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is this some kind of stromatolite or other fossil?

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I am afraid to wash or try to clean it. Doesn’t look like other stromatolites I have found in Western Pa. 

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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It is very poorly preserved, but it could be a bryozoan.

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Doesn't look like a stromatolite to me.

Not sure what it is 

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Mark Kmiecik Regular Member

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Could be fragments of a Sphenophyllum sp.

 

 

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Rockwood Regular Member

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I don't see any clear indication that it's more than an iron rich concretion. 

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I tried to clean it up a bit and I do see marine fossil looking patterns. It looks a bit like a concretion but also like a fossilized colony with stems poking out or something burrowing in. How could it be both?

 

 

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