Redd22 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Hello! Newbie here with a love for fossils. I have a very small collection and only casually hunt for them. Anyways, I was on a trip to Forest County, Pennsylvania this past weekend. I was cruising a creek channel looking for trout in the Allegheny NF when this caught my eye. My gut feeling was this looks like a piece of wood, but it's very dense, it does feel heavy like a piece of stone. There's a lot of sandstone in this creek valley, but this feels much heavier than that. Bark-like striations and some is flaking off like a sedimentary or mica flavor of rock. It's flat on one side with a small ridge down the middle. Both ends are also flat, almost like a cut piece of wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Sorry. I'm not sure what the odd texture is, but it's not rock wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 It looks like sandstone. Not a fossil from what I can see. I'm not 100% percent sure, but I would put the odds at 85% not wood. 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...
Redd22 Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 21 hours ago, Rockwood said: Sorry. I'm not sure what the odd texture is, but it's not rock wood. Thank you for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redd22 Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 21 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said: It looks like sandstone. Not a fossil from what I can see. I'm not 100% percent sure, but I would put the odds at 85% not wood. Thank you for your time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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