jrm6359 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I know there are tons of 'not an egg' look alike rocks but as they don't seem to resemble this one I will venture to ask...my daughter found this in a shallow riverbed on our camping trip last week to central Connecticut. The brown shell like pieces are thick and uniform. There are some in the opposite side as well, will upload more pictures. This pic was taken the day of the find. Any insight would be welcome. My daughter is 4 and pulled it out because we were discussing all the different colors of the river rocks. This one looked nothing like the others. A man we had chatted with the day prior lives close to the riverbed and had spent the summer doing a lot of rock stacking and moving lots of the river stones around to build these rock nests in the water for his toddler to play in. A lot of the areas we were wading in were spots he'd been uncovering and relocating rocks. ANYWAY - any comments are welcome. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I am not aware of there ever being any egg fossils found in Connecticut. And this certainly is not one, looks like just a river tumbled rock to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I'm not sure if this formed along with the Appalachian mountains or when the Atlantic opened, but I'm pretty sure it isn't an egg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Misha said: looks like just a river tumbled rock to me. To me it looks like a conglomerate - you can see different types of rock merged into one, as well as pieces of shinier white irregular-shaped peddles in a white chalky matrix - quite possibly indeed river-tumbled... 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Has more of an over cooked look to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Welcome to the Forum. Being extremely familiar with paleontology of the Connecticut River Valley, I have to agree this isn't an egg. No eggs have ever been found in Connecticut. However, Connecticut does have some very spectacular and interesting geologic samples that are often mistaken for fossils. 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...
Rockwood Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Does it match any geology you are familiar with ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 9:45 AM, Rockwood said: Does it match any geology you are familiar with ? None. This looks like some sort of quartz/quartzite with an iron stained sheath. Metamorphic, rather than sedimentary, I would think. 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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