MLO Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Please help identify this possible foot/toe fossil find. Found in near Edwards Plateau in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Can you take a clearer picture of the end? I'm not seeing bone here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Raptor Lover Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Hmm doesn't really look like bone to me. Maybe just a suggestive rock "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Welcome to the Forum. Unfortunately, it really doesn't look anything like dinosaur toe bones. MORE IMAGES HERE My vote on your item is for limestone. Keep looking, though. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Looking at the end, though not my forte, I'm thinking something in the realm of sponge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said: How old is your picture Tim! I know they finally published the paper resurrecting the name Brontosaurus; Did they confirm him to be amphibious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLO Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 2 hours ago, Raptor Lover said: Hmm doesn't really look like bone to me. Maybe just a suggestive rock It is not bone material, it is rock/minerals... Replacement petrification? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLO Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 We'll keep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 18 minutes ago, MLO said: It is not bone material, it is rock/minerals... Replacement petrification? When a bone gets "fossilized" it is replaced with minerals but usually will keep the structure of the bone. That structure is not visible in Your rock. When the bone is buried but rots out and the whole is then filled with other minerals the only ways to identify it is by the external appearance and shape. Yours does not have the correct shape to identify as a bone. It has a vague resemblance to a "toe" but it does not look like a toe bone. Natural weathering processes will create a lot of rock that looks like something familiar when it is not. These pseudo-fossils can be very convincing to a person that is not familiar with the caricature of rocks. Tony 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Definitely not the toe/foot of a dinosaur. While it looks suggestive with some cracks that vaguely resemble scales. Those are just natural cracks in the rock. So it's probably just a rock. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I can see a super slim possibility that it's a weathered natural cast of a bone. That being where the original material was somehow completely replaced by insoluble sediment. Proving that would be the tricky part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 7 hours ago, FossilDudeCO said: How old is your picture Tim! I know they finally published the paper resurrecting the name Brontosaurus; Did they confirm him to be amphibious? I have no idea - just got one from an image search - wanted to show as many different possibilities as in one picture as I could find. Honestly, I didn't even read it. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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