Rhonda61273 Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 My daughter found this and I think it is some type of fossil, but unsure exactly what it is so any help with identification is appreciated.
rejd Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Hi and welcome to the forum. Sadly your picture is not showing. Try making it smaller and post it again. A fossil hunter needs sharp eyes and a keen search image, a mental template that subconsciously evaluates everything he sees in his search for telltale clues. -Richard E. Leakey http://prehistoricalberta.lefora.com
Rhonda61273 Posted April 4, 2015 Author Posted April 4, 2015 Hopefully it attached and uploaded this time. If I need take a better picture I can take more but I'm trying to get the entire thing in the phone. It looks like a cluster of something but not sure what.
Scylla Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Yes it is a fossil. Now where was it found and how big is it. That will help narrow down what it is. Maybe a coral.
Rhonda61273 Posted April 4, 2015 Author Posted April 4, 2015 Found in Middle Tennessee about 30-40 west of Nashville. It is probably about 7 long and 4 inches tall
abyssunder Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Looks to be a coral " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library
Ludwigia Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 It's definitely a colonial coral. Hopefully someone here can tell you which one it might be. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/
bethk Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Looks like a Favosite coral, one of the more common tabulate corals. Very nice!
Rhonda61273 Posted April 4, 2015 Author Posted April 4, 2015 Thank you! I have had it sitting on my back deck for several years now and decided I needed to find out what it was, other than just an odd rock with holes in it. .
janislav Posted April 5, 2015 Posted April 5, 2015 The individual corals appear to have septae - thin, vertical partitions that extend into the center of each cavity. If that is correct, this would be a rugose coral, not a tabulate coral, and it would not be Favosites. I cannot suggest an alternate identification, but perhaps a coral person will be able to help.
Scylla Posted April 7, 2015 Posted April 7, 2015 Well this is probably Mississippian or Ordovician in age if I read the map correctly. http://www.tn.gov/environment/geology/geologic-map.shtml Some of the images in this post might help: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/29079-is-this-a-colonial-coral/
Diceros Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Janislav is right - the septae suggest a colonial rugose coral, not a tabulate one. Scylla says it might be Mississippian - there is a large Mississippian colonial rugose coral which can take a fair amount of abuse (especially when silicified, as this one seems to be) - Lithostrotionella. You might check on that one.
Herb Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 My guess would be Lithostrontion also., Mississippian in age. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks
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