MartianColony Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) Is this a brachiopod? I found it here in Albuquerque, my neighborhood has a lot of river rock spread around. The fossil is about 0.5 - 0.75 inches , or 12 - 18 millimeters. Thank you to all who leave a comment. Edited January 31, 2017 by MartianColony Duplicate photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Can we get a photo from the broken edge of the item? 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Looks like a horn coral calyx fragment with the visible septa, to me. 1 " 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...
MartianColony Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said: Can we get a photo from the broken edge of the item? I'm trying but this 3.95MB limit is giving me trouble . Anyway around that? If not I'll just try to take a smaller picture later and upload it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 hour ago, MartianColony said: I'm trying but this 3.95MB limit is giving me trouble . Anyway around that? If not I'll just try to take a smaller picture later and upload it. Obviously you are cropping the original image (which is good). However the cropped uploaded image is actually 5312 Wide by 2988 High...Which is HUGE. The forum software is resizing to fit on the screen...So what we see in the post is not the Huge image you inserted in the post. Try resizing the image before uploading. Maybe 1000 Wide. This should solve the problem of MB forum limit. Edit I saved and resized your original 1.23 MB image and resized it to 1000 Wide and saved it as a JPG. The 1000 wide image size is now 120 KB...Huge saving of file size. 2 Flash from the Past (Show Us Your Fossils)MAPS Fossil Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Indy??? Holey kamolee!! Welcome back!! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 If You are trying to add more pictures to the original post it is already at its limit. You can add more pictures to reply posts because the limit is a per post limit. Tony 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...
MartianColony Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 17 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Can we get a photo from the broken edge of the item? Here's another photo of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 18 hours ago, abyssunder said: Looks like a horn coral calyx fragment with the visible septa, to me. I agree Take a look at the images and discussion on this post LINK Flash from the Past (Show Us Your Fossils)MAPS Fossil Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartianColony Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 12 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Here's a few photos. I changed the settings on my phone's camera and got the file size to about 500kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 BINGO !! There's the Horn Coral KUDOS Fossildude19 !! Flash from the Past (Show Us Your Fossils)MAPS Fossil Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Looks like a chonetes type brachiopod. I've found a lot of those in the middle Devonian rocks with the "spines" at the rear like that (presumably they helped them stay in the mud). This looks like a later version though, not Devonochonetes. Like this picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Looks like strophomenid brachiopod brachial valve. I'm not seeing anything in the lateral views of the rock that support coral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 It definitely has a horn coral shape to me, but wouldn't it show column-like patterns, because if this is a coral it looks as if it were a half cross section of it ? "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Yeah it looks horn coral shaped, but the actual fossil doesn't go below the line of teeth looking things. I think you have a strophomenid brachiopod. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I'd suggest to polish the surface of the rock below the fossil to see how deep protrudes into the matrix, also, then we could see if other elements of the rugose coral morphology are present or not. 1 " 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...
Ludwigia Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 +1 for brachiopod. I think I can see some barbs there. Comparing the frontal with the side view shows that the "coral" should be cut in half. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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