Ammonoid Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Is this a chain coral between the sutures of the ammonite Metoicoceras? About 4mm long (photo taken thru microscope). From the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Tropic Shale in Utah. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Halysites became extinct in the Silurian and the whole tabulate coral group in the Permian extinction. Some sort of bryozoa would be my guess. 6 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 probably bryozoa 1 "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammonoid Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Indeed! thank you Tidgy's Dad! A ctenostome bryozoan 1 Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I agree with the bryozoan ID. (like chains) excerpt from Wilson, Mark & Taylor, Paul. (2012). Palaeoecology, Preservation and Taxonomy of Encrusting Ctenostome Bryozoans Inhabiting Ammonite Body Chambers in the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota, USA. 10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_28. 4 " 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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