jmfg222
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i know nothing about fossils but guessing these are flowers or at least a plant.
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The details are obscure in the images, but I can see the plates that suggest it is a "sea lily." A sea lily is an animal - a crinoid - not a plant. Nice finds!jmfg222 said:i know nothing about fossils but guessing these are flowers or at least a plant.
Harry Pristis said:Ya' gotta' love 'em! They are so strange. They are so fragile-looking, but here they are - durable remnants of an undersea garden.
Yes, I have a chunk of this matrix. Here's another image of the same surface:TnMountains said:Harry Pristis said:Ya' gotta' love 'em! They are so strange. They are so fragile-looking, but here they are - durable remnants of an undersea garden.
Looks as if the water just drained away and there they lie,ummm lay.
Is that from your collection and a picture you took?
Someone else will have to answer that, 'TnMountains' -- I don't have any experience hunting coal pits.TnMountains said:Are fossils like that found around any of the old coal strip pits ?
TnMountains said:Are fossils like that found around any of the old coal strip pits ?