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Post by Peruano on Dec 15, 2017 13:14:11 GMT -5
I'm used to seeing red horn coral specimens from Utah, but was totally taken back to find one in my backyard apparently washed into Rio Grande Alluvial gravels. I've seen specimens more solidly fossilized, but not in my backyard, so I'm treating this one as special .
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Post by rmf on Dec 15, 2017 13:21:07 GMT -5
nice! It appears to be agatized.
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Post by fernwood on Dec 15, 2017 23:13:44 GMT -5
Very cool find.
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Post by jawbreaker on Dec 15, 2017 23:44:38 GMT -5
Totally special!Nice color too!!👌
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Post by spiceman on Dec 16, 2017 0:14:48 GMT -5
Some color to boot.
I found some horn coal in my backyard also, along with other fossils. But none of my finds have color like that one. Keep looking. If you dig deep enough and you find water... Well
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 16, 2017 10:10:06 GMT -5
That’s cool. We have lots of horn coral around here, but it’s all just gray limestone.
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Post by adam on Dec 16, 2017 10:44:12 GMT -5
Agatized horn coral, score. Decent size, mostly intact, ja. :-) Kewl.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Dec 16, 2017 21:58:48 GMT -5
There's something about finding an honest to goodness fossil. Someday I hope to find one too!
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Post by fernwood on Dec 17, 2017 9:47:32 GMT -5
There's something about finding an honest to goodness fossil. Someday I hope to find one too! Agree. I have become addicted to finding fossils since moving. Looking outside the box helps a lot in finding them.
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 18, 2017 17:30:35 GMT -5
Super cool! That specimen sure resembles Utah red horn coral, even down to the matrix. Potentially sure shows how much ancient rivers moved stuff around. Trying to remember though, if there was some red to pink horn coral near Lake Valley, NM too...Mel
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Post by Peruano on Dec 19, 2017 8:39:33 GMT -5
To sum up what Mel said, I'll repeat what I just read about the Rio Grande valley near the middle of the state of New Mexico. The valley is filled with thousands of feet in depth with alluvial material deposited in Pliocene and Pleistocene times and pre-dating the river's origin. Who knows what direction the rivers were flowing from then, but Utah is not out of the question.
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