ncain444 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Hello, I am new here. I am looking for information on this concretion I found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncain444 Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 Hello, I am new here. Just looking for information on this concretion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 Welcome to TFF from Austria! Yeah, it looks like some kind of concretion. I don´t see any fossil(s). However, I am using something quite similar as a joke : Franz Bernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 It is brown and layered and sitting on an imitation wood grain surface. That's about all anyone will be able to tell you without photos of the sides and bottom and at least a little bit of information about where it was found and whether it was found in situ or as an erratic from an unknown strata of sediment. If you have specific questions, ask them. Also, you'll have more people seeing your specimen if you post inquiries like this in the Fossil ID section or the mineral section. There may be a fossil in one of the layers, but there's no way of knowing which one or if one exists. The way to find out is to split it open. Concretions like this are quite common so if there's nothing in it it's no great loss. Welcome to the forum from Illinois. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Welcome aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjfriend Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Welcome from Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncain444 Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 Wow that is funny. I am just curious. You are saying it is just a coincidence the shape that has formed inside this rock? It was found in freshly turned dirt at a construction site near lake Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncain444 Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 Haha thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncain444 Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 I found it in newly turned dirt at a construction site. Near lake Michigan. It looks very detailed so I am trying to figure out how this was formed. And if it has value. I considered donating to museum if not. I really don't know much about this type of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 8 minutes ago, ncain444 said: Wow that is funny. I am just curious. You are saying it is just a coincidence the shape that has formed inside this rock? It was found in freshly turned dirt at a construction site near lake Michigan. Yes, but that rock has probably been around for several million years or more. Lots of time to get pounded left and right and roughed up and smoothed out and broken and squeezed and dropped and buried and eroded and . . . I'm sure you get the idea. It's been around long enough for weather and water to make it what it is. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, ncain444 said: You are saying it is just a coincidence the shape that has formed inside this rock? Yes. Its just coincidence. A nicely weathered concretion in sandstone. But it caused severe in some members... . Franz Bernhard Edited March 13, 2022 by FranzBernhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Welcome from Texas! I saw the post about this rock in Fossil ID, it may be better to merge the two. @Fossildude19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveE Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 12:55 PM, FranzBernhard said: Welcome to TFF from Austria! Yeah, it looks like some kind of concretion. I don´t see any fossil(s). However, I am using something quite similar as a joke : Franz Bernhard Had it been collected two days earlier it would have been on a Fry Day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 TOPICS MERGED. 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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