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Nick Elligett posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoNick Elligett has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Nick Elligett posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
Nick Elligett has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Sponge?
It looks like a Conularid fossil
I’ve never heard of a conularid. It’s hard to tell as it’s been flattened and broken at the end, but the area it was found was a coral reef during the Silurian so it would make sense I suppose.
Look up images of Conularia. They are related to corals. I found something similar in Devonian limestone in NY.
Looking at images of various Conulariid fossils, I don’t think this is one. The seams that separate each segment are straight where the conulariid’s follow a wave-like pattern and the segments are thinner and more numerous. The only other suggestion I’ve seen for this besides Crinoid fragment, is the siphuncle of an Orthocone cephalopod. Thoughts?
crinoid
or horn coral
The Oakdale and Cheesemans Creek Formation are the major geological units surrounding Borenore. They both date back to the Ordovician period.
That’s true but this photo was taken at the Borenore Karst Conservation Reserve which is in the Mumbil Group undifferentiated sediments dated Wenlock – Lochkovian from my understanding.