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Hello, I am only 13 but I have picked up a lot of fossils. I don't know what half of the fossils are. I hope you can help. I found this fossil on the Jebal Hafeet nountain in Al Ain, UAE. It is very small.  I am curious as to what it is. It looks like some sort of coral. The area l found it in was known for its marine fossils. I also found several larger corals on the same mountain.20181230_144511.thumb.jpg.4dbc010a69553343cc58c975ba0fe67f.jpg

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The scale is too small for coral, and the shapes aren't right for bryozoan.

I think it's something similar to a nummulite, but just what I don't know.

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39 minutes ago, Johannes said:

Beside Foraminifera it can be also a Lunulites

It's the view in the top photo I had trouble making fit.

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@Rockwood: I agree with you and wouldn't exclude Foraminifera without better pictures and Informations about the geology, but it can also be a filling with sand(stone). I also know the foraminiferal limestones of this region, where eocene Nummulites are very, very common (with about 8 cm size in the UAE deposits).

 

First Picture is definitely more pointing to foram, second make doubts on this...

 

 

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1 hour ago, Johannes said:

First Picture is definitely more pointing to foram, second make doubts on this...

You know, it could be a foram. that's been encrusted by a bryozoan.

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31 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

You know, it could be a foram. that's been encrusted by a bryozoan.

One more point for better pictures... ;) (but (sorry about my "but"s): Lunulites did not encrust and is evolved by its functional morphology for living on soft grounds (muds and fine sands). The "pore-structures" at the second picture seem to be radial symetric, so if not this genus or relatives, you are compromisless right and it is a foraminifer with one-side eroded chambers... :)

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6 minutes ago, Johannes said:

so if not this genus or relatives, you are compromisless right

I can't disagree, but it's out of ignorance so I couldn't agree if I wanted to.

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I was thinking sponge too, but I am very uneducated in this area. I’d love to see close up pics of it.

It looks beautiful in the second pic. It looks like it has a lot of detail.

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1 hour ago, MrBones said:

I found several. Since they are so small it is hard to get a clear photo.

Hope this helps.

Upper ones are definitely something related to Nummulites. The smaller discs I will ask a friend for, foraminiferanaddicted may know his site: http://foraminifera.eu/

 

If them are Foraminiferans he will confirm...

 

 

 

 

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The specimen in question looks like a half of a microspheric numulitid foraminiferan, naturally splitted in the equatorial plane, and that plane might be encrusted by bryozoan.

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those might be Lepidocyclina,but don't quote me on that.

Larger operculinid forams are mostly hard to tell apart,biometry might be the order of the day

 

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