tqb
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Post by tqb on Aug 22, 2013 4:21:27 GMT -5
Reposted here from the ID section which didn't have the attachment box... I haven't posted anything here for a while because the Brigantian shale that produces most of my mysteries hasn't been well exposed. A recent flood revealed this nodule just above the top of the underlying limestone, below a layer packed with bryozoans and shelly bits. Haven't seen one of these before, the preservation seems to be fragile calcite. Favouring sponge at the moment, maybe Haplistion? Thanks for looking, all comments welcomed! Attachments:
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Post by tqb on Aug 22, 2013 4:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by tqb on Aug 22, 2013 4:23:38 GMT -5
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Post by tqb on Aug 22, 2013 4:24:47 GMT -5
pic 4 canals are up to 1.5mm diam Attachments:
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Aug 24, 2013 2:23:08 GMT -5
Tarquin.... Very nice find... Its great to see these unusual finds.... I'm sure you have come to the right place for help but it appears nobodys in at the moment...
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Post by tqb on Aug 24, 2013 9:57:50 GMT -5
Steve - thanks, hope we can get it to at least phylum level! I'll go and check for more soon, this was yet another "last find of the day"...
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Aug 26, 2013 20:18:28 GMT -5
Interesting find!
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Sept 1, 2013 4:33:30 GMT -5
Is everyone using facebook these days... including Joe ;D
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Post by reighan on Sept 17, 2013 17:45:08 GMT -5
Thinking of becoming a convert, Steve? :-) Very interesting, Tarquin, but I don't know either.
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Post by ammocarbsteve on Sept 19, 2013 14:56:07 GMT -5
errrrrm... No... Not even if they paid me ;D
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Post by reighan on Sept 19, 2013 16:11:22 GMT -5
Didn't think so. LOL
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Post by tqb on Oct 13, 2013 5:37:12 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it's a sponge now but, having dipped my toe into sponge literature (the old Treatise and a few papers), I'm realising the awful complexity of sponge ID...
I've got quite a few now from our local Carboniferous (mostly Namurian) and they don't seem to have received any attention.
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Post by reighan on Oct 13, 2013 5:43:36 GMT -5
I hope Joe looks in soon. Sponges are (one of) his thing(s). I find mostly Carboniferous marine invertebrate stuff on my beach (from an eroding morraine) but haven't seen anything like that.
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Post by tqb on Oct 13, 2013 10:27:49 GMT -5
Hi Reighan - do you find many corals? - I have a lot of Yorkshire coast erratics as well as localised Northern England stuff - a huge variety but I'm still after a few that a couple of trips to North Wales might provide!
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Post by reighan on Oct 13, 2013 11:15:58 GMT -5
Yes, a lot of corals. They are mostly lithostrotion or lithostrotion-like (I couldn't find books on corals) and mostly in black limestone but there are quite a few 'oddballs'. Which ones are you looking for? (Check out the lengthy exchange under 'introductions' for a sampling of what's here.)
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