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Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« on: June 30, 2016, 07:59:13 AM »

My Aunt asked me to identify this for her.  I'm hoping she can grab me some better pictures than what she sent me over email that I have below.  My Father and her were out hounding a beach together in the Finger Lakes region of NY state and this is what she found.  I'm leaning towards some old barnacle or perhaps a brachiopod or cephalopod.  However perhaps someone else has an idea.  Both pictures are of opposite sides of the same fossil.
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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2016, 08:23:10 AM »

From the second pic, it's some sort of fossil coral. Better pics might help id the type.
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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2016, 12:03:59 PM »

From the second pic, it's some sort of fossil coral. Better pics might help id the type.

Yeah I'm hoping she sends me better pictures.  I wrote her to tell her they were blurry.

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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2016, 06:17:48 PM »

Ok she sent me this new picture, which still isn't great, but it does show more detail.

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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2016, 06:41:22 PM »

Still say it's coral, with a scallop shell attached to the bottom. In the second pic from the top, you can see the coral cells.

The scallop most likely attached itself to a small dead coral colony, and itself was fossilized along with the coral.
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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2016, 08:23:40 PM »

It does look really neat.
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Re: Aunt's Fossil. Need ID.
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2017, 08:56:10 AM »

Don is right,this is a coral.....Sweet!!!!!
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