Feblover Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Call for help to ID, a piece of Dino Bone with special marks on the bone surface. It's roughly 15 cm long, and was dug out from Southern China, near Myanmar. It's with very little surrounding rocks. Gut feeling it's part of woodstone or tree fossil, then figured out there is layer of bone shell, and the marks on the surface seems very distinctive for bone fossils, maybe from dinosaur skin. Look forward to your comments, a new memeber of the forum, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LordTrilobite Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I don't think that's skin. It looks to be part of the bone. Some animals have various patterns in some places on their bones. Turtle shells would be an example that often have patterns like this. Crocs also have rough bone texture on their skulls. And some dinosaurs also have a similar condition. 5 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Very cool specimen. Agree not skin but have never seen that uniform of a dimple pattern on bone any chance its not bone even though it looks like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 22 hours ago, LordTrilobite said: I don't think that's skin. It looks to be part of the bone. Some animals have various patterns in some places on their bones. Turtle shells would be an example that often have patterns like this. Crocs also have rough bone texture on their skulls. And some dinosaurs also have a similar condition. Thanks, very helpful, I will try to find more information on the "patterns on bone" part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 15 hours ago, Troodon said: Very cool specimen. Agree not skin but have never seen that uniform of a dimple pattern on bone any chance its not bone even though it looks like it. Thanks, the interesting part to me is also the pattern in surface, it's quite special for bone fossil, I've looked into several reference books for similar thing, unfortunately, no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Could it be a sponge?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Some amphibians and fish also have patterns on their skulls. 1 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinoFossilsUK Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Welcome to the forum! As soon as I saw this I thought it looked like a chunk of turtle shell. Here's a piece of turtle shell from Hell Creek for comparison. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Besides the turtle or croc fossil suggestion, could it be a tree bark? What fossils are known from the area where this was found? 1 Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 5 hours ago, westcoast said: Could it be a sponge?? dunt think so, does sponge fossil have similar internal texture or tissue patterns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 4 hours ago, LordTrilobite said: Some amphibians and fish also have patterns on their skulls. thanks, will look into those options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 44 minutes ago, DinoFossilsUK said: Welcome to the forum! As soon as I saw this I thought it looked like a chunk of turtle shell. Here's a piece of turtle shell from Hell Creek for comparison. Noted, thanks. but the piece I presented is with sorts of internal tissue-like thing as indicated in the attached new pic, no clue what's that. And the shell part is too thin to be turtle shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 28 minutes ago, -Andy- said: Besides the turtle or croc fossil suggestion, could it be a tree bark? What fossils are known from the area where this was found? yes! that was my first thought when i looked at this piece, and i bought it with a tree fossil price tag, but seems its from certain animal as the discussion continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinoFossilsUK Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 The shell on mine is around 1-2mm and I'm wondering if the internal tissue you describe is just bone (but preserved in a different way to say mine from Hell Creek). As you can see, the Hell Creek one has bone structure beneath the shell, just preserved in a different way. Croc is another candidate too though, just thought I'd offer the turtle shell for comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 What is the age? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 4 hours ago, GeschWhat said: What is the age? It's said the rock formation of this piece is about late cretaceous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 So the pattern is on both sides? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feblover Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 8 minutes ago, GeschWhat said: So the pattern is on both sides? Nope, cover all one side, and some on the other side (leftover seems lik bone marrow or muscle? dunt no. ), see pic in Reply 2, and Reply 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilizedJello Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Perhaps the bone is the matrix for some mineral and its creating that snowy layer effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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