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Tangled Pennsylvanian Tube Worm


Kehbe

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Found this while scouting a new portion of an area I hunt frequently. Looks to be just above the Muncie Shale layer in the Argentine or Raytown limestone, Jackson county Missouri. Lots of twisted and tangled tubeworms is what it looks like. About the largest diameter tube is 3/8". Thanks for looking! :)

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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I'm sure I could break some individual tubes/pieces loose but to get any large pieces to represent the tangle would require tools I don't have. It does appear though to be like a shell of calcite formed over a large block with all these tubes on it. It is coating the vertical side of a huge block but it quite possibly could have been a crack between another block before they blasted it for the roadcut. Hard to tell. I may swing back by there and take a better look. I was in a bit of a hurry yesterday when I found it. I'll let you know!

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

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I'm shooting from the hip... but those look like the calcite tubes I see under rock overhangs where calcium-rich water has dripped or covered roots and hardened. A somewhat more organic version of cave straws. Just a SWAG.

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I agree. I found lots of these in the karst regions of Romania. They are beautiful. Here are some leaves beside branches:

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