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This is the only thing so far I've found with fossils that I have no idea what it is. I found this piece just out side of the Falls of Ohio no collect zone at a road cut. I also got a bunch of horn coral at this spot.

So here it is...

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That's a Hemichaiblurganah weewee. Very rare.

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That's a Hemichaiblurganah weewee. Very rare.

No that's one of Cris' finds... only found in FL. :D:P

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It looks a bit (hard to tell from the photo, tho) like the anthozoans we can find in some of the PA Devonian sites.. I would guess, pending better photos, a colonial coral such as a Pleurodictyum? I have found colonial corals alongside horn corals before. But I'm not as good at ID'ing from photos as the rest of the folks here...I'm just trying to be brave and take a guess :P I haven't checked a map...what "age" were you in? I have attached a photo of a Pleurodictyum (not sure I spelled that right)...is it similar at all to this?

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It is it similar at all to this?

The texture of Nicholas' mystery stone is a lot more irregular than that. I'm not even sure it's organic...

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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The texture of Nicholas' mystery stone is a lot more irregular than that. I'm not even sure it's organic...

LOL, well Lord knows I have plenty of those too...my son's collection of "really cool rocks that look like fossils but are not" is taking over my shed...maybe I will start a rock garden. Then someday a thousand years from now someone can dig them up and try to figure out what they are. :D

-Mary Ann

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It is labeled currently as "interesting rock", I don't really think it is a fossil. On the off chance it is I thought I would ID.

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No that's one of Cris' finds... only found in FL. :D:P

bwahahaha good times good times! :D

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It looks like a section of the wall of a horn coral. Something like Heliophyllum, or that really large one(sorry, can't recall the name).

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