Cullgirl Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Please help me identify this great find.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 No pictures, try this: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/40349-putting-pictures-in-posts/ "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cullgirl Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Any thought on this?? anyone?? I have one much larger too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I believe the pencil like objects are called Belemnites. Very nice find. Where did you get it? The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cullgirl Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Excavating to build my new house in Newfoundland canada.... I have never seen nothing like this. I have no idea about fossils and would love to no more about what I have here. Really don't know how to find out anything about this other then ask!!...Thanks everyone for your opinions, although they all vary differently.. I have searched the internet for days and have come across nothing that resembles this at all.. which makes me quite curious and my 9 year old son believes he is a avid fossil hunter and this is his prize position...He spends all his free time combing the beaches and back yards for fascinating rocks and fossils... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I'm afraid the shapes are too irregular for belemnites. If you blow it up on screen, it seems to be a sedimentological feature, with shattered pieces of an earlier layer cemented together by the next one. Interesting find and good photo! Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I agree with tarquin. A stone, but a very interesting one of the type you don't see too often. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I believe it may have started out as something organic, maybe echinoderm spine pickup sticks . But in and off itself I think it is a trace fossil. Cool looking. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The features are very irregular; so much so that I can't quite reconcile them with anything organic... They are more irregularly 'blade-like' than 'pencil-like': "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...
Herb Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 It looks like a turbulent hash of very worn and broken pelecypod shells. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 For me looks like some clam/shell fragments cemented together. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cullgirl Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 This is the back side of the rock!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The rock looks very mineralized so it very well may be a mineral, barite will give a bladed crystal. It would help to know the age if there is any way for you to look that up. Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 very odd "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 looks to me like a breccia of some sort. maybe a shaly layer ripped up and re-deposited by a storm. i see no fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I'm afraid the shapes are too irregular for belemnites. If you blow it up on screen, it seems to be a sedimentological feature, with shattered pieces of an earlier layer cemented together by the next one. Interesting find and good photo! I agree complertely with TqB.. and at the risk of sounding like a geologist, I will throw this term out at ya... imbricated conglomerate. try this on for size... and rememebr that the drawing on the site is more perfect than Mother Nature. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/283415/imbricate-bedding No fossils in there, not belemnites nor clams. It is a sedimaentary structure. It is a very cool rock. Hold on to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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