Jobilly Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Found this while fossil hunting in Lyme Regis U.K. I’m pretty new to this and stumped so if anyone can help me figure out what it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Welcome to the Forum. This looks like a chert or flint nodule to me. That may be the remains of a sponge fossil, but I can't tell a dish sponge from a glass sponge. Maybe @TqB or @FossilDAWG will weigh in here. Welcome again. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "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...
ynot Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Welcome to TFF! It looks like a chert nodule with matrix attached. There also appears to be a fossil sponge in the chert. Maybe @JohnBrewer can help. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobilly Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Hi, thank you, yes it was an oval shaped flint nodule but hollow when split, the structure inside is runs further through but i didn’t want to damage it so left it at that, it’s nice to have some idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobilly Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 A bit of a closer view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The inside of the flint nodule is not clearly visible on your pictures, but I'm inclined to believe that the tubular shaped little "things" might be sponge spicules or sponge root tufts. Here is an example: pictures from here - and another example from S. Chang et al. 2016. Sponge spicules from the lower Cambrian in the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The earliest biomineralizing sponge record. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2 " 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...
Jobilly Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Thanks, I’ll try to get a better picture in daylight tomorrow but I think that’s probably it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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