hrguy54 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I've had this for several years but just got around to prepping it. I believe I've seen similar on the site in the past few years but don't remember what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Prasopora ? 1 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...
abyssunder Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I would go with coral in this moment, although it could be bryozoan or stromatoporoid. Hard to say, looking at your pictures. Close-up images from more angles may help in the ID. " 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...
hrguy54 Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 I was thinking Bryozoan, too, due to the "lines" seen in 3rd picture below. But couldn't find any similar on-line Has other "something" on the top (2nd picture below).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Any other thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I think that Tim got it with Prasopora. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 A geologists at my Gem and Mineral club meeting last night suggested it might be a Stromatoporoid, with perhaps a bryozoan (paraspora?) "growing" on top of it. He has found something similar...the layering...in a local quarry. Anyone's thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 28 minutes ago, hrguy54 said: A geologists at my Gem and Mineral club meeting last night suggested it might be a Stromatoporoid, with perhaps a bryozoan (paraspora?) "growing" on top of it. He has found something similar...the layering...in a local quarry. Anyone's thoughts? I think that is certainly a possibility. You would probably need to slice it in half and polish a surface for the detail needed to ID either accurately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 3 hours ago, erose said: You would probably need to slice it in half and polish a surface for the detail needed to ID either accurately. That ain't gonna happen. If no one is really sure what it is then it becomes a Collector's Item. One of a kind. It will be a part of the Dayton Gem and Mineral Society (DGMS) display at the 2019 GeoFair in Cincinnati the first weekend in May. One of the "Fascinating Fossils". Come one, come all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 5 hours ago, hrguy54 said: A geologists at my Gem and Mineral club meeting last night suggested it might be a Stromatoporoid, with perhaps a bryozoan (paraspora?) "growing" on top of it. It looks like a good possibility from the pictures, but identifying things like this from a picture is problematic. If a local geologist made this identification after an in hand examination, I would go with the ID given. 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...
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