Carmen Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I keep finding these little things in my stones, what are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Carmen said: I keep finding these little things in my stones, what are they? Please include a scale in Your pictures.We also need to know a location or age of the find. Looks like a couple of different bryozoan in the rock. 1 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...
Carmen Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 Oh sorry! I found this in southwest Michigan (vicksburg) just a few weeks ago, it's around the size of a baseball. You can't tell in the picture but the white chunk (grouping of multiple pieces?) on the bottom shimmers like it may be crystallized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Yeah, bryozoans for sure, and maybe some branching corals. Shimmer maybe calcite. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Yeah, bryozoans for sure, and maybe some branching corals. Shimmer maybe calcite. Yeah, branching tabulate coral for sure, and maybe some bryozoan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 11 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Yeah, bryozoans for sure, and maybe some branching corals. It is an odd situation. The most identifiable ones seem to be tabulates, but the most visible one could well be a bryozoan. It looks like an axial core of an incomplete colony to me though, which in the tabulate would look similar to a bryozoan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, Rockwood said: It is an odd situation. The most identifiable ones seem to be tabulates, but the most visible one could well be a bryozoan. It looks like an axial core of an incomplete colony to me though, which in the tabulate would look similar to a bryozoan. They are often very hard to tell apart without detailed thin sections. Such is life! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves64 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said: They are often very hard to tell apart without detailed thin sections. I know some people like that... Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 As several have said, looks mostly like bryozoan. Even can see a fenestrate version in the upper center of the picture. In southern Michigan, Devonian aged would be very likely if found in place (unlikely except in a quarry) but way more likely to be out of the glacial till that covers the area and therefore the age possibilities go way up. Always entertaining to paw through a pile of glacial material and see what you can find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 19 minutes ago, ClearLake said: Even can see a fenestrate version in the upper center of the picture. This area ? To me it looks too thick (not flat enough). The right side of it is what I call the most recognizable tabulate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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