Pterosaur Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Hello! Is this anything at all or just a rock? Found in Texas City dike. Thanks! Lauren "I am a part of all that I have met." - Lord Alfred Tennyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 my guess is rock "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...
Pterosaur Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Darn "I am a part of all that I have met." - Lord Alfred Tennyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Possibly Pidock Clam borings in lithified sediment. "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...
tmaier Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 It does look like some boring creature made this hole, but the piddick hole is normally of uniform diameter throughout. This one is really weird because it is small at the opening, and widens out like a teardrop. Could it be an organism that burrows in when it is small, and then as it grows, it creates a larger living chamber, trapping itself inside the rock? I don't know what organism that could be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Opps, I think I just solved my own mystery. The diagonal cross section of a cylinder creates a teardrop shape. It might be that the weathering is cutting the piddock hole at an angle. My piddock holes normally look less worn. Here are two piddock holes in cross section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Looks like a seed pod. Nature sure does love to make one think... Still a cool rock ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) In the first pic. top center, what does that white stuff look like within the crevice? And it looks like the remainder of something in the third hole on the left. Edited October 1, 2014 by caldigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I think that while stuff in the top hole is some shell material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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