Jump to content

Coral, but what type?


aSubtleHero7CN

Recommended Posts

Hey, everyone! I am pretty confident this is a type of coral; but does anyone know what specific type it is? Thank you for sharing your expertise with me!

IMG_8142.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It is a tabulate rugose coral, but the experts will want a picture straight down on the top. (the part above Your thumb.)

 

edit-- missed this one.

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

II think it is a colonial rugose coral, not a tabulate.  Perhaps a Lithostrotionella, a common Mississippian coral in the Midwest.  For comparison:

 

 

 

coral_lithostrotionella.jpg

coral_lithostrotionellaB.jpg

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I agree with Harry Pristis

Lithostrotion proliferum.jpg

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen

No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go.

" I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes

"can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Very nice rugosan coral! :wub: It seems to be an Acrocyathus, which is a newer genus name for some corals previously included in Lithostrontion or Lithostrontionella.

 

Don

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Wonderful! Thank you, everyone, for the pictures, links, etc. It is great to be putting titles to the fossils I find. Here is another view of this one in particular.

IMG_0593.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...