alpharank Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 found this in the same area as the previous fosil. this looks like a knee cap, or plate bone of some kind. it has tiny pores or pits like a bone has. its about 10" - 11" across, and 2-3 inches thick in the center but tapers to a 1/4" thickness on the outer edge. is this a fossil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 You're right, the texture is "bone-like", but only superficially so. This may be something like a stromatoporoid. "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...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 That almost looks almost like a calcite formation .... or a weathered coral. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 The arrangement of the pores is way too regular for it to be purely mineralogical. It must have an underlying organic origin, whatever may have happened to it subsequently. There are some corals that grow in concentric forms like that but stromatoporoid (as suggested by Auspex) would surely be the front-runner? Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 The spacing of the holes reminds me of the corallites of Heliolites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) The spacing of the holes reminds me of the corallites of Heliolites. Just what I was thinking! - and there seem to be short septa showing in a lot of the holes. Edited December 12, 2014 by TqB Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I agree with heliolitid coral. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpharank Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 over the last day it seems they are every where. now that i know what i am looking for im finding these these stems all over this area. along with which could be a crown or heliolitid cora, as suggested from members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 looks like a coral 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...
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