coral? Payson AZ

[kmaxx]

Hi!

Someone directed me to this forum for a possibility of ID'ing these pieces.

I collected these loose on the ground the day after a very heavy rain and hail storm, near a wash bed just north of the Whispering Pines area outside Payson, AZ. Someone suggested they might be fossil coral. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

[kmaxx]

the pics did not load in order but there are 3 pieces total, two that resemble coral (one that says front/back and three pics of the other one) and one that is a shell.)

[DPS Ammonite]

They are both from the Permian Kaibab Limestone: Peniculauris bassi brachiopod and an Actinocoelia maeandrina sponge.

 

Consider joining the Southwest Paleontology Society in Mesa.

 

http://geology.byu.edu/home/sites/default/files/actinocoelia-maeandrina-finks-from-the-kaibab-limestone-of-northern-arizona-leland-r.-griffin.pdf

 

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/collections-database/brachiopods/peniculauris-bassi-r1962/

 

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/collections-database/sponges/actinocoelia-maeandrina-r1897/

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by DPS Ammonite

[kmaxx]

thank you so much! appreciate it!