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Please help to identify this heart shaped bone found on my local beach today
Dorset_Belle posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this bone? on a beach walk this afternoon after a stormy couple of days weather. I'm not sure if it's a fossil but was wondered whether it could be a rostral node? Found on Branksome Chine Beach, Poole UK. Thanks in advance. -
Pitted or porous surfaces may be hard to identify ... but their reverse side may provide the needed clue
NFLfinder posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Hello everybody! I have another U.F.O here (Unidentified Florissant Object) and to be honest, this one has really stumped me! It isn't a carbon stain, it isn't one of those pumice chunks 'fireballs' that are common at Florissant, and it has a strange texture and shape. Weirdly preserved petrified wood? That is my best guess as of now... @piranha @Top Trilo @Tetradium The fossil is 1/2 an inch long. The first 2 pictures are the fossil by itself and the third I circled it. The rest are microscope pics of the texture. Pics 5,6, and 9 show the edges. 7 shows the top.
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Not sure if it matters where it came from but just in case, was in a mix of QAL and Eagle Ford. Thought it was bone when I picked it up but it felt funny like plastic and weighed nothing. Figured it would float but didn't, thought surely it would melt with flame but didn't, and no smell. I've shown it with piece of worn bone for comparison, but I'm still perplexed. What else could it be? Last picture is the bone.
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Found in my backyard in southern california. Hard to get a good pic of it, but the center of it is a cone shape. Circular and wide at the top, with the pointy part towards the inner/center.
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My boys found this rock containing what looks like multiple fossils to me. Just looking for any info I can give my boys. Doesn't need to be too detailed. Ages 6 to 11. Thanks!
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Hi, My name is Neal, I found this rock on the side of a railroad bed near Caro, MI. It is heavy for it's size, and has quite a bit of porosity to it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
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Found this at Trout River, NWT amongst other fossils in an area that is supposedly Silurian period. Rock is only porous on one side. I have no idea if it is a fossil or if the rock has been through some sort of physical change. Let me know if higher res pictures are needed. All responses are appreciated.
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Hi, it's me bothering you guys again with yet another find I can't identify. The stine is close to 10cm on the longest side. I found it at the coast near Nin surrounded by some Nummulites. Some pieces look almost sponge like... like there are canals running through? I can't make heads or tails of it.
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Hello, so I’m not sure where this is exactly from, my dad gave it to me when I was little and he said that he found it while working, excavating for TXDOT(State of Texas construction work). I’ve kept it ever since and recently after going through my collection, I’ve noticed that this could possibly be an egg of some sort. So after extensive research with no luck, can anyone possibly help me figure out what this is?
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Most people who have spent a fair amount of learning about paleontology know about "the lick test", but I still can't find a real explanation to why your finger sticks to material that's porous when its wet. The only thing I've found explaining it, is basically just a rephrasing of the test itself, for example "Because it's porous" I've also heard that the saliva gets sucked from your finger into the porous material, but why does your finger stick from that?
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Hello, I was out walking literally in the middle of nowhere near Jarray, British columbia. There were many different rock out crops and cliffs so i decided to have a peak around. Eventually I came to a hill littered with tens of thousands of rock chunks. Then this guy caught my eye, nothing else in the area even remotely resembled the porous characteristic of this specimen. So I was curious on your thoughts whether this could be bone or just a run of the mill porous rock? Thanks!
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Was hiking across the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands a few years back and found this. Looks porous and cemented in a siliceous rock. Any ideas? Thanks!
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NW Arizona, near grand canyon caverns. I found this today, i brought it home because it looks almost like it's been cut on a bandsaw. It looks like a bone that's been cut and fossilized. Is this just a rock or something else?
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Large, Heavy But Porous And Egg Shaped. Shape Indicates Concretion.
Raestelle posted a topic in Fossil ID
Back in the 1970's my dad found this in Balmoreah, TX. He was an avid arrowhead hunter and made a rock garden. I guess I just want to know for sure that it is a concretion and nothing else. It's very large at 10 1/2" x 6" and heavy yet porous (at least on the surface.). Also, he was at one time told that the Indians used these for rolling on hides.