ElToro Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 And friend of mine found this strange fossil in Boujdour South Morocco. Neither he nor I have any idea what it is... "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Cystoid ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I see a concretion. Not a fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 From what I can find, that area is Eocene? "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...
ElToro Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Concretion? Hmmm. Could be. Whoops, forget to include the age. 38-40myo. "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Concretion? Hmmm. Could be. Whoops, forget to include the age. 38-40myo. The only other thing I can think of it coprolite. "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...
jpc Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I'm in the concretion camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElToro Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Yea, it doesnt seem to be anything biological to me. My mate seems to think it could an embryo or turtle. I rekon there a little wishful thinking involved... "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 ... a lot of wishful thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElToro Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 And a smattering of pareidolia... Sorta like when I digging and I find a bone shaped rock I'm always excited! But then I get real. In the words of D Vader- "Search your feelings, you know it to be true" "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertramp Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I’m for concretion too….a botroydal one, with the greatest nucleous beeing greatly weathered; look at the pattern of the contact surface between the two principals masses: it resembles those between the hemispherical smaller ones in pic 1 ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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