Wicked old coral

[Zirky]

One of my coworkers found this in a bag of road salt that was mined in Cleveland Ohio where there was an ocean 400 million years ago. Can anyone identify it?

 

[ChrisV]

Extra credit if you come up with a clever trade name that would be embarrassing to Google on your work computer!

 

[highfive52]

One of my coworkers found this in a bag of road salt that was mined in Cleveland Ohio where there was an ocean 400 million years ago. Can anyone identify it?View attachment 171130

Gonipora

 

[Zirky]

Kinda looks it don’t it. Hard to imagine

 

[Cpage101]

maybe a cephastra (Sp?)

 

[chadfish]

No expert but looks like a colonial rugose coral Prismatophyllum. See https://kgs.uky.edu/kgsweb/olops/pub/kgs/KGSXISP19reduce.pdf

pdf page 22, (numbered as page 16 in the text)

edit: fixed copy pasta mistake

 

[Chris L]

Pipe organ maybe