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I am attaching two images of an Odovician receptaculite fossil from Scott City, VA. As it was considered to be a sponge when I acquired it I was thrilled because I had only previously seen disarticulated sponge spicules. There appears to be a more recent debate suggesting that receptaculites are algae. If one accepts the first image as the top of the fossil then the structure is consistent with sponge diagrams I saw in a high school Biology class. So how about some opinions on whether or not it is a sponge or fossil algae. So,is this the top? Or is this the top?
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A rangeomorph holdfast trace fossil from the Ediacara formation, Rawnsley quartzite of the Flinders Range, South Australia. This specimen is Medusina mawsoni, so called because it was until recently thought to be a jellyfish, but is now believed to be the attachment point of a fractal rangeomorph as Charniodiscus is the point of anchorage for Charnia sp. This one may have been the holdfast point for some species of Rangea. The diameter of the outer circle is 1.5 cm and the fossil is estimated to be 555 million years old.
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From the album: Ordovician Fossils
Amsassia algae? Taxonomy Phylum: ? Class: ? Subclass: ? Order: ? Family: ? Genus: ? Species: ? Author: ? Geology Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Stratigraphy Series: Upper Ordovician Stage: Katian Series: Cincinnatian Stage: Richmondian Sequence: C5 Unit: ? Provenance Collector: mtz Date: 07/07/023 Location: SW Ohio-
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From the album: Ordovician Fossils
Amsassia algae? Taxonomy Phylum: ? Class: ? Subclass: ? Order: ? Family: ? Genus: ? Species: ? Author: ? Geology Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Stratigraphy Series: Upper Ordovician Stage: Katian Series: Cincinnatian Stage: Richmondian Sequence: C5 Unit: ? Provenance Collector: mtz Date: 07/07/023 Location: SW Ohio -
Algae Porocystis globularis Glen Rose Formation
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Porocystis globularis with Worm tube Glen Rose Formation
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Algae Porocystis globularis Glen Rose Formation
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So yesterday, I found several associated verts to a large fish. It was partially exposed on the creek bottom and it had been awhile since the last rain, so tons of algae grew on it. I managed to pop it out in one piece and have begun trying to clean it up. Since fish and shale are sensitive when it comes to drying and wetting, I've kept it in water for the time being while I attempt to remove the algae. I will paraloid sections later once the algae is gone. I tried submerging the specimen overnight in about 2:5 bleach water solution to kill anything living on it. Afterwards I was able to scrub most of the larger bits of algae off, but there seems to be this millimeter thick layer of yellow algae/hardened matrix attached to the bone where it was exposed to water. I don't know if this is some calcium buildup or what, but it's tough to pry off and sometimes takes chunks of bones with it. I would try vinegar, but the fossil came out of what I believe to be Atco Fm, so even though the matrix has the appearance of shale, I would expect there to be some calcium carbonate in it that might dissolve. I'd prefer to have the vertebrae stay set in the matrix as the originally were if possible. The ultimate plan is to use the other side for presentation. One of the verts was offset and broke off the main chunk shortly after removal, so I could experiment a little with it first if needed. Thoughts? Thanks
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Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan?
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520-million-year-old animal fossils might not be animals after all The specimens may be an ancient type of algae, not creatures known as bryozoans ScienceNews, March 10, 2023 The paywalled paper is: Yang, J., Lan, T., Zhang, X.G. and Smith, M.R., 2023. Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan. Nature, published online, March 8, 2023 pp.1-5. Yorus, Paul H.-
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Porocystis globularis, Travis Co. Albian, Cretaceous Sept, 2022-
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These were found in a boulder used as rip rap along a rail bed here in Maine. I've never seen rock like it exposed in cuts along the route, so it may have been transported some distance. These are old photos, but I've donated the best examples to a local museum (Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine) and the label on it was destroyed. Unfortunately I can't find the post, but I'm quite sure it was identified as a calcareous algae known from the Ordovician. Can anyone help me identify it so that I can inform the folks at the museum. It's a small museum and they don't really have a paleontologist.
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Stromatolites are potentially present in every geologic period. Show any if you got 'em. The goal here is to represent every period, and every stage/epoch if possible, including subdivisions/periods of the Precambrian. These can be posted in no particular order. Any and all are welcome to post multiple examples from any period/epoch. I'll start with a specimen from the Pennsylvanian: Sniabar Limestone, Kasimovian/Missourian Stage, Pennsylvanian Kansas City, Missouri, USA The front side has been polished.
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Hello again my good friends. I did a petrographic thin section in a marine consolidated sediment, and i found some elements that seems to be microfossils. It is worth noting that these sediments are in a mandatory-way marine since in all of them are marine bivalves fragments. I also was unsure if put this here or either in the microfossil zone of the forum, leaving it here because it is an ID question. For each I'll leave a views in PPL and XPL. Hopefully someone may be able to recognize them at least broadly, and tell apart them from being forams, big diatoms or even algae. Greetings from Chile !!!!! PD: Sediment age may range from middle Eocene into the Miocene Fossil 1: Fossil 2: Fossil 3:
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Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago, offer new insights into the plant kingdom's roots
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A partial decalcified specimen from the Upper Ordovician. Scale bar: 5mm The image on the left shows 2 views of one mould, the image on the right shows 2 views of the other mould. Into the 2 moulds (expecially in the left one) you can see that the specimen has, almost sunk on its surface, a piece of ramose bryozoan (decalcified) and an echinoderm columnal (decalcified). We don't know if it could be some sort of sponge or calcareous algae, or other...
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For nearly twenty years, I've collected some strange fossils from a unique Pennsylvanian deposit in northeast Kansas. I've been pondering them to this day, and I'm still drawing a blank. I first found this slab: The bold segments caught my eye. I then noticed that they have a branching habit. I assumed they were sponges, but then I found this: This one is also segmented and bifurcated, but it forms a nearly continuous surface. Perplexed, I looked at them up close. They seem to form thin (0.5 mm), leaf-like sheets (i.e. thalli). I nicknamed these 'pahoeids', because they resemble pahoehoe lava flows. Some appear to be featureless sheets. This one, with an attached Coelocladia sponge, was fractured. This may give a clue to its original consistency: Here, the tips of some 'pahoeids' seem to be present: (For scale, the squares on the couch cushion are 18 mm across. I took the photo after I found the rock back in October.) Here's the same piece from the side: This chunk demonstrates how the 'pahoeids' bind the sediment. They are so abundant, they actually form beds and lenses of limestone within a shaly matrix. The few 'pahoeids' I've found in situ were on the undersides of slabs. The top surfaces of the organisms are never cleanly exposed; they are always locked in matrix. Also, encrusting bryozoans and brachiopods are often attached to the surface. All of this tells me the 'pahoeid' thalli were once suspended above the substrate. Some more specimens.... Here's another bifurcated sheet: And another: These seem to be 'juveniles': These form long, parallel branches: This limestone nodule contains what are possibly undeformed 'pahoeid' thalli: Note how the orangish sediment seems to 'fill' the little 'cups'. An underlying limestone bed seems to contain fragmented 'pahoeids' as well as several Amblysiphonella sponges: As to the nature of 'pahoeids', the only thing I can think of is some form of red algae, perhaps similar to present-day Mesophyllum or Peyssonnelia. It's possible they could be something akin to the Pennsylvanian Archaeolithophyllum. So far, I've been unable to discern any fine internal structure. If they indeed are phylloid algae, this will be the only example I know of where they are preserved in shale, let alone left with readily observable morphology. For the sake of this post, I'm lumping all these thalli forms together as 'pahoeids'. They very well may represent a number of different organisms. Here's a stratigraphic chart based on my sketches and observations in the field: Going by the lithology, I've guessed that the 'pahoeids' lie in the Frisbie Limestone (which is, stratigraphically, a transgressive limestone). As far as I know, the beds could, instead, belong to the upper Liberty Memorial Shale. The 'pahoeid' beds are a complex bundle of shale and impure limestone beds and lenses. At the top, there is limestone made up of fine fossil debris. There is pyrite and glauconite present througout the unit. Below the Frisbie is the Liberty Memorial Formation, which is a typical shallow marine/non-marine shale. It is medium gray, sandy, and contains thin beds of sandstone in places. Trace fossils, including Conostichus, are present. Above the 'pahoeid' beds is the Quindaro, a deeper-water shale. Fossils include profusely abundant sponges (Heliospongia ramosa, Maeandrostia, and especially Fissispongia), as well as some small crinoids, bryozoans, and brachiopods. The thick limestone above the Quindaro appears to be typical Argentine (which is regressive, for those taking notes ), but the strata in the area are anything but routine. These sponge-'pahoeid' deposits are near the edge of a large algal reef build-up in the Wyandotte Formation. Less than a half mile away in either direction, fossils at this horizon are sparse to absent.
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Hardly anybody ever talks about the Cambrian fossils of the southern midcontinent (USA). They're super-underappreciated. Show us what you've got! Here's one to start us off: Thorax and pygidium of a trilobite, possibly Orygmaspis, typically referred to as "Orygmaspis cf. Orygmaspis llanoensis" but probably a different species altogether. Note the two pairs of macropleural spines marking the final thoracic segments. Davis Formation (late Cambrian: Furongian), south side of Highway 8, St. François County, Missouri.
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There have been other microbes freed from ice or salt before, but if these are indeed alive they shatter all records for oldest living things by about 600 million years!!! https://www.sciencealert.com/830-million-year-old-microorganisms-found-trapped-in-australian-rock/amp
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PBFossilAgae05.tif Pittsburg Bluff Formation (near Mist, Oregon) Late Eocene or early Miocene. I am finding a lot these tubular items in the matrix. Still waiting from the adapter for my good camera, this is from a 5 mpx camera. Since it is a marine environment, perhaps this is some type of Algae? On my 27" screen the yellow ring part has fuzzy hairs protruding. This was taken with a 5 mpx camera and a 10X objective.
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Illusory erect spines(?) on a Kimmswick receptaculitid
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UPDATE: These seem to just be weirdly incomplete cross-sections through ordinary cylindrical meroms. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This weekend in the Kimmswick Limestone in eastern Missouri (Pike County) I saw plenty of receptaculitid algae, mostly of genus Fisherites. But one cross-section has a feature I've never seen before: a fringe of what look like erect spines on the external surface. Can someone point me to a reference for understanding this feature functionally and/or taxonomically? I've looked in the usual places but I don't seem to be finding anything about spines. (If I were a vertebrate paleontologist, I would be saying they were feathers and proclaiming receptaculitids' "Sinosauropteryx moment.") Thanks.-
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