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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month ago@corina-fernandes@samantha-ocon I think it could be a sponge too especially since I don’t see septa. Here are some photos of some Carboniferous sponges from Woosters https://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2015/06/05/woosters-fossil-of-the-week-a-chaetetid-demosponge-from-the-upper-carboniferous-of-southern-nevada/
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month agoHi, @corina-fernandes – this is certainly a weird fossil. I’m not sure it’s an urchin but it’s tricky because the preservation is so weird!!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month ago@Mackenzie-Smith, @Corina-Fernandes, Sponge?
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month ago@samantha-ocon and @corina-fernandes I don’t know what it is but I do see some shelly parts on one of those columns. It could be some sort of burrowing bivalve?
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi all- @mackenzie-smith@samantha-ocon@corina-fernandes – MacKenzie had excellent information. It can’t be a tabulate coral, it could be scleractinian but we should expect to see septae (which radiate into the open spaces like wagon wheels). Which we don’t see here. I don’t think it’s a bryozoan so I agree with MacKenzie’s demosponge idea. There…[Read more]
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months ago@samantha-ocon is correct, there are no Favosites in the Mesozoic. I was looking at a geological map of the area and there is a Paleozoic Plutonic Complex nearby. Plutonic implies that it is igneous in nature (so no fossils) but where it is a “complex” I don’t know if there might be a sedimentary layer. Favosites are a tabulate coral meaning that…[Read more]
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoHi, @corina-fernandes! Favosites went extinct during the Permian-Triassic transition, so the time period on this is wrong (or perhaps the ID is wrong). Unfortunately, I’m not too great with coral IDs, so I’m going to tag in @JBauer and @Mackenzie-Smith.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
4 years, 2 months ago4 years, 2 months agoVery cool, @Corina-Fernandes! Do you know what geological formation this is from? Also, I think the order is Scleractinia.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi, @Corina-Fernandes! Are you interested in improving the quality of this specimen for the eMuseum? First thing to do would be to update the geochronology and lithostratigraphy; for example, do you know what geological formation you found this in?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi, @Corina-Fernandes! Are you interested in improving the quality of this specimen for the eMuseum? First thing to do would be to update the geochronology and lithostratigraphy; for example, do you know what geological formation you found this in?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi @corina-fernandes! To be added to the eMuseum, photos must only include one individual specimen; however, this is still a super cool find and you can definitely add each individual to our Museum 🙂