InsectariumPlus Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 So...may this be a Belemnite or I am completely in the wrong direction?! Sorry about the bad photo quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Certainly looks like one, and I can't think of any alternative that it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Where was it found? Can you take a picture of something familiar (ruler, coin, etc.) next to your object to give it scale. Location and age of deposit it came from are very important to get positive ID's on fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Looks like a partial rostrum, but I can't say for sure until you make a well-focussed photo of the fat end head on. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsectariumPlus Posted April 30, 2016 Author Share Posted April 30, 2016 Not sure of the exact location but the country is Macedonia. I'm sorry I don't have any info about the age deposit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 The structure in cross section does not look right for a belemnite. "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 May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 yeah, I agree with auspex. That white cross section is not at all belemnoid. They have very distinctive radiating crystal patterns on the inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Is the large round end also dark colored? Does a steel knife scratch the dark and light areas? The object almost looks like a broken piece of painted or glazed ceramic. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 yeah, I agree with auspex. That white cross section is not at all belemnoid. They have very distinctive radiating crystal patterns on the inside. I concur. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Ludwigia,any chance of it being completely diagenetically altered? as long as i'm here a little offering from JM: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095632 edit: might as well throw in this one: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/28/10073.full and(plattenkalk,everybody pay attention): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230194175_First_record_of_a_belemnite_preserved_with_beaks_arms_and_ink_sac_from_the_Nusplingen_Lithographic_Limestone_Kimmeridgian_SW_Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 The bullet shape is like of a belemnitid rostrum but the transverse section not reveals the radiating fibrous structure and the sometimes visible concentric rings. The radial pattern (prisms of calcite due to the mineralization process in time) and the concentric pattern (concentric rings due to the growth of the belemnite) have to be present. Here is a Belemnites rostrum in transverse section from my collection : " 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...
Guguita2104 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Strange... I also don't think you have a belemnite there, but it seems very interesting. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 looks like the tip of a deer antler "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...
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