Maxi Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Hello and thanks to those who will help me:) Ten years ago i found this fossil in a marble quarry in northern Italy (veneto). What is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Ciao! My guess is that this is a coral of some sort - do you know how old the rocks in the quarry are? (By the way - where in Veneto is this quarry? My parents are from Treviso - my mom is from Castelfranco and my dad is from Vittorio Veneto) Monica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxi Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 7 minutes ago, Monica said: Ciao! My guess is that this is a coral of some sort - do you know how old the rocks in the quarry are? (By the way - where in Veneto is this quarry? My parents are from Treviso - my mom is from Castelfranco and my dad is from Vittorio Veneto) Monica Ciao:) Sadly i can' t tell you how old are rocks in the quarry.The quarry is in Cornedo Vicentino (Vicenza) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 How about something like a worn Siderastrea sp. (a scleractinian coral)? I found the following picture at http://fossilcorals.blogspot.ca/2011/07/fossil-corals-museum-of-paleontology.html: Perhaps @abyssunder can help? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 The other find was Eocene right? So this would make sense. I suggest you use a toothbrush to remove the dirt and odds are you will find the little corallites in the holes. “...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...
Maxi Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said: The other find was Eocene right? So this would make sense. I suggest you use a toothbrush to remove the dirt and odds are you will find the little corallites in the holes. I can' t becuase is already clean. The dirt is like cement impossible to remove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, Maxi said: I can' t becuase is already clean. The dirt is like cement impossible to remove Oh, it's sandstone then. still nice piece of coral. “...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...
abyssunder Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Nice find. It is a scleractinian coral like Siderastrea, as it was stated before. The geological age is Eocene. You have the opportunity to find fossil crustaceans, mollusks, bivalves, echinoids, etc. in the vulcano-dendritic strata. Are you hunting in the Grolla quarry (Grola (Cornedo Vicentino, Vicenza, Italia settentrionale))? useful document: link " 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...
Pachy Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Stylocoenia. Typical spherical Stylocoenia colony. Stylocoenia-ball as I call it familiarly. The bases of the columns in the walls are observed. Element not present in Siderastrea. Abundant in tertiary ( Eocene and Oligocene ) coral strata from Europe ( Spain, Italy, France, Germany, etc. ). http://www.corallosphere.org/taxon/1451 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pachy Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Un ejemplo. Stylocoenia macrostyla Reuss 1874. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pachy Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Otro ejemplo. Procedente de Darga R. 1990. Reconstrucción más o menos artística de ejemplares. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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