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Let's Rock => Fossils => Topic started by: Enchantra on June 30, 2016, 07:59:13 AM
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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.
Thanks! :thumbsup:
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From the second pic, it's some sort of fossil coral. Better pics might help id the type.
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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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Ok she sent me this new picture, which still isn't great, but it does show more detail.
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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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It does look really neat.
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Don is right,this is a coral.....Sweet!!!!!