I.D. Please

John_Rambo

Hello everyone. I photographed these on a beach in the North West, I presume it's a fossil of some sort, a fish maybe? Anyone know what it is or how old it is? There are two on the one rock.

Guyett

where exactly did you find it? the bottom picture looks lie some sort of shell, possibly a bivalve. They are kind of difficult to identify but if I know where they were found it could be easier to work out

John_Rambo

Thanks a million for the reply Guyett.

It's a fairly secret surf spot, I'll pm you the place if you want, it's between Sligo and Donegal.

The leash that attaches my ankle to my surf board broke and it ended getting washed up on the rocks. There were loads of these rocks with fossils around, that's why I thought they were fish, ie; A shoal of fish got caught in mud, over time and epochs we have these! (I'm fairly clueless when it come's to this sort of thing).

The one in the first photograph is about six inches long.

Mickeroo

Oh go on, tell us where it is, nobody around here but us palaeontology enthusiasts :P

The top one almost looks like a fin alright. Limestone is a goldmine for these kinds of fossils, see a lot of them along the clare coast too.

John_Rambo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Oh go on, tell us where it is, nobody around here but us palaeontology enthusiasts :P

The top one almost looks like a fin alright. Limestone is a goldmine for these kinds of fossils, see a lot of them along the clare coast too.

You are a surfer, so you understand!!

Edit.

I will gladly pm anyone interested tomorrow exact details with directions and a bearing of where exactly this is. Some of the rocks were stuck in the sand, others were small enough to pick up.

Thanks for the reply.

Guyett

Pm me the location, to be honest I dont think it is a fish.

Wibbs

Looks like a rugose solitary coral from the lower Carboniferous. Caninia if I was to throw a name at it Here's what a section of one looks like. Found loads of them when I was kid on holidays around sligo. In a town called Easky there's a whole natural pavement by the beach covered in them.

Guyett

yeah I'd agree with that, I was initially thinking it could have a similar structure to some sort of plant or tree debris but as the fossil is white it probably couldnt be as it doesnt have that black colour that tree fossils tend to have.

Capt'n Midnight

you should see some round tube type structures with bright white spots ?

reminded me of the kelp roots

lots of places with those sort of fossils in that part of the world

John_Rambo

Thanks a million everyone. Great info there, much appreciated.