Quality4go Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Found in a river in north eastern Illinois. Im assuming some type of coral? But it also seems like other things are mixed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 i personally can't help with this id, but wanted to mention that sometimes a size reference can be a big help, so if you'll put a ruler or a quarter or something next to the fossil when you take pictures, occasionally it might help with the id. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 The pictures aren't real clear, but it looks like flint nodules to me. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 i personally can't help with this id, but wanted to mention that sometimes a size reference can be a big help, so if you'll put a ruler or a quarter or something next to the fossil when you take pictures, occasionally it might help with the id. My bold That will not help members across the pond though. Not everyone knows the size of a quarter, or a 'something'. A ruler, or written size, is best. KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality4go Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 The dimensions are roughly 5x5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkfoam Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Quality4go, Well, it appears to me that the specimen is kind of beat up. IMO it could be a coral or it could be a branching type of Bryozoa. If it is a coral it is probably a tabulate Auloporid type. Even when I magnified the photo 200% I could not differentiate between a bryozoan and a cnidarian. If you have a copy or access toa copy of Moore, Lalicker and Fischer's, "Invertebrate Fossils", see page 130, fig. 4-19 (1a, for an example of an Aulopora tabulate coral. JKFoam The Eocene is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Trepostomate bryozoan. I think that I also saw a strophonemid in the first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serack Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Honestly, this sounds like a brilliant ID made by one who is quite sage, and that I respect a lot. Especially with the context of the the other ID's I have seen Solius make. However, I have absolutely no idea what it means. Complete jiberish to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Honestly, this sounds like a brilliant ID made by one who is quite sage, and that I respect a lot. Especially with the context of the the other ID's I have seen Solius make. However, I have absolutely no idea what it means. Complete jiberish to me. Do an Internet search for "Trepostomate bryozoan definition" and see what you get. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawooten Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I must agree it looks like branching type of Bryozoa. The best days are spent collecting fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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