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found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49439

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I think it could be a fossil of a larva nest of some sort if anyone has seen something like this let me know. I found it at one of my sites that I find native artifacts at in Wyoming County ,PA.
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49446

cool huhhh
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49457

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Cool, yes... but it's a piece of fossilised tabulate coral. End-on (as in the first two pics) if you can see small closley-packed hexagonal structures that's always a good indicator for coral.
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49459

Why would a fossil like this be all the way up here in Wyoming County PA?
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49460

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Red Eye Coral and Black Eye Coral are two of the more unusual types of Coral Fossil found in present day markets. Both come from sea floors around South East Asia
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49461

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they dont look the same?
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49462

ok the one is close but they dont have any that look anything like the one I found anywhere......... find me one just like the one I found someone same color.....
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49464

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PaArtifactHunter wrote:
Why would a fossil like this be all the way up here in Wyoming County PA?

Well, it’s sufficiently water polished that you can’t assume it originated in the immediate vicinity of where you found it, but Pennsylvania has numerous suitable marine deposits were you will find fossil corals. In Wyoming County there are Pennsylvanian marine beds at Occana and middle Devonian marine deposits at Laceyville to name just two.

There are hundreds of different tabulate corals. They fossilise in different ways. Yours looks agatised or possibly calcited. That kind of preservation comes in every colour and pattern you can think of. I have no intention of trawling through my reference library to find you an exact match! If you want to believe it's something other than tabulate coral, be my guest but I won't respond any further on this thread.
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Re: found this rock and never seen its type before ? 1 year 1 month ago #49467

Oh no I do believe you it is indeed I know they have been finding megladon sharks teeth up there in lacyville area in the cliffs I just never seen such a pretty rock and did not know I have been looking on the net since you said it was a tabulate fossile and indeed it is I found many like it on there but of different colors how cool Thanks, I myself have 2 of those megladon teeth but mine are from keelersburg PA just south of lacyville and the State museume said that my great grandfather couldnt of found them there I told them hey thats where he said he found them and his artifacts and I hunt my great grandfathers land that he found them on today and the artifacts are amazing there also but I like my honey hole up a ways there by lactville its underpicked lol
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