Noobductive Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 (edited) Hello! This fossil was found by my older brother and father in the 2010’s on a riverbank near the Wallonian village of Palogne. I matched this locality with a map of known deposits in the region; there are both lower Devonian and dinantian-Carboniferous layers in this general area. Still, there are so many different deposits in the bigger region and since this was on a riverbank it could’ve been washed up from anywhere. Both sides and all edges are covered in either imprints, or the fossil itself (I am not familiar with it so I can’t tell). One side has more and smaller circles, the opposite side has less and bigger ones, and they are stretched/warped along the sides of this rock. It has been sitting on a shelf for years and years until I got into fossil collecting and my father gave it to me. I’d love to figure out what this is! Edited August 4 by Noobductive Addition 4 Link to post Share on other sites
hemipristis Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Agree wit coral. Wish I could assist on an ID, but not my bailiwick. Great detail! Link to post Share on other sites
TqB Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Welcome to the forum. I think this is probably a species of Diphyphyllum, from the lower Carboniferous (so Dinantian fits) and it's abundant in Belgium. Siphonodendron is a possibility but the central structure looks wrong, as far as I can see from that preservation. It's tricky to pin down corals without knowing the stratigraphy but the structure matches well and I don't know and can't find any Devonian close lookalikes. You have the fossil itself, with the skeleton weathered below the matrix. It's an attractive specimen. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FranzBernhard Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 21 minutes ago, TqB said: It's an attractive specimen. I immediately felt in love with that one!! Franz Bernhard 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Noobductive Posted August 5 Author Share Posted August 5 3 hours ago, TqB said: Welcome to the forum. I think this is probably a species of Diphyphyllum, from the lower Carboniferous (so Dinantian fits) and it's abundant in Belgium. Siphonodendron is a possibility but the central structure looks wrong, as far as I can see from that preservation. It's tricky to pin down corals without knowing the stratigraphy but the structure matches well and I don't know and can't find any Devonian close lookalikes. You have the fossil itself, with the skeleton weathered below the matrix. It's an attractive specimen. Thank you so much for this identification! Diphyphylium seems about right 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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