Falconer Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 This is my first post to the forum & hope I may be able to receive some information on this find. All I know for sure about this item is that my grandfather found it many years ago somewhere here in Montana. He was a bit of a rock hound & collected interesting items from all over the state. This one in particular has always held my interest & I was hoping members of this forum may be able to help figure out what it is. Thanks for your time. T.J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falconer Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Couple more photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) Looks like a piece of flowstone - stalagmite/stalagtite to me. Regards, PS: Welcome to the Forum. Edited October 22, 2014 by Fossildude19 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Perhaps a large soda straw that started filling in at a later time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Welcome to TFF -- it is a great place for those who love ancient remains.. I have no idea what exactly you have, but many on TFF might. NICE photos, large, clear, and good coverage. It looks tangentially similar to some I saw 2 weeks back at a NFD Fossil show. I found the process of creating this golf sized object intriguing. I'll watch this thread and learn. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falconer Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Interesting. Thanks for the responses. If more photos help with ID I'm happy to provide them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Welcome! Strange piece. I haven't a clue in this.....sorry I kind of reminds me of a petrified lycopod, but even that is a stretch...... ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Welcome to TFF -- it is a great place for those who love ancient remains.. I have no idea what exactly you have, but many on TFF might. NICE photos, large, clear, and good coverage. It looks tangentially similar to some I saw 2 weeks back at a NFD Fossil show. I found the process of creating this golf sized object intriguing. I'll watch this thread and learn. AlteriaSp2.JPGAlteriaSp.JPG What's "NFD?" Can you tell me more about this awesome specimen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Mineralized cone? "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I agree with others that it has many of the features flowstone/geothermal minerals would present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Yes, I concur. It is one of those mineral, kinda, you-know.... things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 What's "NFD?" Can you tell me more about this awesome specimen? NFD is National Fossil Day, celebrated across the US in October every year. The NFD organization teamed with The Florida Paleonotology and the South West Florida Museum to host an all day fossil fair on October 4th. This Aturia, a member of the Cephalopoda family, was native to Florida during the Eocene to middle Miocene. To me it looks like a Nautilus. Roger Portell, and other authors have a paper out "Cephalopoda, Eocene to Middle Miocene", available on this web page. http://floridapaleosociety.com/publications/page/2/ Roger brought 2-3 of the actual specimens to the NFD fair, and you see a couple of photos that I took. As Roger tells it, some fossil hunters found these strange nodules, about the size of golf_balls, and asked for his opinion. He decided to split one in half and found the Aturia inside. Evidently, the juvenile animal dies, and floats around in ancient seas, being covered by a ball of hydrozoans. These were found is Hamilton county Florida from the lower Oligocene Suwannee Limestone. Makes me want to go hunting nodules in the shell-beds of Hamilton county!! The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Would flowstone have a pattern of uniformly sized bumps in a regular grid-like arrangement? If I found this in an Ordovician deposit I would be fairly confident in calling it a Beatricia (a type of stromatoporoid). Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 NFD is National Fossil Day, celebrated across the US in October every year. The NFD organization teamed with The Florida Paleonotology and the South West Florida Museum to host an all day fossil fair on October 4th. This Aturia, a member of the Cephalopoda family, was native to Florida during the Eocene to middle Miocene. To me it looks like a Nautilus. Roger Portell, and other authors have a paper out "Cephalopoda, Eocene to Middle Miocene", available on this web page. http://floridapaleosociety.com/publications/page/2/ Roger brought 2-3 of the actual specimens to the NFD fair, and you see a couple of photos that I took. As Roger tells it, some fossil hunters found these strange nodules, about the size of golf_balls, and asked for his opinion. He decided to split one in half and found the Aturia inside. Evidently, the juvenile animal dies, and floats around in ancient seas, being covered by a ball of hydrozoans. These were found is Hamilton county Florida from the lower Oligocene Suwannee Limestone. Makes me want to go hunting nodules in the shell-beds of Hamilton county!! Fantastic - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Would flowstone have a pattern of uniformly sized bumps in a regular grid-like arrangement? If I found this in an Ordovician deposit I would be fairly confident in calling it a Beatricia (a type of stromatoporoid). Don I agree. See here http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/2010/06/stromatoporids.html?m=1 ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Would flowstone have a pattern of uniformly sized bumps in a regular grid-like arrangement? If I found this in an Ordovician deposit I would be fairly confident in calling it a Beatricia (a type of stromatoporoid). Don Points well made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Would flowstone have a pattern of uniformly sized bumps in a regular grid-like arrangement? If I found this in an Ordovician deposit I would be fairly confident in calling it a Beatricia (a type of stromatoporoid). Don Put me down with that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 My other guess was petrified Maki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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