Ricky Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 My dogs chain dug this out of the ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 I got better pics trying to figure out how to get them off my camera and On to here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Not looking like a vertebra, from these pictures. No bone texture that I can make out. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FossilDAWG Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I agree that it does not look like bone. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ricky Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 It's actually a rock that used to be a bone lol but sorry these pics don't let you see the 2 specimen as they are I gotta go back to the museum for identification when the Paleo is in they gonna call me and I'll let you know what they say but they are vertabra out of something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingSepron Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 15 hours ago, Ricky said: It's actually a rock that used to be a bone lol but sorry these pics don't let you see the 2 specimen as they are I gotta go back to the museum for identification when the Paleo is in they gonna call me and I'll let you know what they say but they are vertabra out of something You’ve got more access to it than we do, so you can of course be right, but it doesn’t look bone to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 These look like pieces of chert that remain after dissolution of the surrounding limestone. The soil resulting from the limestone weathering is usually brown or reddish. The chert being silica doesn't dissolve like the surrounding limestone. It looks like there may be some bits of palaeozoic shells on the left side of that last pic. I wouldn't have any faith in someone that tells you these are verts. Are you going to the museum in Martinsville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 The last piece you can clearly see the impression of some kind of backbone neckbone the pictures make em look more like rocks than they do in person and I've took them to the museum of the middle Appalachian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 They passed the tongue test for bone but I will let y'all know what the local expert says when I catch em downtown and Google Saltville Virginia and check out everything and everyone that has came here and collected fossils Thomas Jefferson came here to study "monster bones" that was wooly mammoth or mastodon bones there are fossils in collections all over the world from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Once again fooled by concretions it surprises me the shapes and forms they make I got a lot of concretions here I got hematite concretions chert concretions and sandstone concretions all over where I live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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