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Possible bone from Ramanessin brook?


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I went to the Ramanessin brook a few months ago for the first time, while I was busy looking at my cretaceous shark teeth I completely forgot about this thing I found. 

To me it looks just like a bone but I have never found any type of bone in New Jersey before, I'm curious if it is one. And if it is, is it possible to identify what this could possibly be from.

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3 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

Maybe from a castroides molar tooth ?

its a cretaceous formation, so would castroides be a possible find?

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27 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

its a cretaceous formation, so would castroides be a possible find?

 

27 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

its a cretaceous formation, so would castroides be a possible find?

It lacks the ridges normally seen in castroides...and you wouldn’t find them in Cretaceous members.

 

here’s a castroides cast for comparison.

 

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30 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

its a cretaceous formation, so would castroides be a possible find?

There are remains of Pleistocene deposits that show up in the brooks occasionally. 

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35 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

molar tooth

 

2 minutes ago, LabRatKing said:

It lacks the ridges normally seen in castroides

 

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It is not Cretaceous. It is much more likely to be modern than Pleistocene, unfortunately.

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20 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

When is fine, but what ?

A tiny fragment like this is not IDable

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1 hour ago, The Jersey Devil said:

It is not Cretaceous. It is much more likely to be modern than Pleistocene, unfortunately.

It is fully mineralized so I doubt it's modern but either way is it a bone?

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7 minutes ago, The Jersey Devil said:

A tiny fragment like this is not IDable

Huh ! ? Not at any leval ?

 

2 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

It is fully mineralized so I doubt it's modern but either way is it a bone?

I'm not so sure. Why are you ?

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It is a bone. I am not fully of @The Jersey Devil 's opinion that it is modern, but I am not fully certain that it's Cretaceous. I would label it solely as 'bone'. If it disintegrates later on, then it is certainly modern.

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2 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

It is fully mineralized so I doubt it's modern but either way is it a bone?

I don’t think it’s fully mineralized

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Just now, Rockwood said:

 

I'm not so sure. Why are you ?

 

Just now, The Jersey Devil said:

I don’t think it’s fully mineralized

it has that certain pingy sound when you tap it against other rocks, also I held a lighter to it for 30 seconds and nothing happened except me burning my finger :)

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3 minutes ago, Fossil_finder_ said:

 

it has that certain pingy sound when you tap it against other rocks, also I held a lighter to it for 30 seconds and nothing happened except me burning my finger :)

Wouldn't that be on list  a bit more inclusive than just fossil bone ?

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