Michelle Sawicki Library Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Usually I find impressions of crinoids. Is this an actual fossilized crinoid? It looks like a tiny flower. It is very small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Looks like a coral polyp. 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...
TqB Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Could be a solitary coral (not the polyp though, that's the actual soft animal). Or possibly a single crinoid columnal. How small is very small? Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 19 minutes ago, TqB said: (not the polyp though, that's the actual soft animal) Whoops. What do You call that part of the coral then. 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...
Kane Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Google to the rescue! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 29 minutes ago, ynot said: Whoops. What do You call that part of the coral then. It's a corallum - "exoskeleton of a solitary polyp or of a bud in a colony" (Treatise). Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 looks like the tip of a horn coral to me "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 More sharing options...
Gen. et sp. indet. Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 A coral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 I have never seen a crinoid facet with the characters shown in the specimen in question, so I'm leaning toward a coral. " 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...
erose Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Agreed that it is a coral. Too irregular. Crinoid columnals will have a much more regular and symmetrical form although the symmetry is most often pentagonal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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