Pamdivalerio Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Found this among my great great grandmothers treasures...looks like a partially peeled orange...but it's hard as a rock...the other side (inside portion) looks like small stone where a pit would be (but not if an orange or lemon). Is there such a find out there? Examples of other petrified fruit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 It is either a manmade carved and painted fruit or an unusually colored concretion/nodule. Does a knife blade scratch it? If it doesn't than it is probably in the quartz family and less likely to be a carved fruit. Does your fingernail scratch it? If so it might be gypsum a common material for making carved fruit. Edit: Thanks to BobWill for correcting my mistake. Knife blades don't scratch quartz. 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...
CraigHyatt Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 I've got one just like it in my fridge. ;-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 It is a water rounded quartz geode, it should scratch glass. The yellow outside is chalcedony. Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 A fossilized citrus fruit would be the find of the century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamdivalerio Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Thank you all for your input…and humor…i tried scratching it…nothing showed…don't believe it's painted…it does look to be quartzed as the stone side has crystalized "juice cylinders"…I took real closeup shots with camera and wasn't able to show here due to limited upload…so will hang onto it, and decide thru further research what to do with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 I agree with the others. Quartz geode. I'd hold onto it though, since it makes for a good conversation piece with the amazimg resemblance to an orange. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 That's a great looking geode you have there. Welcome to the forum John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
300BLK Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Very interesting find with vibrant, interesting colors. I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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