Carl Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 In a wall on 25th Street west of Park Avenue in Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) I must not be one of those people that will get it fast...LOL.....but it does look like one of those big broad leaf thingies that are attached to the bottom of the shallow seas Edited March 30, 2015 by njfossilhunter TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebite6769 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 I thought it looked like a worn fish spine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Nope and nope! Keep trying! First clue: marine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Archimedes? Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tethys Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 I too vote for a archimedes type bryozoan. What a perfect accidental cross section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebite6769 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Archimedes cross section. Now that I look closer, I agree with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Looks like an Archimedes " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janislav Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Yep, Archimedes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 It looks like it would make an interesting rubbing "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...
Diceros Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 To Archimedes, I'd like to add m. Mississippian Salem Lmst., near Burlington, Indiana - a major supplier of fossiliferous facing-stone in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Bravo! This is actually the nicest Archimedes I think I've ever seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 glad I didn't jump in right away, I thought it looked like a graptolite....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) Archimedes it is. Edited March 30, 2015 by Herb "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...
Herb Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 really nice piece of wall. "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...
RichW9090 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Carl, has anyone ever done a guide to the geology and paleontology as revealed in the building stone in Manhattan? I've seen such a guide for other cities, but never NYC. In addition to the things you'd normally think of, there is, of course, the famous Coelacanth of NYC. Edited March 31, 2015 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Not really a guide. I would love that. But Sid Horenstein occasionally does fossil walks on 5th Ave. Saks Fifth Avenue has some incredible corals! I have been working on a guide to the fossils in the building stones of the AMNH off and on. Soooooo many fossils. And one of the bronze bas reliefs in the AMNH subway station actually aided science. There's a bronze of our Coelophysis mount down there: the one long-supposed to represent cannibalism. When Sterling Nesbitt was a student here, and waiting for the train, he was feeling the gut-content bones and realized, BY ONLY FEELING THE LOW RES BRONZE, that the bone was not a dinosaur. He got permission to sample the exhibit and proved the gut contents were non-dinosaurian, thus removing the available cannibalism evidence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I hadn't heard that before, Carl - great story! The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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