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Good morning! Found this fairly pronounced coral on a jog this morning. I'll never know really where it came from since central Indiana is not known for any level of fossils due to glaciers but I'm assuming this was transported from southern Indiana or Ohio. It matches a coral from the Ordovician period timeline.... I just can't nail down what kind. I'm for sure going to leave it in the stone. I think it looks pretty sweet with how it is housed. .... my wife hates how whenever I come home from anywhere I have a new find.
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What is this? found in Emerald Isle NC. Is 4-5 inches across.
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Hi, I found this on the beach CW Florida. It is brittle, thin and very light but does not float. It's full of aeration holes so I'm guessing it's a type of sponge? 2 photos of front and back. Any help appreciated.
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Hi Everyone, Found some fossils of what appear to be coral but would just like to get some clarification. Both pieces where found on the Murrumbidgee river near Wee Jasper, NSW. The first specimen has a piece of what I'm assuming is Horn coral but there is another impression next to it that looks like it might be something as well. It is round, 30mm in diameter and textured like a sponge. The second, I'm not really sure, but it may be coral? There are two roughly textured patterns, round, one bigger than the other. First one (smaller) is 35mm radius and second is 65mm radius Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much, Jed
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Hi Everyone! I found this on the Murrumbidgee river near Wee Jasper NSW. Was found near other shell/mollusk fossils (pic also attached).
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Coral from the Campanian St. Bartholomä formation, Styria, Austria (Gosau group, Eastern Alps)
FranzBernhard posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, some of you may have noticed my rudist posts from the Gosau basin of Kainach - St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria. Beside rudists, there are also other fossils, but they are much rarer. During my hunting trips in the Campanian St. Bartholomä formation, I have found ca. 300 rudist specimens (hippuritidae and radiolitidae), but only 12 coral colonies, including two imprints, and no individual coral. I would like to show you one of these coral colonies and would like to ask you for your opinion. I will start with the simplest one. In the literature, only one coral species is described and two others are mentioned (without description) from St. Bartholomä. No pictures are published of any of these three coral species. Here is the only existing description of a coral from this formation (Schmidt, 1908): „Ein halbkugeliger Knollen von 5 cm Durchmesser aus der oberen Hippuritenbank von Kalchberg. Auf einem Anschliff sieht man in der Mitte ein Feld, wo die Kelche senkrecht stehen, am Rand sind sie dem Schliff parallel. … Die Kelche haben einen Durchmesser von 1-1.2 mm. An den Septen sind zwei Zyklen zu je acht Stück vorhanden. Das Säulchen ist punktförmig. Sehr schön ist das Cönenchym, aus unregelmäßig angeordneten Kalzifikationszentren bestehen, ausgebildet." "Half-spherical colonie with 5 cm diameter. ... The corallites have a diameter of 1-1.2 mm. There are 2 septal cycles with 8 septa each. The columella is point-like." He identified this coral as : Astrocoenia orbignyana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 According to Baron-Szabo (2014), this is today: Actinastrea orbignyi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) The first two pictures are this species, figured in Baron-Szabo (2014). First scale bar is 10 mm, second one 3 mm. Specimen is from Gosau-Rusbach, Austria. The third picture is my specimen from St. Bartholomä. Its very rough at the outside, but not so bad preserved inside. Sorry, I can not make a better picture. I think it comes close to the description and pictures of Actinastrea orbignyi. What do you think? Thank you very much for your opinion! Franz Bernhard Literature: Baron-Szabo, R. Ch. (2014): Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and Northern Dinarides with remarks on related taxa. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 68, 1-296. Schmidt, W. (1908): Die Kreidebildungen der Kainach. Jahrbuch der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt, 58, 223-246.
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Good morning, all. Here's a few I've been working on today. Found in sw florida, I think I'm in part of the Tamiami formation. Anyway, I think the little snail is possibly Nassarivus Quadredentatus, but not sure. The large grey I think might be Nodipecten, also not positive. The ones that look like little elephant feet I'm pretty sure are a type of coral, but I can't find a match so I could be wrong. The little "toothed" thing I'm thinking is a steinkern, but would like to know for sure, and from what type of critter. Is the button a sponge? And then there's the wormy looking thing, or shell rim? There are 6 objects shown, shots with multiple angles are grouped together. Any help would totally be appreciated!
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Can someone please help me out here? I'm new to all of this and my friend is asking me about this fossil he stumbled upon today in Ohio. I've been researching other posts but I'm not 100% on what I'm looking at here. Thank you!
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Weathered out of the limestone cliffs at Torquay in Victoria. Not sure what it is ?? Does anyone have an idea ?
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Not sure what this is, but my first thought was fossil coral. Can anyone help? I don't remember where I found it.
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Going through the stuff in my bucket that had dried out from my last trip, found more stuff that I can only guess what they might be. The first three are of a tiny disc with holes along the periphery. The next two are of three pieces of a flat discoid "rock", that was more fragile than i thought, looks like from something alive. Last two seem too light for bone, so I'm guessing sponges? Probably some of you will know (penny = 0.75 inches or 19 mm in diameter): Thanks!
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Hey, my name is Jake and will be attending to Toccoa falls college as a sophomore. I'm studying biology and plan to be a marine biologist. During my freshman year, I was offered an opportunity I've been waiting forever since I was a little kid, and that was to identify fossils. The internship is a first in the school's history and I feel a lot of pressure to do this right. So hopefully you all can help me out. This is the specifics of the internship were that my bio professor gave me this random box of fossils that have never been identified and have no location of there findings. During my summer break, I was supposed to identify 13 fossils (ps one of the fossils was a dried plum lol ) and when I went back to school make some sort of display for them. I have been work on this all summer but I'm kinda a noob at it and I've kinda identified three of them. Hopefully, we can get the rest of them with all of your experience paleontology skills. I will post the finished product as well when it is completed.
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Found on a beach near limestone cliffs just wondering if it’s a fossil and if so of what ?
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I think this is some type of coral. Its eight inches in length 1&3/4width the fossil is two tubes that run parrel with each other but still is attached in the middle. Inside the tubes, there are hollow in the center may be for transportation of water and nutrients or something.
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I was hiking in Utah and found these. I think they are corals.
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I honestly can't say where this fossil came from. As a natural collector of many different things, there are lots of odd items in my house. Since my 7 year old has some interest in fossils and rocks, I've gathered up what I had and put it with her playground finds. In trying to ID our finds, I assumed this was a favosite, but it's not exactly like most pictured on the internet. The tabulae (? the divisions in each tube) aren't very evenly spaced, nor are they flat. The first view seems to show unusual little compartments with tiny openings, but I think the wearing of the fossil is responsible for that appearance. I always took the first view as being the top, but now I wonder if it's the bottom? It would make more sense to me if the floors of each compartment were concave instead of convex. So what say ye, Fossil Forum? Pictures are top, side, bottom, other side
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Another small coral from Michigan/Indiana. It's different from the other ones in that the imprints are really small, and only on that one side. Any idea what kind it is? (3/8)
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I have a small coral chunk here, probably from the Michigan/Indiana area like the others. It looks similar to a tabulate coral, in my extremely limited knowledge. Any thoughts? (2/8)
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This looks similar to a tabulate coral, but the recessions are deeper than the others, and the stone almost has this shiny glint to it when held up to the light. Michigan/Indiana. (4/8)
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Yet another coral from the Michigan/Indiana area. Last one, I swear. Probably. This one is kind of an odd, buckeye shape. It's worn fairly smooth, but I think I see tabulae. (5/8)
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This fossil is also from the Michigan/Indiana border, and appears to be some type of coral. I have no idea what type, or from what time period, etc. Even if I (probably) know what type of fossil it is, is asking for clarification/details okay on this board? Thanks in advance.
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I found this by the side of gravel road so difficult to say formation, but I'll go with upper Pennsylvanian. I think I'm seeing syringopora in the majority of this rock. There's also a small area that looks like aulopora growing on net-like bryozoan. If you can verify any of this, please do. Thanks.
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Im thinking this is coral. Appears to have a honeycomb like design happening. No idea where it originated from. It was given to me with a couple other pieces as a gift. I can do other pics of other angles if needed.
