br1marie Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 (edited) Does anyone know what this might be inside of this limestone? Found at Maskuta Creek, Alberta, a stream connected to the MacLeod River 4 km from Drinnan in the Hinton Valley Edited November 9, 2022 by br1marie Added missing information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Welcome to TFF from Austria! Puzzling! At least not a tree root. Sure of limestone? I am seeing some rock clasts? Whats the size? Tooth seems plausible, but I don´t know! Interesting cross section . Other people will comment soon, very interesting specimen! Franz Bernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 9, 2022 Author Share Posted November 9, 2022 (edited) There is alot of limestone in this area so that’s why i thought it was but maybe its something else ! My photos aren’t very good so I took some other ones today next to a measuring tape. I appreciate your input thanks a lot for commenting:) Edited November 9, 2022 by br1marie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the additional pics! Quite large - 10 cm long at least. Ok, one side of the specimen is a conglomerate (lots of pebbles), the other, main part, of the specimen could be sandstone, but could also be (impure) limestone. Are there more bits of the same kind in the specimen? Would you like to take detailed pics of the surface and the cross section of the object in question? With good lightning. I can already see some texture, but you can do it better for sure . The object in question seems to be also somewhat glossy. Is this natural or did you do something to the object? Whats the geology of the area, the age of the rocks? Edit: Considering everything, I can also not exclude a piece of fossilized wood at the moment... Franz Bernhard Edited November 10, 2022 by FranzBernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 Hopefully this is the right information lol as I don’t know very much myself but I did find this. These are the three kinds of geological formations in the area where it was found •Brazeau formations •Cretaceous; Alberta Group •Mesozoic; Lower Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic I am working on finding out about how old the formations are as well as any other geological info I can find:) thanks very much for your time ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 The outside kinda looks like wood but kinda looks like enamel, the end doesn't look like wood though, interesting piece hopefully someone will figure it out. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Thank you very much for the additional info (largely Mesozoic it is) and the detailed pics, which are quite good. A surface texture is quite well visible, also some borings(?) in some areas. The cross section shows a small-scale, worm-like texture? Maybe this is typical for some kind of bone? I don´t know, I am a shell guy . Will tag some big bosses : @Troodon, @jpc. Thank you! Franz Bernhard 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 @Rockwood ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I think you are looking at early Cretaceous and guessing more of a marine unit in that part of the province without exactly where it was found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Fin spine from a shark ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 It looks like a bone fragment...maybe from a rib? 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeydoeswork Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I wouldn’t listen to me at all but Google “mammoth tusk tip” and there seems to be some similar looking things out there. Maybe you can compare measurements… looks like some type of bone to me, but I’m usually wrong with these sort of things! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I first thought tusk of some sort but now I'm going way out on a limb, and since it was found in a creek, the rock reminds me of man made road materials and concrete but pictures aren't clear enough but if so could that be something man made also? In the last set of pictures it looks kinda plasticy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I think the problem is that cracks in the piece are filled with a darker material which obscures the actual texture. The concrete like nature of the matrix is often a look seen where chunks of bone accumulate, such as lag deposit. A cracked and weathered bit of bone as @JohnJ suggests does seem likely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 @br1marie Can you take some focused, well lit photos of the broken ends? The 'squiggly' patterns suggest fossil bone...if they are not rootlets. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) @Lone Hunterat first when I seen it I also thought it was just something stuck in a piece of concrete! But once I picked it up and seen it wasn’t I should of posted this sooner but here is a picture of where it was found ! The Name Maskuta Creek is misleading because its not so much a creek really , but a channel connected to Alberta's Athabasca River Thanks everyone :):) Im super happy to be a part of this forum! Also ill have more photos of the specimen to add soon with better lighting and better focus - Maskuta Creek Stream, Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada Edited November 15, 2022 by br1marie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) @JohnJ I wish I had a better camera ಠ╭╮ಠ Edited November 15, 2022 by br1marie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 @Mikeydoesworkwow your right it really does look similar to the pictures of mammoths tusks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br1marie Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 @Rockwoodthanks for your knowledge:) I’m learning so much about new things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 1 hour ago, br1marie said: @JohnJ I wish I had a better camera Try in natural light to see if you get better results. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) i'm here to second bone (if i had to bet). Those squiggleys are suggestive. Edited November 15, 2022 by Jared C 1 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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