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Found these weird spirals in this chunk of agatized rock. Devonian from Bradford beach in Milwaukee. Thanks!
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Landscaping rocks. Paleozoic.
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Found near the Whetstone Mountains, near Tucson, Arizona. I am very curious about the long, orange tube structures I found. Some folks told me they are just chert nodules. Others seem to think could be fossils. So, I took more photos to see if I can get more information on them. They were found right near some other fossils--fenestellid bryozoans, rhynchonellid brachiopods, gastropods. The area is littered with fossils. Several of these structures reveal a tube structure, which I think would be unusual in geology. A lot of these structures have a very s
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I don't remember where i found it but i guess it's from the only place i have ever find fossils (rudist fragments and echinoids). These come from Phthiotis, Greece. I know nothing about fossils so i need your help. This rock has a intense smell just like the other fossils i mentioned. However i don't know if this means that this is a fossil too or that it's just the way the rocks smell at the place where i found it. Could it be also a rudist? The only reason i'm not sure is that the rudist fragments i have found has this wavy shape at their top just like this rudist image As you
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I was doing an initial cleaning of this piece to categorize, label and store for future preparation. I do this by brushing the loose dirt off with a natural bristled paint brush and then a quick cleaning with my dust collector to pick up some of the finer particles. This time, while using the dust collector, a little surprise popped out. My first thought was tube worm, well preserved and free enough for the suction to pull it out. Thankfully it didn’t detach! I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. Has anyone else experienced this? And do you agree that it’s most likely a t
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Some of the fossils my son found amongst road base material. All are straight tube shapes in various sizes. I have sanded one as a cross section to show the pattern. Found in New South Wales, Australia.
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New to geology, so excuse my paltry terminology. Description: Tubes, many branching, between 1-3cm in diameter, in places as thick as a forest root system, material very sandstone-y, surrounding material clay. from my research these seem like burrow casts of... worms? tetrapods? do burrow casts form in such abundance?
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Here is a tubular structure that I am unaccustomed to finding in the Galena, Ordovician rocks of SE Minnesota. All thoughts are welcomed!!!
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Hi I’m wondering if these are Tube Corals? I have a lot and found them in rocks and sand around my resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, not to far from where I found my fossilized crab claw.
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Hi all! I’m hoping to solve a mystery. I find these objects pretty regularly along the San Mateo coast of Northern California. I’m not even sure they’re fossils, but the bluffs above the beach are part of the Purisima Formation with plenty of fossils from the late Miocene to early Pleistocene so I thought it would be worth a try. They look to be made of compacted sand, like a concrete, but laid down in layers, with a more robust top with lines that have some shell-like material. Most pieces I found have this triangular shape that look like they might have formed tubes. All the pieces I’v
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Hello, I recorded this as fossil tube worms. as I recall from them same ballast.
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Found these tubes joined together by sediment, sand and shell particles and forming a small mound within Pleistocene marl deposits near the city of Rhodes (capital city of the island of Rhodes in Greece). Both fragments are about 10 cm in length and the diameter of the hollow parts is an average of 1-1.5 cm. In the second picture, a cross section of sorts, the tubes are half-formed/joined around a central point of sorts, while in the last pic which is a cross section of a single tube there appears to be a smaller tube within going all the way to the other end. A final observation is that the
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Snow is just melting but in the mean time I've split open one of the larger rocks I took home and discovered a new little guy. Probably a twig. If not it could be a tube worm. You can see brachiopods around on this rock, I do know it was a shallow Eocene ocean 50 million years ago. So let me know what you all think. Maybe its just a stick or maybe something more interesting Thanks for you time - John
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UPDATE: August 20, 2013 - A new site for Wattieza - the world's oldest known tree Since posting this, the debate about "orthocone" versus "Devonian tree" has been settled. The Devonian tree experts have weighed in and confirm that these are Devonian tree shoots. They were growing in a swampy shallow marine environment similar to how modern mangroves grow. Since our original discovery - which represents an entirely and previously unknown site for Devonian Wattieza trees - my wife and I have collected more than a dozen separate fossils including some with surrounding substrate, from this sit
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Hello, Looks like I don't know much, as this should be an easy ID. Thanks
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I was hiking in Utah and found these. I think they are corals.
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Hello everyone, it's my first post here. Recently around the Gulf at Muscat, Oman, I found this tube-like structure bind strongly to a rock after some digging with my hands under the water on a remote small beach (no signs of previous visits there.) There's no sand on that shore, instead a coarse-sand-like nature of very small shell and rock fragments. The start of this tubular structure is very narrow, and its radius increases as it appears to curl in a life-like form of some organism. Unfortunately the top appears missing when I found it.
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Wondering if this shape is specific enough to identify who might have lived in this. Ideas? ~caroline
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Found several curved pieces of compressed sandy looking material with a tube-like polished round opening. Several have a black shark tooth-like enamel on only part of the tube and some pieces have the same glossy sheen on the outside. One had a weird pattern below the sheen (second pic). They are all one to two inch pieces. Are these some type of worm casing? Any ideas?
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Just ten minutes ago while walking along the river on campus, I came upon this rock with a tube-like piece. The rocks in this river are generally glacial till and more erosion-resistant limestone from the Devonian (Eifelian - Dundee Fm). The tube, about 1.5 inches long, is a bit too straight to be a worm burrow, lacks any of the segments of a crinoid, perhaps too thick to be the edge of a wide spirifer, and it appears next to a brach impression. I just want to be sure if it's geologic or not before I decide whether to keep it. I can try to put the microscope on it later to detect
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Is there any way to tell what kind of tube worm this fossil was? This is my first tube worm collection! AWESOME!
