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Can Anyone Help ID This Fossil?


VickyRenee

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I found this in Northwest Missouri. 

It's approx 1.5" tall, 1" wide and only .25" thick.

I see eyes and fangs?  But then again I see lots of things in fossils and rocks that aren't there LOL!

Can anyone help ID this?

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No snake fossil - that is for sure.

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54 minutes ago, VickyRenee said:

what's this??

Two convex bits of shell that happened to come to rest 'back to back'.

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2 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Two convex bits of shell that happened to come to rest 'back to back'.

Ahhh okay cool.

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I'm getting ready to post another fossil, this time I think this IS a snake head LOL. 

I just found it in my bags of rocks I collected last weekend. 

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Snake heads don't fossilize.  If you search the forum for fossilized or petrified snake heads, you should find a lot of posts that discuss this, and some pics of snake skulls, which is the closest one could get to a "fossilized snake head".

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My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs.

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2 minutes ago, Fin Lover said:

Snake heads don't fossilize.  If you search the forum for fossilized or petrified snake heads, you should find a lot of posts that discuss this, and some pics of snake skulls, which is the closest one could get to a "fossilized snake head".

They don't?  Oh I didn't know that.

Okay well I'm not sure what it is LOL then.

Thank you for that information!

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This post has a lot of information and pictures at the bottom that might be helpful.

 

 

 

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Fin Lover

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My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs.

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1 hour ago, Fin Lover said:

This post has a lot of information and pictures at the bottom that might be helpful.

 

 

Thank you very much!

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