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Coral? Bryozoan?


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Found these Midwest, likely Iowa, from either Carboniferous or Devonian rocks. Any help in IDing them would be much appreciated. Thanks! 

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It would be good to know how many pieces are represented by the photos as it is a bit hard to tell but I see three distinct ones, the first is some kind of Rugose coral, then a bryozoan and finally, what I think is a favosites sp. Coral.

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6 minutes ago, Misha said:

It would be good to know how many pieces are represented by the photos as it is a bit hard to tell but I see three distinct ones, the first is some kind of Rugose coral, then a bryozoan and finally, what I think is a favosites sp. Coral.

The first photo is one specimen, two and three are another, the fourth is another, the fifth another, and six-nine are one 

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1 horn coral 

2-3 bryozoan or favosite impression

4 maybe bryozoan?

5-9 all look like favosites to me

Not sure though

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The colonial corals are not favositids, I don't think. 

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3 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

The colonial corals are not favositids, I don't think. 

Some other tabulate corals?

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1 hour ago, Misha said:

Some other tabulate corals?

Not sure. 

The first ones corallites are the wrong shape and/ or too widely spaced to be Favosites, the last one has some sort of septa but maybe reduced enough to be some sort of favositid but not Favosites. :headscratch:

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1 has to be an odly sectioned rugose horn coral 

2-4 heliolitid coral (tabulate)

5-6 tabulate coral

7-8 favositids ?

9 ? could go tabulate or rugose :zzzzscratchchin:

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