Mkultra Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Inherited this from my grandpa think he found it in Utah somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuckMucus Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 A skull of some sort? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 This looks geologic to me - nodule or septarian nodule of some sort. 2 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...
HuckMucus Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) I've been proven wrong slot here so I'll try to explain my reasoning. The first photo looks like a top down shot with the nose pointing upper right. There is symmetry there and the protrusions on either side remind me of those pigs like tusk sockets. To the rear is a orbit on the right, broke off on left. The long black thing rolling forward looks like a powerful front tooth socket. Second photo looking at right side of skull but still somewhat top down. Nose still upper right. Fourth photo, bottom of skull, insisors to top in hand, black. Fifth photo, not sure of angle but broken black teeth. Me feel is a small but mature "entelodont" or daeodon-type mammal with those heavy bony skulls with all those protrusions. Kind of piggy. Heavy teeth and tusks. I'm not married to this. Just trying to see something. (And typing on a small device) Edited June 27, 2022 by HuckMucus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 In the first image, I see the keel (siphuncle) of a partial "horned" ammonite encased in a broken nodule. @erose @Uncle Siphuncle @BobWill @PFOOLEY 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 7 hours ago, JohnJ said: In the first image, I see the keel (siphuncle) of a partial "horned" ammonite encased in a broken nodule. @erose @Uncle Siphuncle @BobWill @PFOOLEY Possibly, but beyond that I must respectfully punt. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Part of a very large 'horned' ammonite. I will bet all of Uncle Siphuncle's hard earned cash on it. That means I am very certain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mkultra Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 Thanks very cool to learn that it is some kind of fossil! Do you know what that bony looking thing could be in the last 3 photos or is it just erosion over time? I plan on taking it to the museum of ancient life here in Utah that's just down the road from me but it's great getting opinions before I do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 6/27/2022 at 11:02 AM, JohnJ said: In the first image, I see the keel (siphuncle) of a partial "horned" ammonite encased in a broken nodule. @erose @Uncle Siphuncle @BobWill @PFOOLEY The "hint" of horns in the first image sort of loses it's punch in the second picture where there's nothing to back it up. It's just be too rough and may be still encased in too much matrix to see good evidence of an ammonite. It's one of those things you would have to see in person to make a valid judgement. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Cool fossil. I have to agree with @JohnJ...part of an Ammonite in a concretion. Compare it with large specimens of Prionocylus macombi...I would guess you will find many similarities. 2 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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