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Fossil Sponge? Found in central Tennessee


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This was found on a relative's farm in central Tennessee about 20 years ago. It looks like a sponge, and a museum I took it to a long time ago said it was, but I wanted to know what you guys thought. Other fossils found on the same farm include shells, coral, and tool fragments made from antlers.

 

Some of the holes in the fossil go all the way through. Whatever it turns out to be, it's pretty cool-looking.

 

 

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I agree..the corals themselves are gone and what you have is the sediment that filled in the spaces between them. Probably Lithostrotion or some such type, but will be difficult to id without the coralites.

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53 minutes ago, EMP said:

Museum would know more than me. Certainly looks like it.

 

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This is a tabulate of similar form.

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It is a Coral and if I had to ID the specimen, it looks like a badly weathered lower Mississippian, Tuscumbia Limestone, Coral Acrocyathus floriformis. Lithostrotionella and Lithostrotion is now assigned to the genus Acrocyathus.

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