Found by my 4 year old

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Hello all. My daughter is very keen on fossils (via a love of dinosaurs!) and quite by chance found this amongst our driveway stones this morning… Is it a fossil? If so, does anyone have any idea what it might be? She would love to know. We’re in Wiltshire in the UK but the stones could have come from anywhere - they’re loose and were probably bought as a bulk load when the former owners redid our drive. Many thanks for any info!

[FranzBernhard]

Welcome to TFF from Austria!

 

How sweet, your little daughter indeed has found her first fossil. Its part of a paleozoic rugose coral.

Other members will give you more infos about them.

Franz Bernhard

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Oh I forgot the scale!!

 

 

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5 minutes ago, FranzBernhard said:

Welcome to TFF from Austria!

 

How sweet, your little daughter indeed has found her first fossil. Its part of a paleozoic rugose coral.

Other members will give you more infos about them.

Franz Bernhard

Thank you! Oh she’ll be so excited. So paleozoic - before the dinosaurs??

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yum, I do miss Marmite.

 

I disagree with my friend Franz, this being Wiltshire, and looking at the rock and type of coral, I think this is a Middle Jurassic Scleractinian coral.

So the time of the dinosaurs.

Tarquin? @TqB

 

[Fossildude19]

Hard to say for sure, without any real provenance on WHERE the stone actually came from. But I defer to my more knowledgeable colleagues.

 

[TqB]

I agree with @Tidgy's Dad that it's a M.Jurassic scleractinian along the lines of Chomatoseris. They crop up quite often in gravels in the more southern parts of England.

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Thank you so much! Daughter is extremely proud of her find - and learning to say ‘Middle Jurassic scleractinian coral’… Really appreciate all your input.