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Help please - coral?


altnacraig

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Just found these pebbles on the beach on the Isle of Man and am wondering whether they are a form of coral. I know very little about fossils so please forgive my ignorance! The photos shows them alongside a pound coin. Thanks very much.

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The first and third are corals - 1st is a solitary rugose ("horn coral"), 3rd is Siphonodendron junceum which is a colonial, branching rugose.

The second is mostly crinoid stems.

All are from the Carboniferous period.

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Tarquin

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+1 -- TqB nailed it.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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