jimmythekid27 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Found on a Southern England beach on our Honeymoon, just wondered what it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Welcome to TFF! Congratulations on the event of a lifetime! Your rock looks like it has part of a horn coral in it. 4 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...
Fossildude19 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Welcome to the Forum. I agree with Tony, .. a water worn Rugose Coral. 3 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 That is a very neat stone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmythekid27 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 Thanks for the replies gents, nice to put a name to a face- so to speak. Interesting stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 For context, horn corals were solitary corals that lived on Earth from the Ordovician to the Permian (as old as ~500 million years and as young as 250 million years old). By comparison the oldest known dinosaurs are about 245 million years old. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 The reddish/blackish matrix has a Devonian look to it (both the period and the county it's named from), the sort of thing you can find naturally around the Torquay area. The only other rugose corals you get on the south coast are from Carboniferous limestone imported as rock armour against coastal erosion. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 3 hours ago, ynot said: Welcome to TFF! Congratulations on the event of a lifetime! That First Fossil is always a biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Q: Is this a fossil? A: Yes, it is. 1 " 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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