Andy1899 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi all, I found this fossil on the shore today, it looks to me like it could be a big piece of coral or something? Not too sure. It's about the size of my palm and seems to be tubes filled with shiny bits of quartz. Any help would be great thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ludwigia Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Welcome to the forum. Yes, you have a piece of coral there. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) You have right,Andy,is a big piece of coral. And is nice! Edited April 12, 2015 by abyssunder " 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...
Herb Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Nice coral! "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...
ZiggieCie Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Welcome to the Fossil Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Welcome to the forum.. 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...
Andy1899 Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Thanks everyone, glad to hop on board :-) I appreciate all of the friendly replies. I know lots of other forums that immediately hassle you. How would I go about determining species, and would anybody be interested in this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Welcome to the forum. Can you post a photo showing the openings to the corallites (="tubes") straight on, and also give an idea as to their diameter? If not a direct measurement, then perhaps a coin for scale? Also, where on Lake Erie did you find this? There are a lot of corals in places, such as at Rock Point Provincial Park. The locality will give some clue as to the age and possible rock layer of origin, though there are a lot of glacial deposits that could contain fossils from any of the rock formations to the north. At any rate, the coral is probably of Devonian age but there is also some Silurian exposed around and to the north of Hamilton. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diceros Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Aren't the short, ladder-rung-like walls, perpendicular to the long, narrow corallites, tabulae? That would make this a colonial tabulate coral, something like Favosites. I seem to vaguely recall that they also have holes in the walls, like those seen at the bottom of the second photo. As FossilDAWG writes, it's likely early Paleozoic, probably Silurian or Devonian. What would help with the identification would be a photo of a cut across the wide end, to show the shape of the tops of the corallites perpendicular to the sides shown in the two photos. See if you can find someone with a rock saw with a diamond-embedded blade. It'll be hard with all that quartz in it (it's probably silicified limestone, which is why it could take all that beach abuse), but it should polish-up nicely. If you can get it cut, take a third photo, and post it again, asking for help from a Paleozoic coral specialist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1899 Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 Hello All After a long time I am back. I am hoping to make a few more posts as we have found signifigantly more fossils over the years. One of which is very impressive and all Corals. Here is one I found yesterday. The location was Colchester, Ontario on the beach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ynot Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 A worn horn coral. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1899 Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 Thanks for the tips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1899 Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 Update*** Going to get this waterjet cut open to see whats inside Ill post the updated pic over the weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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