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Fossil ID - Missouri


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Hello new to The Forum I found this fossil a few years back in a lake in Northern Missouri on a rocky area on shore it's a little over an inch long rounded. kind of looks like a tooth but really just do not know what it is. I would love some help with an idea of what it may be.

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It's a nice example of a rugose solitary horn coral. The rugose corals went extinct at the close of the Paleozoic Era.

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Welcome to the Forum. :) 

I agree - Rugose or "Horn" coral.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Welcome to TFF from Kansas City.  I find these corals occasionally in the southern KC area.  Nice find.

 

Russ

 

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