ricklordsae Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Hi, I am new to fossils and despite taking a few geology classes at Mizzou and searching through google I believe it is an Cnidaria but I am not sure, hopefully someone here is a bit more knowledgeable than I am haha. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Related to a jellyfish... This is a coral. Probably a horn coral. Do know the age? Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Classic horn coral "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...
ricklordsae Posted August 2, 2013 Author Share Posted August 2, 2013 I had a hunch it could of been a coral! Thanks guys, any idea what age this is probably? I don't have a clue! Are they a pretty common find? Found it in a creek bed near my house a few years ago outside of St Louis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 The Ordovician is well represented there, but this is offered only as a rough likelihood as other Paleozoic strata are present also. "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...
Indy Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 (edited) The St. Louis, Missouri area is unique ... at least I think so. With in a 40 minute drive (radius) from where I live ... I can be hunting exposures from the Cambrian to the Pennsylvanian. Edited August 2, 2013 by Indy Flash from the Past (Show Us Your Fossils)MAPS Fossil Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I thought it was a tiny fossilized jet engine "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 My guess would be Mississippian "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...
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