Unknown Fossil at base of Great Pyramid

[jpc]

20 hours ago, JBkansas said:

Could it be petrified wood?

 

Not sure it looks like the whale skeletons from nearby:

 

Maybe if there's a geoloc on the picture someone can find the location and get more pics.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3198337/Stunning-images-reveal-fossilised-remains-whales-middle-desert-sea-floor-long-lost-ocean.html

Bone preservation can be very variable, even with a single fossil site.  Also, I believe that those whale skeletons in the link have been out there as an in situ museum.  

 

But then... pachy found the answer... dugong!  Cool.

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

28 minutes ago, jpc said:

But then... pachy found the answer... dugong!  Cool.

 

Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer 

[Oxytropidoceras]

Some background information.

 

Zalewski, F., 2017. Petrographic observations of the 

building stones of the great pyramid of Giza. Journal 

of Geological Resource and Engineering, 4, pp.153-168.

 

Abstract for above paper

 

PDF for above paper

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[JohnJ]

2 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer 

On 5/26/2022 at 1:26 PM, FranzBernhard said:

Bone, rib cage as already mentioned... Does not look like bone, so the only option remaining is dugong ribs?

Franz Bernhard

 

...but, @FranzBernhard was already on the right path.  

[FranzBernhard]

11 hours ago, JohnJ said:

was already on the right path.

It was pure teamwork in the spirit of TFF !

 

First, "rib cage" was suggested by @Mark Kmiecik!

Second, "bone" was suggested by @Top Trilo!

Third, I combined "rib cage" with "non-bony bone" - dugong?

Fourth, @jpc and @Jared C considered whale!

Fifth, @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon presented his similar (or same!) discovery many, many years ago!

Sixth, @Anna Marie obviously searched for dugong and here we are!

 

Brainstorming and team work at its best! Best of TFF !! What a great forum with great members!

 

Franz Bernhard

Edited May 28, 2022 by FranzBernhard

[rocket]

interesting, first time I expected burrows, but now, after reading the comments and taking time with the picture... Ribs. Very cool!

[Boesse]

Absolutely a dugongid skeleton, almost certainly Eocene. There was recently a paper published by a colleague of mine on a dugong skeleton preserved in a block of limestone on a passageway in the step pyramid of Djoser!

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

2 hours ago, Boesse said:

Absolutely a dugongid skeleton, almost certainly Eocene. There was recently a paper published by a colleague of mine on a dugong skeleton preserved in a block of limestone on a passageway in the step pyramid of Djoser!

 

Oh wow! Didn't know they had these fossils at Saqqara as well! They indeed seem to be quite widespread, in that case...! 

[Anna Marie]

On 5/27/2022 at 12:51 PM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer 

I say @FranzBernhard gets the credit. He actually deduced it. I knew there were fossils at the pyramid and just googled it .  

[Anna Marie]

On 5/28/2022 at 2:25 AM, FranzBernhard said:

It was pure teamwork in the spirit of TFF !

 

First, "rib cage" was suggested by @Mark Kmiecik!

Second, "bone" was suggested by @Top Trilo!

Third, I combined "rib cage" with "non-bony bone" - dugong?

Fourth, @jpc and @Jared C considered whale!

Fifth, @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon presented his similar (or same!) discovery many, many years ago!

Sixth, @Anna Marie obviously searched for dugong and here we are!

 

Brainstorming and team work at its best! Best of TFF !! What a great forum with great members!

 

Franz Bernhard

I don't take any credit lol. I knew there are fossils there and just googled that. My work was all superficial. The rest of you guys are the experts and used your skills! I'm grateful though for all of you and your help. I'm learning more and more!! This site rocks!!  

Edited June 1, 2022 by Anna Marie

[FranzBernhard]

12 hours ago, Anna Marie said:

I say @FranzBernhard gets the credit.

Thanks, but I don´t feel so. But it doesn´t really matter, who has solved it. Everyone contributed. One upon the shoulders of another one .

Franz Bernhard