Guguita2104 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 A friend mine gave me this coral...I don' know the exactly location where did she found/bought (?) it.For that, I'm not so certainly if it's really a fossil. Can someone clarify me?Can you give me a taxonomic classification? Thanks, Guguita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 To me, it looks more like an infilled burrow. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Thanks Auspex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unique~Antiques Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I have Silurian branch coral if you are after some 426 million year old found by us PASSION FOR MINERALS & FOSSILS OR ANYTHING OLD ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I do not believe it is a coral "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I have Silurian branch coral if you are after some 426 million year old found by us Branch coral from the Silurian ? Let's have a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Thanks for the info...I talked with my friend and she said that it cames from Mexico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I think it may be modern coral covered with calcareous algae. The red lumps are a common type of foraminifera found in tropical waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I think it may be modern coral covered with calcareous algae. The red lumps are a common type of foraminifera found in tropical waters. Ding ding ding; I think we have a winner. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Uau! Awesome! The coraline algae are so widespread but it's rare we talk about them in schools or oher type of specialized sites...They're ecology is almost unknow for the scientists. Thanks, Guguita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Indeed, Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA) is not often talked about among scientists. Even many coral scientists talk more of scleractinian (reef-building) corals and don't consider much that CCA is one of the best substrates for coral larvae to settle upon and metamorphose into tiny coral recruits that may one day grow into a sizable coral. CCA is often a very major component of (mostly shallow) reef systems that (in addition to functioning as settling habitat) acts to cement sediments together. In fact one of its common names is "reef cement". Due to its Pepto-Bismol like pink color it is often known by non-scientists by the name "pink bottom". I tend to giggle whenever I hear that term used--sophomoric, yes--but it tickles me pink. I'm traveling and on my laptop computer at the moment so I don't have access to my library of CCA images so this is the best I can do by way of an example at the moment: Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 On a closer view of the specimen, I think we have to deal with Homotrema rubrum (Lamarck), a common encrusting foraminifera; in our case encrusting a branching coral. reference: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/caribbean/pdf/Pilarczyk&Reinhardt_NatHazards_acc_H_Rubum_Anegada_overwash.pdf " 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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