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Pseudo fossil or Trace/burrow fossil?
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Here goes... I picked these up within the last few weeks in the seasonal creek on my property in Elgin, TX. I’ve been looking at a ton of images and reading a lot of information on Google but look forward to your expertise and responses here in the forum. I tried to take decent pictures. pictures of possibly mold and cast.
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Pseudo fossil or carbon?
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When walking along titlow beach in WA (Eocene time period) and we find coal buried in the side of a cliff. Does this mean there was a plant there? bacteria? Tree bark? How did this get here? Also when walking along a Covington river far from the ocean in WA, we find a perfect stripe of coal on the side of a sedimentary rock wall. We can dig it out and it goes back very far. Does this mean that it was the bottom of a lake, ocean or forest where plenty of plants died and were covered in sediment? How did this coal even get here. Does this mean there might be fossils nearby?
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In the small country of Belgium there is a city called Ostend, which lies near the North Sea and thus has a harbour. To boost economy and oversea trade they build great stone walls so bigger ships can easily make their turn to get into the port. This walls are made of limestone rocks. Since I go looking for shark teeth a lot on the beach I wondered if there were any fossils to find there. And yess, I was lucky I never expected to find fossils from probably Carbon era in the rock walls of our harbour 1) Caninia cornucopiae, a solitary coral 2) leptaeana sp. 3) bryozoa, fenestella sp. 4) brachiopod, spirifer sp. 5) trilobite piece 6) brachiopods (Thanks to my good friend Anthonie Hellemond for determination and dating the rocks probably from Carbon era. I just knew they were fossils, I only recognised the trilobite and the spirifer ) and the last two pictures are sharkteeth I found on the beach.
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A visitor brought this item up front and I'm pulling the room to see if anyone has a definite ID on this piece. It's almost like coal, definitely seems like a carbonized something. Doesn't have the calcite to indicate plant, perhaps a fish coprolite? Thanks in advance.
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From the album: Plantae
From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
From the album: Plantae
Imprint of a stem. From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
From the album: Plantae
Imprint of a stem. From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
Rock hounds are on the hunt for new carbon minerals A new challenge has scientists searching for dozens of unknown, beguiling crystals by Sid Perkins, Science News, October 4, 2016 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rock-hounds-are-hunt-new-carbon-minerals We Are Missing At Least 145 Carbon-Bearing Minerals, and You Can Help Find Them, SmithsonianCom http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/we-are-missing-145-carbon-bearing-mineral-you-can-help-find-them-180957575/ The Carbon mineral challenge http://mineralchallenge.net http://mineralchallenge.net/carbon-mineral-ecology-predicting-the-undiscovered-minerals-of-carbon/ http://mineralchallenge.net/the-leaderboard/ Yours, Paul H.
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