copacetic Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Hello again, Fossil Forum. I have some actual fossils for you now. My seven-year-old daughter finds these tiny things mixed in with the gravel on her school playground. I don't know if the gravel is local to us in Kentucky, but it might be. The first one has so much contrast it looks like someone painted the white parts of it! I assume it's some kind of coral, but I don't know what kind. The second item is one of the best she's found as it seems to be in very good shape. I don't know if it's plant matter or again, coral. I'd love to be able to label it in her little fossil box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Not sure about the first piece, second looks like a bryozoan. 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...
Vieira Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Looks like some type of coral or bryozoan to me.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 There's almost enough curving and overlapping in that first piece to question if it could be a coprolite filled burrow. @GeschWhat and @Carl you think maybe ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Your little daughter already knows what are the important things in live ! Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Rockwood said: There's almost enough curving and overlapping in that first piece to question if it could be a coprolite filled burrow. @GeschWhat and @Carl you think maybe ? I see what you're saying, Rocky, but I think the units are too organised to be coprolites. I suspect some colonial marine invertebrate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, Carl said: too organised to be coprolites. Not surprised. It could be something like syringopora. Some of the curves being the crossing structures. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 29 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Not surprised. It could be something like syringopora. Some of the curves being the crossing structures. I agree, Syringopora was my first thought for no.1. 3 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Yup. Syringopora tabulate coral does seem to match #1. My first impression on #2 also seemed to look like a bryozoan with individual zooid chambers. Your daughter has the curiosity (and the eye) to be a good fossil hunter. Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copacetic Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thank you, everyone! I think Syringopora is very likely because many of the images I see in Google Image Search have that stark coloring contrast, plus marine fossils are the most likely for this area, I think. Looking up bryozoans, I think based on this image that the second fossil is leioclema: http://isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geology-resources/bryozoans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I'm thinking it's way too small to be Syringopora. My gut says bryozoan but that's mostly speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, Carl said: I'm thinking it's way too small to be Syringopora. Are you taking into account that it could be an internal mold ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Are you taking into account that it could be an internal mold ? Yeah. I just think the tubes are way too small. But I also can't at all claim to know corals very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 20 minutes ago, Carl said: I'm thinking it's way too small to be Syringopora. My gut says bryozoan but that's mostly speculation. It is small but there are Syringoporids a millimetre or a bit less in diameter which is what that seems to be. Can't see the internal structure (distinctive tabulae) that would make it more definite though. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copacetic Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Here are a couple more photos of specimen 1, taken outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 It looks like Syringopora, to me, but I'm not a coral expert. " 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...
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