CreekCrawler Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Hello everyone check out this listing on E-Bay and venture a geuss! I"m not interested in it ,but would like to know what it is. 300258180132 thanks Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 That's wild looking... I note that it appears to be built-up in onion-like layers; gotta' wonder whether it's a concretion? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Interesting rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 It seems like some odd material shows up at the NSR from time to time! Like the mushroom looking piece that NSR1 posted.I agree Auspex, it looks like a concretion of some sort.What's wierd is that the guy states that there were more of them and the others had different shapes.Another mystery! Gees! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Fossil? Link to ebay rock above I think it pretty much looks like it just might be a fossil, except I don't see any pattern etc. Pretty cool rock then.. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryland Mike Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 At least this guy is honest in stating he doesn't know what it is and isn't asking and arm and a leg for it. Carpe Diem, Carpe Somnium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Here's an item description with an uncommon, and refreshing, amount of candor; kudos to this seller! http://cgi.ebay.com/Rock-w-weird-indentati...id=p3286.c0.m14 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Honesty, it's strange to hear... but I find the price a little disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovicious Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Could it be an encrusting bryozoan--grown over something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kauffy Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Fossil?Link to ebay rock above I think it pretty much looks like it just might be a fossil, except I don't see any pattern etc. Pretty cool rock then.. Looks like it could be a fossil that a concretion has formed around? perhaps something like a crinoid stem? i dont know about that location but i have found crinoid stems that have had geodes form around them leaving just the tip of the stem protruding out... pretty neat "Turn the fear of the unknown into the excitment of possibility!"We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hey Kauffy, good thinking.. Will look again, very possible. Ordovicious, usually all bryozoans that I have seen, have those pits, (can't think of what they are called) You know what I mean? Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 That shape reminds me to the famous Cretaceous sponges that come from GB.They look very,very similar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ordovicious, usually all bryozoans that I have seen, have those pits,(can't think of what they are called) You know what I mean? They are called zooecium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Thanks, Solius Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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