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Hello, 

 

Found these two fossils in Schellinkhout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schellinkhout) in the 70's and have never been able to find out what they are. 

I have two of them, found them on the same little beach with a few weeks of separation. 

 

About 10 cm long, 4 cm wide and tapered in a short of fin-like shape, looks to me like wood or of vegetal origin, but I find nothing similar when I search for fossilised wood pictures.

 

Would love to hear what you think, 

 

Cheers.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, ynot said:

Maybe a coral(?)

Yeah I was also searching in that direction but the pictures I find are different.

I wonder if it is just wood that eroded in a particular way by being underwater in a current and fossilised afterwards.

Then again, finding two similar pieces, you'd think it is a common find at this location.

Also searched a bit for that, but no luck. In fact I have never seen a similar fossil. Not in museums, not on the Internet. Drives me mad.

Coral seems a very good bet though.

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They are meandroid coral ("brain coral") fragments.

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3 minutes ago, abyssunder said:

They are meandroid coral ("brain coral") fragments.

Ah, just looked that up. You are probably right ! Thanks ! 

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Pretty neat...they almost look like barnacle frags I find here...I'll have to look tonight on a real screenn...this phone display just doesn't do much....thanks for the post...regards chris

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33 minutes ago, Plantguy said:

Pretty neat...they almost look like barnacle frags I find here...I'll have to look tonight on a real screenn...this phone display just doesn't do much....thanks for the post...regards chris

 

I think so too- barnacle fragments.

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4 hours ago, doushantuo said:

Just for clarity's sake:that's NOT a taxonomical asessment

General direction is good enough for my purposes, but wow it gets complicated pretty fast with Corals I see !

 

Found this one, after abysunders' hint : http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/3581 that actually looks a lot like mine, especially in the side view. But it seems it is not a fossil. :)

 

Will check out the Barnacle fragments now, see what fits better. It came out of the sea, I think we agree on that one. 

 

Thanks all !

 

 

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I could see the resemblance in details. :)

 

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8 hours ago, Plantguy said:

Pretty neat...they almost look like barnacle frags I find here...I'll have to look tonight on a real screenn...this phone display just doesn't do much....thanks for the post...regards chris

 

7 hours ago, Al Dente said:

 

I think so too- barnacle fragments.

I have not seen a barnacle with an undulating cross section or that type of branching in the shell.

Would love to see some pictures if You have them.

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I wouldn't expect to find a tropical coral in the Netherlands, plus it really doesn't look like any coral I have seen. I don't have access to my collection this week but some of the larger barnacles have similar texture. Do a google search of Megabalanus. Modern barnacles have a similar pattern of hollow tubes inside the plates. The tubes in the posted fossil don't really resemble corallites.

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51 minutes ago, Al Dente said:

I wouldn't expect to find a tropical coral in the Netherlands, plus it really doesn't look like any coral I have seen. I don't have access to my collection this week but some of the larger barnacles have similar texture. Do a google search of Megabalanus. Modern barnacles have a similar pattern of hollow tubes inside the plates. The tubes in the posted fossil don't really resemble corallites.

During Pangea episode Holland and U.K. were tropical so I understand.

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Ok the clearer pictures on this computer display make me still believe its a barnacle fragment..The size of your frags are impressive-must be a big critter. Here are some shots of the tropical fossil version that I've been finding in the past couple months--you can see some of the undulations and internal textures that caught my untrained eye as Eric/Tony are noting. Wouldnt be at all surprised if Eric has it pegged. 

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I'm definitely not a invert person but like picking the dang extant/extinct things up and looking at em...Thanks for triggering the curiousity! Regards, Chris 

 

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3 minutes ago, Yvie said:

During Pangea episode Holland and U.K. were tropical so I understand.

 

That is true but brain corals are fairly modern, not Paleozoic. In the Paleozoic you would expect rugosan and tabulate corals which don't resemble your fossil. 

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Can we have pictures of the opposite sides of the specimens?

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2 hours ago, Plantguy said:

--you can see some of the undulations and internal textures

I still do not see the branching and undulating cross section that is in the OP's piece.

 

22 hours ago, tsaar said:

Ah, just looked that up. You are probably right

A picture straight on to the wide end would also help with the id.

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Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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Thank you for the pictures. They aren't barnacle plates. They are pretty nice meandroid coral fragments (as I thought) tumbled by the waves to the shore. :)

 

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