Harry Pristis Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Who can identify this fossil? It is from the latest Pliocene or Early Pleistocene. It was recovered from sediments also containing fish fossils and land mammal fossils. Here's the image: This is NOT a coprolite, nor is it a fossilized cigar butt. If you know what it is, you will know its origin. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I absolutely KNOW I've seen something like it before... I'm going to try to pull it from my brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 hmm if it wasnt bone i wouls say pine cone or something, but since its bone and has the layered look it is probley fish. Could be a part of a fish skull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I can't pull it out, I'm going to go with perhaps dolphin material. I'm thinking marine mammal for some reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
va paleo Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 is it pine cone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 If it is isn't a bone I'm thinking Conulariida or Connularids. I've seen it spelled both ways, I'm not sure the proper one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Conifer cone, fir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Conifer cone, fir Ditto; Fir cone. "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...
kenoakee Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 is it a "sequoia cone"?? One of the great charms of paleontology is that one never knows what will turn up where, or who will find it." Peter Dodson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenoakee Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 possibly "sequoia dakotensis"?? One of the great charms of paleontology is that one never knows what will turn up where, or who will find it." Peter Dodson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 hmm if it wasnt bone i wouls say pine cone or something, but since its bone and has the layered look it is probley fish. Could be a part of a fish skull Another golden kudo to bmorefossil! Tentative though his ID was, bmorefossil was the first to guess pine cone. This is, as best as I can tell, the core or cob of a pine cone with the pine nuts removed. The cobs which have been harvested by squirrels generally have little to nothing left of the wing-like anchors of the individual pine nuts. This cone is more likely to have lost its nuts to some other process, leaving behind the rough cob you see. It's possible that there were fir trees here in Florida in the Plio-Pleistocene, but there were no sequoias AFAIK. This cone is likely to be from a common pine still living in Florida such as the long-leaf pine. Perhaps some paleo-botanist here can expand on this. Thanks for participating! http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 nice find wish I had one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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