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Found a fossil in Lithuania and cannot identify it.


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Two years ago I found a field in Lithuania, where I managed to find a lot of small fossils; mostly corales and small invertebrates. But I came across one fossil, which was one of the best ones I ever found, but cannot identify what it is. I am searching fossils for fun and have no schooling or knowledge about them (so it might be a very common fossil.)

 I hope, someone can help! 

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Welcome to the Forum.  :)

 

This looks like a rugose coral, to me.

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Thank you, I'm excited to be here :rolleyes:

 

 At first I thought it was a rugose but I saw, that my fossil seemed to have one side where it had only one flat surface, while the other side seemed to have more arms (four arms/flat surfaces with patterns.). As if it were standing.The last photo shows that what I currently call the bottom, the others show the 'upper side' and it's stamp pattern  

 I tried to Google rugose coral too but seem not to find any images, which have the shape as in my photos... . 

 I'm sure it is a coral (or at least I think it is) and tried to search for the horn coral formations too. But since my brother had found one such horn coral, I could put them together and again they did not look similar... :zzzzscratchchin:

 

(I sent a new photo, where the four branches can be seen more clearly)

 

 

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The "branches" could be other polyps growing on the first one.

 

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Oh, I didn't know, that was possible! 

 Thank you for your help! I can now name it. :rolleyes:

Do you maybe have any idea, how old this fossil might be? 

 I'm working on marking all my fossils

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Lovely rugose. 
 

here’s a geologic map I’ve marked primary age groups, hopefully it helps!

 

Clarification: I’m assuming you found it in the yellow grey region, because rugose went extinct in the Permian extinction event. You can read more about them here:

https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/cnidaria/anthozoa/rugosa/

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Thank you very much for this great map! I really did find it in the Late Devon region :rolleyes: According to the linked website I assume, the first photo I'm sending will be Acinophyllum stramineum? 

 

 There is another fossil, which I never quite understood, what it might be. (The other photos). It looked young to me, almost, like a mushroom we see these days on the trees. But yet again, I have no idea. Maybe any of you could help me? :rolleyes: I tried to clean it, but the edges were very sensitive and crumbly, so it might seem a little dusty.

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This is a map showing the prequaternary deeper ground. There could be local devonian glacial erratics, but if I remember right, devonian strata of this area look different. I would suggest you have found glacial erratics from the Silurian period, widespread there and originating from the baltic glint reaching from Sweden (e.g. Isle of Gotland) up to Estonian shores...

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Never thought it to be something like this! I believe, there might be than more of such erratics which I found and hadn't previously understood.

 Thank you all for your help! :rolleyes:

 

 Since I'm new to the forum, what should I do with this topic? Do I have to delete it? :headscratch:

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Oh no ! We don’t delete or empty a topic ! Everyone can learn from all posts.

 

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I see :rolleyes:

 

 Today I further reviewed my fossils and found a beautiful stone with three star shaped remnants, what I believe to be crinoids, since I found plenty of those typical rings!

 Of course, I would be very happy,  somebody might tell me, what it actually is. :headscratch:

 I too found another, very small fossil, which looks somewhat funny and similar, but cannot remember its name. (Photo in the middle)

 At last I too wanted to ask, wether the last photos depict a horn coral or maybe some other kind of rugosa?

 

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