New Members BelemnitesGalore Posted May 24 New Members Share Posted May 24 Hello there, I'm a first time poster so I apologise if I've missed anything off or done anything incorrectly, I tried to do my best with pictures. All of the attached photos are of beach finds found between chapel point and skegness, lincolnshire in the UK, so I can't give any detail on what formations they came from sadly, although we get a lot of wash down from the Yorkshire coast and the carboniferous formation in Northumberland. I've hazarded a guess at a couple of them myself, but would really appreciate someone else correcting me or confirming my thoughts. Again, I apologise if anything isn't up to spec. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Welcome to the Forum. Not seeing anything here that I would classify as crinoid. Lots of shell bits and cross sections. One coral, and the last item looks like some sort of metamorphic rock , maybe something like porphyry? 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members BelemnitesGalore Posted May 25 Author New Members Share Posted May 25 (edited) Thanks so much for reply, and for telling me about the porphyry, it was driving me mad! Now you've said it, i see what you mean about the shells, i think i mistook one for a squashed crinoid stem. I have another couple of pics for the 2 i was umming and ahhing about wether they were coral or not. This is just after i cleaned them. Could you let me know which one you identified? (These pics are unfortunately from my kitchen earlier in the day) Edited May 25 by BelemnitesGalore Missed a bit of my thank you message off cos i'm a silly sausage, and my spelling was pants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cortinarius Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 P 13 hours ago, BelemnitesGalore said: I’m a rookie so of course defer to more knowledgable members… But these look exactly like the Carboniferous age rocks I collect hp here in Scotland (Fife), which are full of siphonodendron, rugose coral colonies. I sometimes find individual larger lone horn corals mixed in too, like in the top top photo in your reply. We get pebbles full of shell hash exactly like yours too. The phenocrysts in porphyries are really easy to get caught out by. We have fossil collecting locations up here in Fife, East Lothian and on the Isle of Skye where igneous rocks are mingled in too, and it takes a while to get used not not getting tricked by them when scanning the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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