BoneGurl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi!! Oops not trilobite - coprolite?? Egg?? Went hunting again & out of all the finds this one has me stumped & wondering! This "egg' is apprx 3"x2" give or take any thoughts? Was a few good inches in as I put my hand in as far as I could wayy down stream. Thanks for any ideas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have been to big brook a few times and never found anything like that. I would rule out trilobite. I have found coprolites there but the shark ones dont look like that. Though it could have come from a different creature. It definately looks interesting. I would like to hear what other members have to say. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) Its a very cool looking ....what ever it is. I only see a very weathered nobule....But like it either way. I have spent thousands of hours in the brook and never seen anything like that.....I love it. I collect odd looking things from the brooks....I would trade something for it...is there any kind of fossils you would like from the brooks.....PM me if interested. Tony Edited April 12, 2015 by njfossilhunter TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneGurl Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 I do think I have some coprolites and they are much different, I have a few questionables tho the 'egg' really throws me for a loop. Here are a few more pics w what I assume is coprolite for comparison. I will think about the trade idea tho I have so many oddities I am partial to my dino egg LOL while I went through my little bag I found a baby version of the same egg from same area/trip. Rather intersting find yet again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Big Brook has a lot of iron which causes some really cool (and sometimes frustrating) concretions; I believe that's what most of these are though I am curious about the one on the right in the second picture. I don't see anything to suggest coprilite and if any are, they definitely aren't shark as they make a spiral pattern. Still, cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) Sorry....I don't see any coprolite in the other pictures you posted.....Do you have any coprolites that you can post. I will post some coprolites from my collection later this evening to give you a better idea what why look like. I have many things that look like coprolites as well...mother nature does have a sense of humor when collecting from the brooks. Edited April 12, 2015 by njfossilhunter TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 The lines circling your find suggest a sedimentary past, something you shouldn't see on an egg or a coprolite. A rock rolled in a stream leaves it's corners behind pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 What is in the first picture of this thread looks similar to those of post #4(left),but I don`t think they are coprolites or eggs.Sorry. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneGurl Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) They are one in the same in regards to hotos, and they aren't lines but surface cracks. I've reviewed hundreds of dino poop pics as well lol, but I'd love to see what your coproites look like for comparison if you have shark, as well as egg pics.I also would think they would be in large abundance if it were a mere rock w no corners, for the tons of hours I have spent in the brook as have others. Thanks ahead of time for posting back your photos of 'true' coprolites and eggs that fall similar to what Im look for. Edited April 13, 2015 by BoneGurl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 That's the beauty of jersey concretions, each one is unique and never before seen It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diceros Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Rather than a coprolite, egg, or even concretion, I'd guess that was a rip-up clast of phosphatized sediment, reworked from an underlying bed into a marine transgressive lag. While it sat on the sea floor, it was bored into by several small piddock (pholadid) clams, forming the trace fossil vase-shaped boring (also often made in phosphatized wood) called Gastrochaenolites lapidicus Kelly & Bromley, 1984. Where I've seen them, they're usually just on one side of a rounded, flat clast. They're often common as dirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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