Please Help Identify

[Brookelynnoddart]

Hello, I am an active crazy lace agate & fossil hunter who has many specimens that I hope can be identified. Please help identify my precious findings so I can rest assure at what they really are. 

Found in Coldwater, MS in a Gully I visit often. 

Edited September 13, 2021 by Brookelynnoddart
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[Crusty_Crab]

Beautiful corals. I see what might be a rugose coral (the solitary one) and some hexagonal shapes that bring to mind Hexagonaria sp. I'm sure more knowledgeable people will chime in, but it would be helpful if you can provide a general location where they were found.

[Brookelynnoddart]

I Found all of these in a gully near my home in Coldwater, MS.

The gully only has one spot (because I have walked both ways 2 miles in each direction) where I only find fossils. 

[Fossildude19]

Rugose and tabulate corals.

Hard to state age, but these look Paleozoic to me.

[Tetradium]

26 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Rugose and tabulate corals.

Hard to state age, but these look Paleozoic to me.

I'm counting 6 very distinct coral species so far already ha! One rock had a very well mixture of two coral species which is unusual since they won't tolerate the presence of a different coral species. 

[Fossildude19]

41 minutes ago, Tetradium said:

I'm counting 6 very distinct coral species so far already ha! One rock had a very well mixture of two coral species which is unusual since they won't tolerate the presence of a different coral species. 

 

Where do you see two corals mixed, and what is the source of your information about corals not tolerating the presence of different species?

[Tetradium]

5 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

 

Where do you see two corals mixed, and what is the source of your information about corals not tolerating the presence of different species?

There's plenty of information online about corals waging wars on each other. The fringe ones will stings a neighbor colony and the ones that wins end up advancing their colony over the skeletons of the defeated corals. Competition for surface spaces on a reef. One of the picture are unusual into having a large polyp coral mixed in with a chain coral type. I counted down the pictures and its #11. 

[Oxytropidoceras]

For links to PDF files of papers that identify the above Mississippi fossils, see the last post in the Fossil Forum thread "red plant fossil rarer than white fossil ?????".

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

 

 

 

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[Al Dente]

7 hours ago, Tetradium said:

There's plenty of information online about corals waging wars on each other. The fringe ones will stings a neighbor colony and the ones that wins end up advancing their colony over the skeletons of the defeated corals. Competition for surface spaces on a reef. One of the picture are unusual into having a large polyp coral mixed in with a chain coral type. I counted down the pictures and its #11. 

It looks like the tabulate coral Heliolites.

 

 

[Tetradium]

On 9/14/2021 at 5:07 AM, Al Dente said:

It looks like the tabulate coral Heliolites.

Hmmm online images look a bit different but then again this fossil is eroded to different heights which gives different illusions. 

 

Heliolites are recognized by their unique random shape. Interesting.