Rosemary Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I plucked this from Cherry Creek in Winona Lake, IN, and am wondering what is encrusting the stone. Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 The other side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 What's the scale ? It looks as if the morphology has been obscured by beekite formation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 They don't look like beekites to me...perhaps I am wrong, but all of the beekites I have seen are thin and on the surace, and have a concentric pattern to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 could they be some kind of tubeworm casings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 It may be a sponge? Raphidonema farringdonense possibly? Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 40 minutes ago, dalmayshun said: They don't look like beekites to me...perhaps I am wrong, but all of the beekites I have seen are thin and on the surace, and have a concentric pattern to them I have to disagree with you on this. A quick image search confirms my observation that beekite can become a complete replacement. Edit: Finding my examples was going to take too long. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 43 minutes ago, dalmayshun said: They don't look like beekites to me...perhaps I am wrong, but all of the beekites I have seen are thin and on the surace, and have a concentric pattern to them I believe that the fossils are encrusted with beekite, or the beginnings of such. See the areas I have circled. These could be sponge, bryozoans, or coral. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which. 2 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...
Herb Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 looks like a coral to me, something like this. 4 "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...
grandpa Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said: These could be sponge, bryozoans, or coral. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which. Another fine specimen of sponcorbryo, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 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...
Rosemary Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Thanks for the feedback! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 22 minutes ago, Rosemary said: Thanks for the feedback! It could be more informative and less feedbackish if we knew . . . How big is it ? ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 The stone is 3 cm. The diameter of the "circles" is 1 mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I think that would tilt things toward a tabulate coral similar to syringopora. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Syringoporid tabulate coral for me as well. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I agree with syringoporid, and that it has at least some beekite replacement. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I see the beekites also...I misunderstood. I thought the comment was that the circular raised pieces in the second image looked like beekites...You meant, I am surmising, that beekites were on the surface, not that the fossil tubes were beekites. Is that correct, or do beekites take on a tubular form over time. Thanks, I always appreciate the knowledge I find here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 The coral tubes themselves have been replaced by beekite completely, not just on the surface, in some areas, during diagenesis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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