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Horn coral possibly

Greetings @keith-peavy ! This does look like the top of a horn coral. I am surprised you found it considering so much of the lithology around Blommenholm is metamorphic and igneous strata. There are some minor sedimentary members from the Cambrian and Carboniferous, so by rare chance this is perhaps where this erodes out of and flowed downstream.

Thank you both for responding! My 6 year old son found this while playing around a riverbed. @matthew-gramling I will do some homework to decipher your response, but thank you very much for putting me on the right path.

@matthew-gramling we have actually found several fossils in and around this particular riverbed. I will put up more pictures of them. Perhaps you could shed some slight on a few others?

Matthew said that the types of rocks in the area this was found in is not the kind fossils are found in. However, there are a few rocks nearby the area that could contain fossils, so there is a possibility that your fossil formed nearby the riverbed then rolled down to where you found it.

@a-trilobite Thank you for the insight. Yes, I am not educated at all in this remarkable field, but we and others have found several fossils in this area. There is quite a reputation in our immediate area for finding these kinds of fossils. In fact, we are finding these on our family walks while just casually looking around. I will put up some more pictures of some of the others that we have found soon.

it rather looks like some sort of Ediacaran fauna too.

@leonardo-miranda the odds of this being ediacaran are so low that if it is I will literally eat my pants.

@a-trilobite how could one find out?

You can find the age of the rock by typing in where you found it into the ROCKD app

@a-trilobite thank you for the feedback. I have downloaded the app. I’ll see what I can figure out.

@a-trilobite likewise. however, l can’t shake away the vague but tantalising resemblance that this has to some Aspidella and Charniodiscus specimens I’ve seen. for now, I’ll just state that Anthozoan is another possible identity for this.

Fossilized sea urchin

I don’t see a strong resemblance to a sea urchin

Have updated with some more angles and a ruler for scale.