wyldewastelander Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Loose on the cobble near the mudflats/water at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia. Just wondering if this is textured rock or any kind of fossil. Thanks for your help with this. Cheers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Oh, nice! Thanks for sharing! But I don´t know, what it is, sorry... Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguy Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) 32 minutes ago, wyldewastelander said: Just wondering if this is textured rock or any kind of fossil Probably ripple marks with Kinneyia (microbial mat) Edited August 11, 2021 by marguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguy Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 @wyldewastelander , I do not know the geology of your region, do you know the geological period for your rock? did you find only this specimen , or is this rock found in layers visible in the surrounding area? ( thank you for your reply ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldewastelander Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 Hi there @marguy. I am not really sure of the geological period for the rock. I am only suggesting Carboniferous because that's my understanding of the geological period for the significant fossil finds of the area. I observed this one specimen - it was loose on the rocky area of the beach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Tool marks are common there, so ripples might be expected. A feature that I questioned about being microbial, turned out to be a settling/dewatering feature. There are plant fossils as well as plant and animal traces, so a thin organic layer of muddy surface that puckered some makes sense to me. A thick mat, in human terms, would likely preserve on a microscopic scale if at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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