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Is this a crinoid fossil in some shale rock?

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So my husbands a fisherman and caught this on the sea bed , is it a crinoid? Some form of root fossil!? 
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Definitely not a crinoid. The marks on the rock look like feeding traces.

 

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Sorry should have uploaded pics, definitely looks like a type of root fossil, and it was from the sea bed in Suffolk uk

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Looks more like a meandering type of trace fossil, than plant roots, in my opinion.

Plant roots are usually more linear looking.

 

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Interesting!

Whats the rock type?

Are there some bryozoans on the supposed surface?

Did the boring/feding animals only get down along the preexisting fracture?

Franz Bernhard

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Looks like something produced by a modern borer.  Several kinds of animals will bore into shells or rock.  A trace fossil would likely be filled with hardened sediment, at least in part.

 

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1 hour ago, FranzBernhard said:

Interesting!

Whats the rock type?

Are there some bryozoans on the supposed surface?

Did the boring/feding animals only get down along the preexisting fracture?

Franz Bernhard

Not sure on rock type I have some more images have attached 

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2 hours ago, FranzBernhard said:

Interesting!

Whats the rock type?

Are there some bryozoans on the supposed surface?

Did the boring/feding animals only get down along the preexisting fracture?

Franz Bernhard

The last photo looks clearly bryozoan to me.

 

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Thanks for the additional pics!

Sorry, no idea what it could really be.

Just saying, that it seems, that a rock got drilled along a fracture and that the surface was colonized by bryozoa.

Franz Bernhard

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3 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

Looks like something produced by a modern borer.  Several kinds of animals will bore into shells or rock.  A trace fossil would likely be filled with hardened sediment, at least in part.

 

Don

I agree.

 

 

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I also agree, modern boring.

 

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