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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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I suppose they are ichnofossils, something like the houses constructed by decapod crustaceans.

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I wouldn't discount root casts. 

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2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

I wouldn't discount root casts. 

Yes. I can see them being mold fossils of something like mangrove roots. Root traces even. :)

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Thank you everyone!!, I’m not sure if it’s mangrove roots or some type of other plant or possibly something totally different. But i will clean them up and see if I can find anything that might help.

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Pictures (in situ) may help a lot. Each one of the proposed variants might be true in the existing contex. My feeling say burrows, but I could be wrong.

I have similar specimens from the Miocene of Romania where no plants were present.

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5 hours ago, abyssunder said:

Pictures (in situ) may help a lot. Each one of the proposed variants might be true in the existing contex. My feeling say burrows, but I could be wrong.

I have similar specimens from the Miocene of Romania where no plants were present.

Sadly I don’t have a photo of them in situ, but if it helps I found two in this hill area imbedded inside it. And to other around a half a km of the beach at my resort in an area that was covered with hard rocky sand and plants around it but the plants where to far away for it to be something to do with an modern plant, so with this I’m thinking it’s probably not modern what ever it may be. 

 

The hill where I found two of the specimens imbedded.

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5 hours ago, abyssunder said:

Pictures (in situ) may help a lot. Each one of the proposed variants might be true in the existing contex. My feeling say burrows, but I could be wrong.

I have similar specimens from the Miocene of Romania where no plants were present.

And also they could be burrows from crustaceans like you said above, because I found what most likely a fossilized crab claw near the two specimens.

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