Sarah_g_47 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Found this at a beach in south texas, I have no idea what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishkeeper Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 It's gorgeous, but I'm not sure it's a fossil. I think you've just got a really strangely shaped rock, probably weathered away like that by the water. How large is it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Welcome to tje forum! I' m not sure what the nice specimen you find might be, but in my opinion, it might have a geological pattern. Maybe, some kind of limestone nodule/concretion resembling bone structure. 2 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Not sure that is organic or not. Would need focused photos of all sides. At this point from what I can see, I'm leaning towards geological in origin. Really, really cool, but geological. 1 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 The Phrygian hat that adorned our Mariana’s head on the French stamps ! https://www.wikitimbres.fr/timbres/1538/sans-legende-particuliere-type-liberte-de-gandon Sorry ! Geological. Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah_g_47 Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Fishkeeper said: It's gorgeous, but I'm not sure it's a fossil. I think you've just got a really strangely shaped rock, probably weathered away like that by the water. How large is it? Thank you for the reply! Its about 5 to 6 inches long, it very well may be rock. Here is a photo of the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishkeeper Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Yeah, I'm inclined to think it's rock. Possibly more interesting than some shard of bone, what with trying to figure out how that happened. I'm guessing the curved part was buried in the sand at some point, and the waves washed that upper part down? The streamlined shape looks like it was maybe in some sort of steady flow. It definitely looks like some sort of organic shape, but it's too even. If you look, there's no notable textural differences that would show inside vs outside of some kind of bone. Coral would probably be rougher. And it doesn't look like any part of anything's skeleton, that I'm aware of. I call those "suggestive rocks", and they are in a separate category from the other kind of suggestive rocks, which are generally *cough* some form of cylindrical. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah_g_47 Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 Thank you for the information!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 19 hours ago, Fishkeeper said: I call those "suggestive rocks", and they are in a separate category from the other kind of suggestive rocks, which are generally *cough* some form of cylindrical. You mean dinosaur eggs, of course. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishkeeper Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Oh, sure, that's absolutely what I (*cough**cough*) mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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