Highlands Glacial Till Site 1 (50x update)

[Odd Rocks]

Found in glacial till on top of Ohio Valley knobs in southern Indiana.

Edited July 18, 2024 by Odd Rocks
Update

[Rockwood]

Looks like pyrite concretion. 

[Odd Rocks]

You can’t see the detail on the mouth, or the rounded projections on the end?  I’ll keep running it through the sonic cleaner and get better close-up detail.

[Rockwood]

Well, I guess I can see what you're suggesting here. It's very faint though. 

[Mark Kmiecik]

It doesn't really jump out at you. I'm not seeing it.

[Ludwigia]

So what do you think it is? You mentioned 3 different types of fossils in the tags, but I don't really recognize any of them here clearly.

[ynot]

 

i see a non-fossil rock with some iron oxides in and on it.

[Odd Rocks]

I think it’s a paracrinoid, or maybe tabulate coral.  I’ll get more of that red crust off it and repost, maybe take some pics with the microscope.

[trilobites_are_awesome]

On 7/16/2024 at 4:43 PM, Odd Rocks said:

I think it’s a paracrinoid, or maybe tabulate coral.  I’ll get more of that red crust off it and repost, maybe take some pics with the microscope.

this is just a rock not a paracrinoid or a tabulate coral.

[westcoast]

There is something in there, in the third from last image, that looks somewhat like a syringopora-type coral