Kellett Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Hello all, My daughter found this today on a local beach, we were wondering if anybody could shed some light on what it might be please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Where might that local beach be generally located? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 A rather large piece of horn coral. Nice find. 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Welcome. It's a fossilized coral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 It looks like a large piece of coral. 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Wow! 3 votes for coral at the same time Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellett Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Thanks guys, although my daughter was sure we had discovered a dinosaur bone! Bless hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellett Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Any idea what date this is from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellett Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 The beach is Pembrokeshire South West Wales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, Kellett said: Any idea what date this is from? We would need a more specific location of the find, but that type of coral went extinct at the end of the permian.(Before the dinos.) Tony PS You beat Me! 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...
Vieira Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 You can know the date of your fossil if you search for a geologic map and see the corresponding geography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellett Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 wow that pretty cool! Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 The coral is Siphonophyllia, probably S. cylindrica, from the Lower Carboniferous. It's a distinctive large species from the fairly early Carboniferous, Chadian Stage. That's roughly 345-350 million years. Lovely find, I'd have taken that home! 4 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavialboy Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 hi and welcome to the fossil forum and that's a nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 That is a really nice and large solitary rugose coral, according to the dimensions and the visible fossula. I think Tarquin is right with the ID. In lack of available reference it's better to ask: Is that the combined name of Caninia cylindrica Scouler and Siphonophyllia garwoodi Ramsbottom & Mitchell ? " 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...
TqB Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 11 hours ago, abyssunder said: That is a really nice and large solitary rugose coral, according to the dimensions and the visible fossula. I think Tarquin is right with the ID. In lack of available reference it's better to ask: Is that the combined name of Caninia cylindrica Scouler and Siphonophyllia garwoodi Ramsbottom & Mitchell ? The original form is actually Siphonophyllia cylindrica Scouler MS in McCoy, 1844, p.187, A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland. It differs from Caninia, in which it was often subsequently included, in the possession of a lonsdaleoid dissepimentarium. Caninia's is (mostly) normal and narrow. Siphonophyllia was reinstated by Dorothy Hill in the Treatise (!956, 1981) and is in current usage for this species. Another useful reference: http://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/13/1/article_pp52-63 Here's the original McCoy description: 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Thank you, Tarquin, for the explanations and references. " 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...
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