JoetheJerseyGuy Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Big Brook, NJ (Late Cretaceous): Rock, bone or other? Eight pictures attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 That is a tough call. The flat look in the way it is cracked (delaminated?) is odd. I think it is bone though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 without fine structure pics not easy to say. Looks more like bone than non-fossil rock for me 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I agree, the surface texture looks more like cortical bone than stone. And the scratches on top kind of remind me of cut-marks, which, depending on the ages of the material found at your specific find locality allowing for this possibility, might indicate butchering. That, at least, is what it looks like to me. Very interesting piece...! 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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