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Fossil bone or interestingly shaped jasper?


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Hello everyone,

 

I found this in Washington State, Pleistocene, near Mason County.  

 

Suggestive piece of jasper or fossil bone?

 

And I apologize for not using metric.  I couldn't find my other measurer...

 

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Chris

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I'm gonna have to go with geologic, but it's definitely one of the closest to a plausible bone shape that I've seen posted here...

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Hi,

 

I can’t help you, but I just wanted to say that I’ve never seen such a scale with 1/8 - 3/8 etc... When I give measurements in cm I am obliged to make a conversion with a calculator to indicate them also in inch... :heartylaugh:

 

Coco

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1 hour ago, Coco said:

I’ve never seen such a scale with 1/8 - 3/8 etc...

Sheathing such as plywood in a US hardware store has a standard thickness in 32nds of an inch. :wacko:

Go figure.  :)

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Thanks for the replies! 

 

It looks so good, it can sit in the collection as an oddity!

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  • 5 weeks later...
On 5/16/2020 at 5:13 PM, GeschWhat said:

It looks very close to bone structure on the ends, but if it is one, the cortical bone doesn't look right. Is it possible that this came from a prehistoric floodplain?

I'm honestly not sure.  Let me do a little more research and see what I can find out about the area!

 

 

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Tripolitic chert may look like your specimen. 

 

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