Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 5, 2016 9:35:17 GMT -5
A couple of us guys,got a call from a good friend of ours,he was quitting the rock hounding,selling everything! We headed up to Vancouver,WA and buy all that he had left..I got a bucket or two of thundereggs and a nice 35 pound piece of rough Coral.. He didn't know anything about the coral,he remembers buying it in Wis. at a yard sale... Now I need to find the origin of this fossil... I think I might just get it faced...   |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 5, 2016 9:38:34 GMT -5
Sorry for the blah photo,it was taken with my cell phone...will get better photos later on...
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Post by Peruano on Jun 6, 2016 12:32:06 GMT -5
Its coral, but it may not be a fossil. It looks like it could just be a dead (bleached) corral head. Probably pretty soft and not likely to take a polish if it is a recent specimen. Just guessing. Tom
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 6, 2016 12:34:38 GMT -5
Its coral, but it may not be a fossil. It looks like it could just be a dead (bleached) corral head. Probably pretty soft and not likely to take a polish if it is a recent specimen. Just guessing. Tom On the "Mohs" scale the hardness is an 8-or above.....I am going to dress it and see what becomes of it,from the interior....... |
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 6, 2016 12:38:15 GMT -5
I'm still going for "fossil"..... After cutting it,the answers will tell us everything... I do appreciative your input too.....Thumbs up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil |
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Post by snowmom on Jun 12, 2016 17:45:13 GMT -5
it looks like hexagonaria, a colonial rugose coral, the same stuff as petoskey stone but yours seems to have less infilling, a nice specimen. comes from Devonian era around here, in Ohio, Kentucky, and a few places farther west... also probably many other places. Compare to Jugglerguy or Drummond Island Rocks examples. I had a hard time figuring out the scale of that piece and finally decided the boards it was sitting on were standard lumber. Seems to be a complete head, they are not rare but that is rather a nice one.  |
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