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Help ID marine fossil? Sponge?


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Hello again Fossil friends! I have another fossil I need help with.  Found with other shell and coral fossils in a river shore in north eastern Kansas, most likely Pennsylvanian. It looks to be maybe a sponge with exterior and interior... structure? Couldn't figure this one out. Maybe someone with more knowledge can ID it for sure.

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Not really seeing anything indicating this is a sponge. (Granted, not my strong point.) 

Wait for some other opinions, though.

 

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5 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Not really seeing anything indicating this is a sponge. (Granted, not my strong point.) 

Wait for some other opinions, though.

 

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No idea what it is, closest I could think of from looking at other fossils is possibly a sponge. But I'm def no expert either. Maybe not even a fossil and just a really really funky geology. :look:

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I don't think it's a sponge either. 

Bits of it look a little like the internal structure of a brachiopod, cardinal process, crura, crural processes, maybe some sort of brachidia. 

But there seems to be too much of it, and some pieces don't seem to fit.

Then again, I have Brachiopod Pareidolia. :headscratch:

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I'll echo the not sponge comment. I don't really have a good idea on what it is but I'd guess it's geologic. That could be my anti-pareidolia though.

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I think it's a Chambersaurus Rex skull... More seriously - the anti-pareidolia is switched on in me, I second Thomas.

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