jessiegumdrop
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Post by jessiegumdrop on Aug 16, 2015 8:14:07 GMT -5
I love to travel. Recently I was in Cincinnati Ohio at this hotel www.sonesta.com/cincinnati/index.cfm?fa=gettinghere.home]Behind this hotel was a little river and I found a ton of stuff in it but I would like to know more about this one the most. The shinny thing is a penny for size reference. Feel free to share a story on how you think it ended up looking like that. imgur.com/a/Mnx5d
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Post by jakesrocks on Aug 16, 2015 9:59:58 GMT -5
You have a very nice little specimen of horn coral. That is the way a nice piece is supposed to look. A few million years back when these corals were alive, the pointed end would have been attached to a rock with a strong muscle sort of attachment. The larger flower looking end would have had tentacles coming out of it to capture small bits of food.
Millions of years ago most of Ohio was an inland sea. Ohio is rich in marine fossils.
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panamark
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by panamark on Aug 16, 2015 10:00:19 GMT -5
It is fossilized horn coral, and a pretty nice one at that.
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jessiegumdrop
having dreams about rocks
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Post by jessiegumdrop on Aug 16, 2015 11:15:03 GMT -5
Very cool! Thank you so much.
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Post by thanatocoenosis on Aug 16, 2015 13:34:15 GMT -5
To further what the others have said, it is a solitary rugose anthozoan of the streptelasmatid family. Grewingkia sp. It is from the Late Ordovician period and it lived about 450 million years ago.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 16, 2015 15:14:13 GMT -5
Nice coral................SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Pat on Aug 16, 2015 15:36:15 GMT -5
To further what the others have said, it is a solitary rugose anthozoan of the streptelasmatid family. Grewingkia sp. It is from the Late Ordovician period and it lived about 450 million years ago. WOW! With an avatar name like yours, I suspect you realllly like fossils. Welcome to RTH.
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inyo
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Post by inyo on Aug 19, 2015 15:52:09 GMT -5
It's a solitary rugose coral (also called a horn coral) of late Ordovician Period geologic age; middle Ordovician horn corals occur in Kentucky. A nice specimen, indeed. See USGS Professional Paper 1066-N by Robert J. Elias (edited by John Pojeta Jr.)--"Middle and Late Ordovician Solitary Rugose Corals of the Cincinnati Arch Region" (Kentucky-Indiana-Ohio) for more information. Lots of photographs of fossils.
What's additionally interesting about your specimen is that in a general exterior aspect, without observing the septa, it more closely resembles what Robert J. Elias describes as the middle Ordovician Lambeophyllum? (the question mark after the genus name is by Elias; it denotes a less than definitive identification), rather than the usual late Ordovician Cincinnati Arch solitary coral Grewingkia one would typically expect to encounter in Paleozoic Era rocks in the Cincinnati, Ohio, district.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 22, 2015 6:01:06 GMT -5
Stayed at a hotel in Kentucky and found the finest fossils in the landscape gravel around the flower beds. Including your fine horn coral.
Welcome to the forum Jessie.
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