#favosites

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An new type of coral fossils for me. 🪸

Their patterns is all over the entire surface visible with tiny nubs, rough to feel.

Here the new favosite colonial coral found yesterday in the gravel. It’s quite light in weight and it’s light bleached color.

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Favosite (Honeycomb Coral) -- Lake Michigan

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“That’s no moon.” 

That’s Favosites, a tabulate coral.

Got this honeycomb coral from Blåhäll, Gotland, Sweden. It’s in two pieces, each one about 13 cm in diameter.

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Both flat sides of the recently pebble coral.

The petrified honeycomb pattern are visible. Should I adding the moisture wet for contrast?

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Found Coral fossils 2.

Part two of showing you the limestone gravel beds finds from this rainy day today.

Not showing here, is an grey limestone pebble with an half horn coral like an branching, and an smaller inclusion.

Found some fragmented Favosites, with an Rugosa coral with an Echinocorys echinoids steinkern.

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Found some Corals 1

Part one of the todays finds of limestone fossils. Was stumbling searching on gravel beds on an parking lot of an concurrent of IKEA.

Found an small chert core of an Echinocorys, and some nice patterned favosites coral 🪸 fragments. Sadly no chain corals seen. 😑

Really tiny chambers to be seen. 👀

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The largest chunk of agatized coral now found by me. It was in the rocky tracks, I was walking on this warm sunny day back, it was definitely not been there recently like April last time. 🤔

Yesterday I was partial walking around the sand beds from the construction railroad tracks, found this limestone of an coral fossil. 🛤️🪸

The entire surface is really smoothly, covered by the tiny chambers, are almost intact but weathered down, from moving and contact of falling, machines etc. But no fissures or broken apart.

Sadly to say, I own no polishing or rock cutting machine, tool, nor drexll, to cut open to see the entire inner struckture of the coral or 😭mineralization.

I’m really happy but also angry sad to think about. Perhaps with some sandpaper to try to polishing an spot.

And I have also no person to think who could have to ask, nor idea of local place. I’m so curious what could been hidden in this large chunk.

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Really smooth surface, skin tone with better sun light, a lot honeycomb patterns of the gone polyps are still good visible, wet good zoomed, under. 🔍 With an lone horn coral fragment too.

In comparison to the other nice pebble of an coral Favosite, 🪸 found last month on different spots, looking alike in it’s strukturell patterns, sizes mineral color, almost intact. Below 👇