InquisitiveOsteology Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Maybe someone can help with a positive ID for a few things I found while walking along Lake Michigan? They are very tiny and nothing too spectacular... but it would be nice to know what I stumbled across. Thanks! 1. Tiny crinoid fossil? The side view is particularly interesting to me, because it resembles an artifact (bead) moreso than other images I found online of crinoid fossils. 2. Claw of some sort? I'm still trying to learn the grooves characteristic of various claws and teeth, so I wouldn't be surprised if I misidentified this. 3. Fossil of a marine arthropod? 4. Bone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 the only one I can ID for sure is the crinoid segment in the 1st pix. the rest do not look like fossils to me. "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...
lissa318 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 2 looks like a pebble to me but the 3rd is interesting! 4 may be a small water worn bit of something but hard to say for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil Claw Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Agree number 1 is a crinoid segment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I would say:number 1 is a water-worn crinoid columnal; number 2 is a water-worn rock fragment (not a fossil); and number 3 is a tangential slice across a segment of crinoid stem still encased in rock. Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I think the first is a limestone plate of a crinoid (sea lily). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'm with Oxytropidoceras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I agree with Herb on 1 and with Paul H on 1&3 . " 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...
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