While cleaning I noticed weird shell like markings inside where a piece was broken out (prior to my finding it). I'm not sure what to make of it but it has the characteristics of a sponge. How far off base am I?
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Hello, my name is Andres. I found this in "La Pedrera beach" in Uruguay. At first I had no clue of what it was. I'm prone to think it is a sponge fossil, but would want help in this matter. I found it vaguely buried in the sand close to the shore. The sand of that beach is grainy and loaded with lots of shells of many mollusc species. If it is indeed a sponge fossil, what species it would be? Thanks in advance!
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Reference : http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00644838/document. An article from Lucette Lagneau Hérenger in "Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France", Tome XLI.
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Most of the snow has melted away in the lowlands, at least for the time being, so I took the opportunity a few days ago to drop into the ditch in the Kimmeridgian in the Danube Valley for a couple of hours. It was drizzly weather, but that didn't bother me, being happy to just get out and dig a bit. Found a few nice ammonites which I've still got to prep, but I spent an hour or so abrading this sponge today. Like I've said before, I usually leave most of the sponges where they are, but this one was complete and also quite large at 20cm. length. If I abraded the entire insides, I could fill it with tobacco and have a smoke I'm not sure, but I think it could be a Cylindrophyma sp.
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This was found on a relative's farm in central Tennessee about 20 years ago. It looks like a sponge, and a museum I took it to a long time ago said it was, but I wanted to know what you guys thought. Other fossils found on the same farm include shells, coral, and tool fragments made from antlers. Some of the holes in the fossil go all the way through. Whatever it turns out to be, it's pretty cool-looking.
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I need to identify this sponge. Waccamaw fm., Pliocene from Brunswick County, North Carolina Thats all I have to go on. If you know this species/genus or know someone who might I would appreciate it. Regards, Jim Wyatt Houston, Texas
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Hi everybody, i found some items in the department of Loir et Cher, region Touraine, at about 200 km at the south of Paris, France. The place where i found it covers from the Turonian to the Senonian (-91 to -83 my). Most of the sponges you find there are siphoniae or chenendoporae, but you can also find jereae, phymatellae or pachysalaxe. I think this one might be a chenendopora. It is in black silex and is about 7 cm wide and 6 hight.
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The following set of photographs is of a roughly 5-inch x 5-inch x 7-inch limestone fossil. I found it in Eastern Anatolia along the Turkish-Iranian border near the village of Uzengili. It exhibits striations from what I call "top" to "bottom", although there are some (only 2 or 3) horizontal striations that seem to have a replacement material akin to quartz, in that it appears clear (but very thin). At first I thought this was a coral, but I am beginning to wonder if it is a Stromatoporoid Sponge... however, it could be something entirely different, and that I why I am presenting photos of it in this forum to see if anyone recognizes this morphology. The following photographs show the fossil in rotations of 90 degrees (which I have labelled North, East, South, and West for reference). I also have a "top" and a "bottom" view, although what I label as the "top" may actually be the "bottom" if it turns out to be a sponge and not a coral. Of note are some tiny features along the "bottom". These features may be part of the fossil, ore perhaps they are growths of some other material that has leached out of the soil and onto the fossil. These features seems quite well integrated with the rest of the limestone. What is curious is the fact that the "bottom" looks like it is a fracture, in that it is smooth with few features other than some parallel striations. To have these intricate features survive on a fracture plane seems odd to me and that I why I am suggesting that they may be leached material. I am an engineer and not a geologist or paleontologist, so some expert identification help would be appreciated.
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I am studying the stratigraphy of the Permian Word Formation in the Glass Mountains of West Texas. Though there are obvious ammonite, brachiopod, and fusulinid fossils in the strata, I keep coming across these geometric patterns. Could someone help me identify the origin of these patterns? Are they fossils or some bizarre diagenetic process? There has been ample alteration of these limestones by silica(chert). vertical slice Horizon of sponges? above 'sand stringers' or silicification bands Plan view
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Well preserved sponges are rare in Arizona except for Actinocoelia maeandrina in the Permian (Leonardian) age Kaibab Limestone. I found well preserved ramose sponges with hollow interiors. Using HCl acid, my silicified sponge was dissolved out of the Leonardian Fort Apache Member of the Schnebly (formerly Supai) Formation, which is mostly limestone in the area. The member contains a rich molluscan fauna dominated by pelecypods and gastropods. Echinoid pieces are common. Coral, bryozoan and nautiloids are rare; sponges are previously unreported. My sponge may be a new species or may be an extension of range of a known species. Collected in August 2013. For more information on the fossils of the Fort Apache Member see: Winters, S.S., 1963, Supai Formation (Permian) of eastern Arizona: Geological Society of America Memoir, 89, 99 p.
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Hey all, this is another find from a creek in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The matrix is some more of that possible quartzite that produced a few trilobite fragments. I'm still trying to find a source so I can hopefully put a name to the formation. I'm wondering if it might be a sponge? It has a very curved shape to it, but I had a hard time getting photos that didn't make it look flat. It's about two inches long. Thanks for looking
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Hi I found these on our farm in Central Missouri [Osage County].. I've looked in Missouri fossil references and on line - bt haven't found something similar... Can anyone tell me what they are?. Thank you for looking!
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This specimen was part of a larger crumbling piece with a few more of the same on it. Tried to collect and reassemble but have not gotten very far.. Length is of visible portion of sponge in middle of piece. Date approximate. Rigby's description was of a similar item from same-aged sediments of California. Thanks to 'piranha' Scott for the ID.
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Cracov is full of Jurassic sponges in the walls. Can you tell more about this one? Could it be a sphinctozoan?
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I have received a new batch of fossils from the same locality as my last post. Here's the geologic info: Age: Upper Miocene-Tortonian Lithology: Sandstone(probably) General area: Pannonian basin Now, onto the fossils: 1) Sponge? 2) Unknown(possibly bivalve?) 3) Bivalve(1) 4) Bivalve(2) All help is appreciated. If you need any more info, just ask.
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Teeth, some kind of sponge(?), and a few other things that need IDs
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Hello! My name is Brittany and I am new to both this forum and fossil collecting and identifying. Instead of making multiple posts I decided to post some of my "better" (ha) findings all in one spot. I've been getting pictures and my findings ready for this for hours and now I'm finally ready to post these babies and hopefully get some info! All of these findings are out of central Ohio. 1) Some sort of jaw bone with 4 small molars and another long tusk-like tooth running underneath. The whole piece is pretty small, only about 1 1/2-1 3/4 in. long. The protruding tusk seems to be broken, so it's hard to say how long the animal's actual tusk was. Looking to find out what kind of animal this may have belonged to. 2) Because of two small closely spaces holes, I believe that this one may have been made into jewelry by Native Americans. It looks like bone, but is completely hollow. No idea what to say about this one except that it is very interesting.. 3) This one is the one I think could have been some kind of sea sponge? Based only on the porous appearance. Not really sure what to say about this one. Here are some other items I've found that I'd like to know more about, but are not as interesting. 4) 5) This one could just be a rock, not sure.. 6) Okay, okay, just one more..... 7) Whew! Thanks for hanging in there! If anyone knows anything about any of these I'd love to know more about them! Or if you'd like to see bigger pictures of something let me know and I will resize and post.
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I found this on Topsail Beach NC. I do not know very much about invertebrate fossils at all. Any thoughts? Much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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Going through boxes of specimens collected by my dad and grandparents, I stumbled across some interesting encrustations. I'm guessing that they are sponges, but I'm not sure. They were collected in central Texas, probably in Brown County. They're beautiful, whatever they are. The first picture is a brachiopod with the sponge on the opposite side. The second is a gastropod, Glabrocinculum grayvillense, almost completely shrouded by the sponge. The third is a Straparollus sp. gastropod, again growing a nice little sponge on the backside.
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Hi all, I am back with a few more questions. I've found some interesting fossils on the bedding planes of my Devonian cores and I need some help to have an idea of what they are or what they might be. There are overall 9 images as you will see in my replies. I would appreciate if you can help me to figure these out. Cheers Korhan
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I had heard a lot about St Leon and since it was only two hours from my home I decided to spend Monday there. I arrived just before noon and was the only person in sight. I could tell it had been recently visited and expected there to be others since it was a holiday but I remained the only hunter all day. I had read in other reports that visitors are quite astonished at the magnitude of the cut and volume of loose material. Yes, it is a bit overwhelming. It reminded me of old South Carolina oyster bars that had mounds of shells under the houses from patrons throwing the shells through the holes in the floor. In another report it was said that a hunter needn't venture too far up the hillside due to the loose material that had fallen from above however, I noticed that specimens in the lower material seemed a bit worn and fractured. So I made my way up to the level that seemed promising for less weathered specimens and was not disappointed. What surprised me though is how high I went. I'm guessing in that area there's not much distance between the topsoil and fossil bearing stone. Still, most of my finds were loose or easily released with my rock hammer or hammer and chisel. I had originally come for just one thing, trilobites, but couldn't resist picking up some of the common fossils of the area. I'm by no means an expert at correctly naming my finds so here goes; 1,2 & 3) horn corals (Grewingkia canadensis) 4) Lepidocyclus capax 5) Part of a Flexi' (Yay! My first.......piece) 6) gastropod molds 7) haven't figured out the genus 8) cephalopod segments?? 9) some kind of encrusting coral 10) bryozoa?? Against the back drop of jagged stone and brachiopods the spherical shape really stood out. Funny thing is that it was the only one I saw all day I spent about 2 1/2 hours on the east side of the road and about half an hour on the west. After 3 hours everything started looking the same and figured I wasn't doing myself any good and packed it in. On my way out I noticed a sign by the roadside, something about the area being state property and no digging allowed. I mention this because in another thread there was some discussion about a law passed in Indiana preventing fossil collecting from road cuts. I'm thinking that if collecting wasn't allowed it would be so stated so I take it as you can but just don't dig and at St Leon you wouldn't have to.
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During the Santonian, sponge fields existed in our Saratov Region of the Russian Federation. They were like the Great Barrier Reef but with sponges instead of corals. I tried to reconstruct a small part of such a sponge field using sponges from my collection.
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Name: Sestrocladia sp. Class: Hexactinellida Age: K2st Location: Saratov, Russian Federation A unique specimen, that once was damaged by storm, but continued living. It changed the dimension of growth and grew not additional roots (as usual) but additional stem!
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From the album: Sponges (Hexactinellida)
Name: Troegerella quinqufurcata Class: Hexactinellida Age: K2st Location: Saratov, Russian Federation© Evgeny Kotelevsky
