Jens Johansen Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 (edited) Yesterday I did find another interesting stone at a fishing trip. (I fish alot, and when no fish to catch I collect stones :-)) It's Flint stone with a White layer of Chalk/opal - est. 65-200 Ma. Please help me ID the Fossil - if it is a Fossil ? What do you think? Pictures taken from to sides of the stone. Best regards, Jens Edited June 1, 2017 by Jens Johansen added another picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Looks like bryozoan to Me, but I do not know bryozoans that well. The "white" layer is the oxidized layer on the surface of the chert. 2 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...
Fossildude19 Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 @TqB 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 May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 I think that it could be a colonial coral, similar to Syringopora, if not that. 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...
TqB Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 I believe it's a Cretaceous Chalk sponge. There are many different kinds - look at Ventriculites, some are at least similar. 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 I'd wager it is some sort of sponge. EDIT: Doh! Beat to the punch by Tarquin! 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...
Miocene_Mason Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Yeah, I agree, looks spongey. 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Johansen Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 Thank you all ! - I have added another Picture that maybe help ID. I agree it looks like a sponge - one Danish guy believe it's some kind of ventriculites sp. Ventriculites Radiatus seems to be the most common one. Cretaceous period (144 - 65 million years ago) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Johansen Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 On 31-05-2017 at 9:31 PM, TqB said: I believe it's a Cretaceous Chalk sponge. There are many different kinds - look at Ventriculites, some are at least similar. Thank you Tarquin. I believe you are right - some kind of Ventriculites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 Might be Sporadoscinia as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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