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I live in south western Kentucky. I was walking my dog and saw some interesting looking rocks and picked this one up and kinda looked like a fossil. Just curious… thanks for taking the time to look at it
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I'm new to fossil hunting and already know that I'm way over my head. I find that This hobby unlike the other habits I have had over the years takes far more brain power than I have at this stage of my life. I'm still trying to figure out how you guys can look at a rock and tell if there is a fossil in it or not. I find that I'm more fooled than actually finding something that's worth hauling out of the woods. And let me tell you I have dragged some big bags of rock off those hills I have been hunting for the past few months. I started out just looking for arrow heads along the many creeks that are leaching out of the banks of these Chesapeake Group formation hills but soon became so fascinated by all the broken shells all over the place than I was collecting arrow heads. As I sat there wondering where all these pieces of coral and shell came from it dawned on me that I needed to do some research. Sadly, it seems that the more I find out the less I know. Since then I have done more reading than at anytime of my life. I've read this whole site probably 6 times and every now an again something sticks out and makes sense then I read the next post and it all becomes a big blurred mass of big fancy words that have no meaning. Well at least to this old country boy anyway. I've gone from walking the gentle rolling creek beds looking for arrow heads, to picking up odd looking rocks and giving each one the lick and burn test or smelling each one for signs that it may be the prized poop fossil some folks seem to be so fascinated with. Needless to say I have a pretty good sized rock garden in front of my shop from rocks that for one reason or another didn't pass the poop test. I have collected a lot of bone fragments that I truly believe to be real fossilized pieces of bone and I have several that I'm not sure of. I'm going to post a couple pictures from around the site with a few of the pieces I have dragged out the woods just to see if there is someone out there that could tell me if I am wasting my time and should find something else to do with my life I have left.
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