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Nj Cretaceous stream turtle?


brad hinkelman

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This looks like the paleozoic corals that are found in the brooks occasionally. (Glacial erratics or from up in the highlands, brought down by the streams.)

Maybe a Favosites sp. 

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The side view certainly looks like a favositid coral, but I'm puzzled by the top view that shows rhomboid "coralites" with distinct boundaries between them.  Ceriod tabulates such as Favosites invariably have hexagonal corallites with a wall, not a groove, between them.

 

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Not sure what it is, but it doesn't 'feel' like a coral to me 

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On 3/9/2018 at 3:50 PM, FossilDAWG said:

The side view certainly looks like a favositid coral, but I'm puzzled by the top view that shows rhomboid "coralites" with distinct boundaries between them.  Ceriod tabulates such as Favosites invariably have hexagonal corallites with a wall, not a groove, between them.

 

Don

Rugose maybe? The side of a Heliophyllum cup? 

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