nala Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 I have no ID for these fossils from Zalas Poland,Oxfordian,Upper Jurassic,what do you think about? Gasteropod? Coral or sponge? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 First on could be nummulates(is that spelled correctly?) Second doesn't have the detail for coral, though the shape looks rugose coral like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I would try puting the coral looking rock in vinager to see if you can etch out some more detail. Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 First on could be nummulates(is that spelled correctly?) Second doesn't have the detail for coral, though the shape looks rugose coral like. It's definitely not Nummilites, if you mean the Foraminifera, but rather either a Gastropod, like Gery suspects, or else a Serpula, perhaps planiformis. The second picture shows a sponge. The European Oxford is full of them. Cypellia perhaps, but hard to guess without more details. Identifying sponges is sometimes almost impossible unless you've got the needles to look at. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Nice finds, are you on Holiday Gery? -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 Thanks Scylla,Howard_L(i tried the vinegar and Roger is right, it's a Sponge), Yes, Dave,and just come back home from eastern Europe I also found on the field a very large plate,i think it could be Bryozoans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 ...I also found on the field a very large plate,i think it could be Bryozoans? I see sponge here too. "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...
nala Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 is it?It's more than 50 cms large and flat,you can see a 5 cms ammonite on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 (edited) is it?It's more than 50 cms large and flat,you can see a 5 cms ammonite on it Yes I noticed the ammo as well. I was about to agree with Bryozoa, but now I tend to agree with Auspex and suspect a large tabulate sponge there. Edited August 6, 2012 by Ludwigia Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 This site have so many sponges! and i didn't see a piece of coral,thanks again for your help Roger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Gery, looks like gastropod and sponge to me also. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 This site have so many sponges! and i didn't see a piece of coral,thanks again for your help Roger! You're welcome. Yes, in the southern German Jurassic also there were abundant sponge riffs in the lower Oxfordian, not to mention the Kimmeridgian. Corals were somewhat rare with the exception of theTithonian times, although they were developing well in other areas of the globe. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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