snuffy
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Post by snuffy on May 12, 2013 10:20:11 GMT -5
I was looking through rocks that I had taken out of coarse in the tumblers.This is one I haven't run across before.  This occurs over 3 sides of this rock    Anyway,thought it was kinda cool!! snuffy |
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Post by jakesrocks on May 12, 2013 10:38:22 GMT -5
Those 6 sided ends make me think it's some sort of Hexagonaria type coral. Neat piece.
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Post by Jugglerguy on May 12, 2013 12:52:38 GMT -5
Looks sort of like favosites.
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munchie
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Post by munchie on May 12, 2013 16:20:55 GMT -5
Not sure what it is but it looks kind of cool
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 13, 2013 19:48:30 GMT -5
It is coral.It is twisted so the polyps are exposed as dots and the tubes leading up to the polyps are worn from the side creating the parallel lines.Like the third pic looking from the right side facing left into the rock you would see polyps at the end of those tubes
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Post by Sabre52 on May 13, 2013 22:29:32 GMT -5
Hmm, I'm seeing a little crinoid trash in the piece and I was first thinking it's maybe a squashed crinoid head as they are often made up of those irregular little plates but as James said I can't think of anything that would have those stalk like pieces except coral in longitudinal section so I'd also go with coral with the addition of crinoid bits in the rock too. Very cool fossil. I love that kind of stuff, especially if it's agatized....Mel
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on May 13, 2013 22:37:32 GMT -5
James,I'm wondering if that piece came out of the coral I got from you. I still have some of your harda&& coral rolling in coarse!  snuffy |
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Post by helens on May 14, 2013 5:22:25 GMT -5
It's a baby dragon fossil!!!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 14, 2013 6:51:35 GMT -5
Not from me Snuffy. That is a bit of a death plate -smorgasborg like Mel sees crinoid.I think bryozoans too.I have never found any coral in a matrix like limestone or chert or in a death plate in the silicified coral zone.It is normally in clay or clay concreted sand or washed out loose,often in reefs forming shoals in the rivers.Clay and coral vein 1-3 feet thick laying on hard white limestone.With 10-30 feet of sand sitting on it.Under a quarter of Florida.Tiny percentage exposed by deep excavations or rivers.That is a real interesting fossil mass.Thanx for posting it. I am sorry for the hardness.I built special tumblers that fly.The slow moving factory ones will never get the job done.Coarse grit bill is high.The coral shatters it to muck in short order.Cabbers don't like it cause it eats their diamomd wheels LOL. 30 pound barrels after 2 months at fast 1 turn per second rotation-coral got the last laugh  |
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