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Coral? found in Keokuk IA area


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Last fall I was out near Keokuk Iowa collecting geodes during Geodefest 2016.  On a day hunt I was collecting really close to Keokuk, Iowa and Hamilton, IL and we were at a site in the Fox River.  While collecting geodes I usually will find pieces of fossil corals and throw them in the bucket.  I recently had a geode cracking party with a buddy last weekend finally cracking the geodes I collected and found this in a bucket from the trip.  I know it was collected in the Fox River and I think the river is actually right over the Missouri border.  Looks like a coral to me but wanted to see if I can get a confirmation on that or any more info.

 

Thanks!

 

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Looks like a bivalve to me.

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I'm confused.  I'm familiar with the Fox River in northeastern Illinois. Is there a Fox River in southern Illinois?

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8 minutes ago, Rob Russell said:

I'm confused.  I'm familiar with the Fox River in northeastern Illinois. Is there a Fox River in southern Illinois?

 

Rob, 

 

Looks like maybe the Fox River he mentions is in Missouri:

 

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Thanks.  I wasn't confident with the "coral" id.  I didn't see any coral structure.   

 

 

 

23 minutes ago, Rob Russell said:

I'm confused.  I'm familiar with the Fox River in northeastern Illinois. Is there a Fox River in southern Illinois?

 

 

The map is correct.  I was so confused when people were calling this waterway the "Fox River". I was trying to figure out how our Fox River was all the way over there too??  But it is just the same name but different waterway all together.  

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Does anyone else see possible ammonite in this? Except for the third picture I would go with that as a possibility as well.

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9 minutes ago, Scylla said:

Does anyone else see possible ammonite in this? Except for the third picture I would go with that as a possibility as well.

 

That was my first thought, but I just couldn't reconcile that ID with the 3rd picture. :unsure: 

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the type of preservation looks a bit like that in goniatites from the Namurian of the Pyrenees

 

 

 

 

 

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I had a cephalopod vibe with it but the "bottom" of it (pic 3) throws me off as to what it is too.  ?

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Just throwing in another possibility. I don't think it's this, but it's quite possibly related to it.

 

A kind of oyster, Rastellum gregareum , found on the Vaches Noires, France, from the late Jurassic. (Those are two different specimens btw)

 

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