cdmultari Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 My 5 year old son is an aspiring paleontologist. He found this yesterday while swimming in shallow water in Sag Harbor, NY. He's convinced that he identified a new species. We love encouraging his expeditions and would love to have help identifying this. Thanks so much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Welcome to the forum!!! To me, it looks like your son has found a couple of solitary rugose (horn) corals. Congratulations to him! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdmultari Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Monica said: Welcome to the forum!!! To me, it looks like your son has found a couple of solitary rugose (horn) corals. Congratulations to him! Thank you so much. He's so excited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, cdmultari said: Thank you so much. He's so excited! You're very welcome! I remember when my daughter found her first fossil up here in the Toronto area - she was 5 at the time, too, and she was super-pumped to have found it! It was a rock with some crinoid pieces on it - she was really enamoured with the star shapes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I think these are actually barnacle attachment points, here’s some on a shell from my area 6 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 + 1 for barnacle attachment points. Probably not fossil. 2 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 @cdmultari - please see above posts - it looks as though your son didn't actually find a fossil Tell him to keep looking - some parts of NY state are very fossiliferous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I had a couple of these in the bag once when I came across another specimen on a piece of very modern wood. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Nice barnacle attachment scars. I agree with the others. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdmultari Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Thank you all. We told him what everyone said and he said "I guess I'll just have to get back outside.". Can't beat that! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 7 hours ago, cdmultari said: "I guess I'll just have to get back outside." Please keep us informed what he is finding! Thanks! Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Nice find. And although great age is of course part of the fascination in fossils, finding the mystery traces of an animal and then finding out what it was is always a great thing in my opinion. keep looking! J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 He should hang on to that specimen. 99% of the population of the planet has never seen a barnacle attachment point or ever heard of it, and this specimen is a very nice example. 2 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 20 hours ago, cdmultari said: guess I'll just have to get back outside. That’s the spirit!! Good on ya for fostering curiosity towards the natural world. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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