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Fossil from SE Utah

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A friend found this fossil in a rock shop in Moab,  SE Utah.   The rock was split open when he was visiting the shop. Does anyone have any ideas what it is? Thanks

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Ramon Regular Member

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I don't think it's a fossil. If it is, it is a real weird looking one!!!:dinothumb:

 

"Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier

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The one with the radiating spicules is a Cambrian protomonaxonid sponge: Choia sp.

Attached for comparison: Choia carteri from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation.

 

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