Stuff acquired from my parents (one item from Italy)

[Monica]

Hello again!

 

Please find below some pictures of fossils/rocks that my parents have recently given to me (they were happy to get rid of this "junk" and they figured that I might be able to get some answers regarding their identity here on TFF).

 

Item #1: My mom acquired this piece when she was visiting family in Italy, specifically my dad's hometown of Vittorio Veneto, Treviso, Veneto.  She thinks it might be a piece of fossilized wood - what do you think?

 

Item #2: I believe my dad found this rock, but I have no idea where - maybe on one of his walks around town in the Greater Toronto Area here in Ontario, Canada?  I know it's not a fossil, but can anyone tell me what type of rock/crystal it is?  My daughter Viola is interested in keeping it because it is quite pretty...

 

Item #3: I think my dad picked up this rock as well, probably locally, too, just like the piece above.  I'm certain it's just a rock, and not a very pretty one, but I want my identification to be confirmed before I get rid of it.

 

Thanks a bunch!

 

Monica

[Darktooth]

Hi Monica. Pic # 1 does look like it could be petrified wood but not 100 percent sure. I think #2 could be the mineral sphalerite. It usually is found darker in color bot can be as light as amber. I obtained a piece frim a Canadian collector many years ago. I lost the information on where he found it but he did collect it in Canada. I don't have any idea on #3 but it looks neat.

 

Dave

[Ludwigia]

I'm not so sure if that mineral is sphalerite, although the color goes in the direction of "honigspat", as we call it over here. You used to be able to find tons of it at the Guelph dolime quarry. I'd be more inclined to go with calcite colored by iron impurities. Your rock looks like a rock, maybe from a karst formation. And that could very well be pet wood, although I can't see any grain structure there, but sometimes the mineralization goes so far as to blot them out.

[bone2stone]

Monica,

Specimen #1

I believe it is wood but so many Pseudos to be found, difficulties of being positive are also there.

 

Specimen #2

I too see what appears to me as a form of calcite.

 

Specimen #3

This one appears to be a couple of inner chambers of an ammonite broken away from the main body.

A little beat up but...

 

Jess B.

[abyssunder]

3. -  or maybe Baculites articulated segments

 

[bone2stone]

10 hours ago, abyssunder said:

3. -  or maybe Baculites articulated segments

 

I concur. Something in the cephalopod family.

Baculite is very possible.

Jess B.