Coral heads?

[Jan Lester]

Found several pieces of shale on the side of a mountain near Townsend, TN, that looked promising. Third pic is the “fossil” that made me pick up this rock and two others. I think I see bryozoans in there, and maybe brachiopods? But I can’t figure what I’m looking at. At first I thought echinoderm, but the geometry is wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Jan Lester]

Sorry, I didn’t get the metric measurements in the first pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by Jan Lester
Duplicate pics

[Rockwood]

There is kind of a gradient from recognizable fossil material to just limestone. Some of the bits can get sloshed around enough to be rounded into little balls, oolites. There are a few recognizable fossil bits here, but it's not far from limestone.

[JohnJ]

2 hours ago, Jan Lester said:

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Dampen the specimen and try to take photos of some of the interesting areas.