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I found this in a load of rocks from a Farmer's field in Michigan. I love it and am dying to know what it is. VZM.IMG_20161019_175711.jpg

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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Welcome to the Forum. :)

Looks like a Devonian (??) aged Favositid coral to me.   ( EDIT: Could be of Mississippian age. )

I also see a crinoid stem imprint (or possibly an orthocone cephalopod) on Picture 2, along with a crinoid columnal imprint. 

 

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Neat find. 
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Tim said already ! Yes, it looks like a favositid tabulate coral. Nice find!
I'm not sure about the crinoid column imprint, but the other one is a crinoid columnal for sure.

Edit : Similar rectangular shaped columnals are exemplified in this topic :

 

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