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I found this today on the beach in southern Oregon. I have never heard of a fossilized nut but figure this would be the place to ask!

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Hi, all I can say is I don't think that's a fossilised nut.

Can you be more précise about the location and give us the size of your item ?

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I would try the Flame test on this. Hold it to a flame, and see if it catches fire, smokes or burns in any way.

This looks like a modern nut, seed, or fruit pit.

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Ok. Well, the hollow area. smoked a bit but didn’t light on fire so I suppose it is just a modern nut that is partly calcified.  THANK YOU!!

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8 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

I would try the Flame test on this. Hold it to a flame, and see if it catches fire, smokes or burns in any way.

This looks like a modern nut, seed, or fruit pit.

Lignified fossils can also burn... As does amber

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40 minutes ago, dolevfab said:

Lignified fossils can also burn...

But then are they really fossils? Or would they be considered "subfossils"?

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3 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

But then are they really fossils? Or would they be considered "subfossils"?

Depends on what you mean... Plant material can remain mostly unchanged chemically for tens of millions of years. Also many fossil bones are the original non recrystalized apatite. In my opinion this issue doesnt really matter, there are plenty of modes of preservation of biological remains. Their scientific importance doesn't depend on how thoroughly fossilized they are, and this, in and of itself isn't a reliable indication of age. 

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The thing the poster has shown us fairly quickly struck me as being carpological.

Some of you may want to look up "carpology"", the subdiscipline  of (paleo)botany that concerns itself with the study of (fossil) disseminules.

edit : leaf wax alkanes last a long time

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