Treader Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Here's one that I came across while walking in the woods near a river. The shape caught my eye so I picked it up. Is it a Petrified bone, or just a rock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 It's not pretty, but that's bone. If it's rock hard it is a fossil. I'll let others deal with the technicality of if petrified is the correct term for the preservation or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 when you have a close look at the end of the bone (the broken, not rounded one), could you see some details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Sorry guys, I have to disagree with you on this one. Especially looking at the last pic has me convinced this is geologic and not a fossil. 5 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 It's an old memory, but it seems like I remember @Plax identifying a bone preservation that had this sort of appearance once. I agree it does have a geologic look. The underlying texture is very bone like though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 A straight on view of the broken end would help. The area I circled in the first photo below looks (and implies) geologic to me. Cropped an brightened: 1 1 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...
val horn Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 i to would like to see internal texture, I am on the fence right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I admittedly haven't earned my wings on this forum yet, so take this as you will, but I'll be shocked if the consensus points to bone on this one. I respect the experience of those who posted, but I'm very squarely in the geologic camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Bone isn't the same as a bone. Just sayin'. It would help if someone would suggest the rock type that would have a texture like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 4 hours ago, Rockwood said: Bone isn't the same as a bone. Just sayin'. It would help if someone would suggest the rock type that would have a texture like this. Maybe weathered tripolitic chert (low grade) may look like this ? 1 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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