Fossil or Rock

[COOL FINDS]

Good morning and thanks for the invite.

 

I am going blind and just want to see and learn all I can while I can. I have found a few things while walking about here and there in between working outdoors and fishing on the rivers and lakes here in Texas. One piece in particular I found while exploring the property adjacent to where I was living in Cool, Tx (with the permission of the land owner of course) that resembles at a glance or in fact is a fossil.

 

I suppose this could be verified through some sort of examination using equipment that could possibly x-ray or someone with a trained eye could say whether it is in fact a fossil or not. I sent pictures to one of the top universities in America and they said it was only a 'cool' rock It is about the size of your fist.

 

I will post pics when I figure out how to. The two pieces I am sure are artifacts are a small mortar and a piece that resembles an animal. I will also attempt to post those pictures later on. Other than that I have quite a few small fossils found mostly in Tarrant county along with a ton of chert, jasper, agates, feldspar, quartz and flint found in Palo Pinto county where I now reside.

 

[Ludwigia]

The only fossils that I'm seeing here are in the last photo in the middle of which is a gastropod cast and to the left and right 2 echinoids. Everything else is cool rock.

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Thank you for your rapid response.

 

[JohnJ]

The first rock may have tiny fossils in it, but it would probably take magnification to identify them.

[JBkansas]

I agree with @JohnJ, there appears to be an echinoid spine in the first rock (as well as other small fossils). In focus close ups would be required to say more.

Edited June 12, 2022 by JBkansas