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Treeweasel

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Hi I need help identifying/confirming some fossils found in Greene county Missouri here are a few. A grub in volcanic glass, a walnut, and a seed beginning to sprout. Could anyone tell me anything about them? I also have some others I need identified. Sorry, I do not have an international ruler. Grub is a half inch long

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I'm seeing pieces of chert and a piece of broken/weathered glass or calcite/quartz.
I do not see any kind of grub in the glass.

I assume you are talking about this item:

 

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This looks like quartz or some other mineral inclusion.

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The worn surface of what looks to be possibly chert does look somewhat convincingly similar to walnut shell but vague similarities does not mean that is what this actually is. The oval rock with a lump on it may remind you of what a seed looks like when it begins to germinate but again that is only a vague similarity and not what these items actually represent. Pareidolia is an interesting phenomenon that allows us to interpret familiar objects from random visual information:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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