Snowflake Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 can someone tell me what this is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DeepTimeIsotopes Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I'm not seeing anything that appears to be a fossil but you should wait for somebody more qualified than me to come around and take a look. Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 I'm not seeing anything that appears to be a fossil but you should wait for somebody more qualified than me to come around and take a look. look at the new picture ..and thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgcox Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 appears to be a piece of chert not a fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jersey Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 If you are asking about the specimen itself, there isn't much information given but just based on its overall appearance it may be quartz or quartzite that is iron stained. (Regarding the little red spot - that confuses me. How were those first two photos taken as the spot does not show up in red like that in the third photo? Were they taken perhaps using ultra violet light with the red spot fluorescing?. I kind of doubt that as it would normally provide a blue cast to the non-fluorescing portion.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 The first couple of photos look like it has been airbrushed to look like a dinosaur head. I tend to have a vivid imagination! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 The first couple of photos look like it has been airbrushed to look like a dinosaur head. I tend to have a vivid imagination! i did the 2 first pictures in black and white.....nothing els...i just made a corlor for that i thath was and eye..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 If you are asking about the specimen itself, there isn't much information given but just based on its overall appearance it may be quartz or quartzite that is iron stained. (Regarding the little red spot - that confuses me. How were those first two photos taken as the spot does not show up in red like that in the third photo? Were they taken perhaps using ultra violet light with the red spot fluorescing?. I kind of doubt that as it would normally provide a blue cast to the non-fluorescing portion.) i diddent do enything to the pictures, besides changing the corlors of the 2 first pictures...photoed them in diffent ankels....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 am just lost here ...dont know enything about this.... therefor am here :-) with the pro guys...just thath it was a wird looking thing :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jersey Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Based on what you said I believe it's not a fossil. Its either quartz or quartzite or chert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Based on what you said I believe it's not a fossil. Its either quartz or quartzite or chert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 It can be very hard to see the same details from a photo that you can see holding it in hand. Can you tell us what form you are seeing that made you think it could be a fossil to help us focus on whatever you are suggesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 i did the 2 first pictures in black and white.....nothing els...i just made a corlor for that i thath was and eye..... This seems to say that you think it could be a 'fossil head' of some kind; please rest assured that it is simply a suggestively shaped rock. "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...
dragonsfly Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I'm thinking chert too, but I see a whiteish (branching coral? bryazoa ?) impression in the right-center of the rock.(color pic 3 post 2) Also possible evidence in the "fissure" in the pointed end close-up. Am I alone in this? Welcome Snoflake. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkstyl Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I'm thinking chert too, but I see a whiteish (branching coral? bryazoa ?) impression in the right-center of the rock.(color pic 3 post 2) Also possible evidence in the "fissure" in the pointed end close-up. Am I alone in this? Welcome Snoflake. John I agree with you on "(branching coral? bryazoa ?) impression in the right-center of the rock.(color pic 3 post 2)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 thx guys :-) so it,s just a relly creepy stone he he :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I also noticed the bryozoan impression... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I think he is saying that it really is a fossil, but you were looking at it from the wrong end. It has a fossil in it. Bryozoa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 I think he is saying that it really is a fossil, but you were looking at it from the wrong end. It has a fossil in it. Bryozoa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa he he :-) good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 good eye catching the bryozoan piece. "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...
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