bkstyl Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I am new to the forum and new to fossil collecting. I found several possible fossil's on a family trip at Lewes Beach in Lewes, DE. I've searched the net and various forums for over a week and have not been able to ID them. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. First set, 3 images showing different views of a rock/possible fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 Second Set of 3 images... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 4 additional images of possible fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 Last image.... Again, thanks for any help you can provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The second group is a pebble that has a section of some kind of rugose coral, and a small piece of bryozoan. In the third group, the first one is also a coral. As is the second one, but it is a scleractinian(all the others are Paleozoic; this one is probably Cenozoic). The third one is an ossicle from a crinoid. Not a lot there on the last one, but it too, is probably a coral. It is a longitudinal section, whereas the other corals are cross sections. The first group, I don't know, but I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to vertebrate stuff. To me it looks like a chert nodule, but it could be a tooth. I'm sure someone here will know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The first one looks like it might be a crab or lobster. Very similar to the water-rounded crab nodules I used to find at Westmorland State Park (Miocene). "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 ^Could be, once I'm out of the Paleozoic, I'm lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Because of the lack of symmetry, the first one looks like a chert nodule as earlier suggested. Others have already been IDed as corals. Last one sort of looks like a brachiopod impression, but could be coral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Last one sort of looks like a brachiopod impression, but could be coral. That was my first impression, but looking on the right side, posteriorly, it looks like the thing has depth(septa where it has weathered). That is why I was thinking coral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovicious Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 The middle picture in the third set (my favorite) looks like some of the scleractinians in these pictures--especially the second bunch: http://www.sbg.ac.at/ipk/avstudio/pierofun...al/faviidae.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I'm not saying that's not just a piece of chert, but it's one of the most interesting pieces of chert I've seen, and I bet it drinks Dos Equis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I'm not sure I'd want that piece of chert in my house. I mean, what if it's a lithic cocoon, and something morphs out of it while you're sleeping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I'm not sure I'd want that piece of chert in my house. I mean, what if it's a lithic cocoon, and something morphs out of it while you're sleeping... Tracer, you're tired. Get some sleep. "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 I'm not sure I'd want that piece of chert in my house. I mean, what if it's a lithic cocoon, and something morphs out of it while you're sleeping... Tracer, Being new to fossils, I was thinking the same thing until I was sure what it was..... Thanks Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 Thank you to everyone for your help. I going to do some research and try to find out what all of those things are.... Any recommended reading/websites? Thanks, Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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