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Please forgive what is no doubt a very naive question, but I've just found these 2 pebbles on a beach on the Isle of Man, and knowing nothing at all about fossils I'm wondering what they are.

 

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Kane Regular Member

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Welcome to the forum. :) 

 

Not a naive question at all. What you appear to have here is a fairly water-worn fossil coral colony. If you look at your second picture at the longest "tube" you can see a cross section of it (the horizontal lines). So, it won't be worms... soft-bodies creatures rarely preserve except under very exceptional conditions.

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Nice specimen! Welcome to the forum.

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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They're Lower Carboniferous colonial corals. The first one appears to be Siphonodendron junceum and the second is probably another species of either Siphonodendron or Diphyphyllum.

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agreed,Unmistakable sections,those

And a hearty welcome from me.

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