westiesroo Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 I'm pretty sure it's just some kind of weird rock thing but I have been hanging on to it just in case I could find someone that could tell me for sure. I know it is hard to tell from bad pictures but here it is. I thought it was an egg baby... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Looked like a rock to me until I saw the third picture from the left. I've never seen anything like that before. Location of the find? ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westiesroo Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 This is the other side...Black Canyon City AZ. I live in the rural desert and have a natural wash that runs through the property. I'm going to try and send a picture of the other side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Any idea on the age Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westiesroo Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 If you are asking me about the age I don't even know what it is. I wish I could tell you something about it other then where I found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Oh-oh... looks like a job for the Way-Back Time Machine. Good thing I just changed the oil in this thing... Please adjust your goggles and hold on to the hand rail. Arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, please. Where on this time map did you find this object? http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space§ionnav=state&name=Arizona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Black Canyon City, AZ appears to sit in the Precambrian area of the state. If it's Precambrian it could only be algae if it's a fossil. 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...
westiesroo Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Yep, Looks like I fall on the Precambrian brown at 505 but I wish I had a more accurate map because it varies so much between colors on the map where I am. That was a pretty fun ride! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westiesroo Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 It could also be Tertiary. More likely because of what I see in it. Pretty sure its not algae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 That limestone you have looks marine and it doesn't look metamorphosized enough to be as old as precambrian. It is rounded, and I think it was either brought to were you found it, or it was carried by water. Objects like that are called a "float". It would be difficult to say what time period it came from. I don't see any fossils that I'm familiar with in your specimen. Those hard brown parts of it look like chert, a mineral deposit that is commonly found in limestone. The chert could be a sign of some fossil, or there could be something I missed, but I think it is just a marine deposit of limestone. Your area is very geologically confusing, because of the uplift and erosion has taken old strata and lifted it up and created a mess of the past 600 million years, then mixed it around and flowed it out into fairly recent alluvial deposits. Maybe this isn't a fossil, but they do occur in your area, so keep looking! http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery§ionnav=search&period_id=&state_id=16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westiesroo Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 It is geologically confusing. I do find most of the weird stuff in the little ravine out front and the dry riverbed out back. I will keep looking and be back if I think I have found anything. Thank you so much for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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