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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoHi, @gail-tennant – what are you thinking this might be? It looks like there is some patterns but I can’t tell if that is weathering patterns or biological patterns. Talk to you soon, Jen
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Fossil or Rock II? in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 2 months ago
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Victor Perez replied to the topic Fossil or Rock? in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago6 years, 2 months agoHi @gail-tennant! Sorry it took us a while to get back to you. Unfortunately, I think it’s a rock rather than a fossil.
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Jack Kallmeyer posted a new activity comment 6 years, 4 months ago
6 years, 4 months ago6 years, 4 months ago@gail-tennant This is a coral but not a chain coral, The corallites in your specimen are all bunched together. In a chain coral the corallites are linked on the edges and look like a chain – hence the name. I would hesitate to place an age on this since it appears to have been transported by water or glaciers depending on your location.
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I agree with @jkallmeyer. The specimen is really worn and over worked – but that makes it really interesting in other respects.
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic What is it? in the forum What Is It? 6 years, 4 months ago
6 years, 4 months ago6 years, 4 months ago@gail-tennant, @jim-chandler I’d say it is definitely bone and I don’t see any matrix on it. You need to have someone put eyes on the specimen before you start removing anything that you think is matrix as it may be part of the fossil.
The specimen looks quite porous. Is it fairly light in weight or really heavy like a rock of the same s…[Read more]