Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Or this could be one of the biggest bivalves in the world ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 All the fossils around this in other rocks are stuffed with trilobites , large curved shells a few large bodied unidentifiable creatures , probably trilobites uncalcified , but for the most part all of the fossils are calcified from this deposit , very lucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I can't tell exactly from the photo but could it be a coral head or Bryozoa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Neither of those things , There is fossilised coral there , trilobites , spirifers , bivalves , brachiopods , Nautiloids , but the thing is I don't see any actual spirals its mostly curved stuff , I would have to do a small thread on it maybe another day . The things im talking about I have a picture of so youre lucky . ill post some pics here to give an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 This is Ordovician, presumably? That pretty much rules out plant, if so. Maybe something like a really big encrusting colony??? "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...
Herb Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Looks like Tetradium sp. "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...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Well wasn't a crinoid a plant ? I thought this could be a water plant at first glance , but after thinking about my fossils and the sizes these ones here are compared to my little ones , these are the full grown versions , so whatever this is it's probably max size. I don't know if anyone see's it but I put a Canadian dollar for size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Crinoids are animals, related to starfish and urchins. They are still living today. "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...
Auspex Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Looks like Tetradium sp. A tree?!? "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...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 It has a strange couple features above the dollar and at the bottom of the lateral lines .I can just say that this probably isn't coral unless you could show me a picture of some fauna that would resemble this and the size ... It truly reminds me of a shell after second looks. however its isn't very uniform... its time for some new pictures for you all to enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 herb thank you for that ! it isn't but I did look at those formations and I have a picture you will enjoy! its close by but not too close enough sorry ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Wow really! what the I never knew , so basically what were the first plants then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 there you go herb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Wow really! what the I never knew , so basically what were the first plants then ? Algae. Vascular plants came much later. "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...
Bullsnake Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 (edited) image.jpg there you go herb That is a cross section of a horn coral. EDIT: Sorry, I know I'm not Herb! Edited September 28, 2015 by Bullsnake Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Bull this ones for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 And let's not forget aus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GemstoneAndFossil Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Crinoidea find comparisons , the first is the largest by far I've seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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