chuckwelt Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Hi, I just joined the forum. What a great website. My family lives in Maryland, USA, and so far we have mostly enjoyed collecting fossil shark teeth along the Calvert Cliffs area of the Chesapeake Bay. However on a recent walk in a stream located in Central Maryland my 8 year old daughter found this fossil. So far my online research leads me to believe this is a fossilized rib bone. A Maryland Fossil website says most Dinosaurs found in Maryland are from the late Triassic to late Cretaceous period. Hadrosaur fossils are some of the fossils found in this area. What do you all think it is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katfish61 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 (edited) Whatever it turns out to be, it's so cool a little girl found it!! That she even had the eye to spot it, just knowing it looked different from the rest of the ROCKS.....this is a future fossil hunter in the making. Second generation FF member perhaps.... Edited September 21, 2014 by Katfish61 Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Welcome to the forum! The Dino-dudes should be around to look any minute. 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...
lissa318 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Welcome from PA! Hope you get an ID soon and congrats to your daughter!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arion Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 (edited) Quite possible it could be a dinosaur, but I'm wondering if it might be from a marine animal. More specifics about its location might be useful (at least what county); what were the surrounding rocks (clay? shale? sandstone? something else?). Maryland has a pretty diverse geological record, but a large part of it is after the Cretaceous. - Arion Edited September 21, 2014 by Arion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrannosaurusRex Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I have a feeling it's whale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 It reminds me of a deer's rib. "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...
Troodon Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Does not look dinosaurian or marine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Agree with Auspex. Deer or other mammal rib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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