Nörsk Grunner Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 (edited) Found this yesterday near Delaware Water Gap. At first I thought maybe a moth. However the shape and texture appears to be more feather like. Could this be from a small bird? Edited February 26, 2017 by Nörsk Grunner Photo was blurry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Your fossil is a brachiopod. 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...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Wow Tony that was fast. Thank you. I will find different one for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Found this in Northwest North Dakota near Powerslake. Is it a bone fossil? I have more pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 A piece of chert or jasper, not a fossil. 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...
howard_l Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Looks more like siltstone to me 1 Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Wow thank you I've always thought it was a bone. Ok I have one more for today If anyone has any idea about this stone. Found near Delaware Water Gap, PA along the Brodhead river right before it enters the Delaware river. It's a strange rock could it be a fossil? fits perfectly into the fist of a hand . Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jeffrey P Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 That first one is a spiriferoid brachiopod, probably Devonian or Silurian in age, but I'm not sure about the species. The last rock appears to be a rock with interesting mineral formations on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I agree the first is a kind of Spirifer. 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Is the one on the second photo the other side of the first ? The photo is a little blurry. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fifbrindacier Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 OK, thanks. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 The first fossil is a brachiopod. It looks remarkably similar to Spirifer (I'm blanking on the name now...) sp. from the Silurian aged Rose Hill, Rochester, and McKenzie Formations so I'd go tentatively with that. Edit: actually the Ordovician brachiopod Platystrophia sp. looks similar as well, which would mean this isn't a spiriferid but rather a heteromorphy. The next one is siltstone, likely from the same formation of rocks. The last one looks to be veins of quartz/calcite in a limestone. I don't know what formations are up that way, but further south in the state the formation I'd go with is the Chambersburg Limestone, a middle Ordovician unit. Edit: I can't find it now, but anyways this report has a lot of info on the Silurian and Devonian fauna and flora of the local units: https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1173/report.pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone2stone Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Hello, Not trying to be bossie but, it would be easier on you personally to post different specimens on different thread. Easier on us as well. BTW: One of your specimens has the general appearance of a coprolite. Jess B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 11 hours ago, howard_l said: Looks more like siltstone to me Agreed. The laminated look may be more the result of weathering. Certainly not bone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 11 hours ago, Nörsk Grunner said: Wow thank you I've always thought it was a bone. Ok I have one more for today If anyone has any idea about this stone. Found near Delaware Water Gap, PA along the Brodhead river right before it enters the Delaware river. It's a strange rock could it be a fossil? fits perfectly into the fist of a hand . Any ideas? I can't explain why, but rocks with a similar arrangement of crystals seem to be fairly common. In my opinion the odds of it being a coprolite are exceedingly slim. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 7 hours ago, bone2stone said: Hello, Not trying to be bossie but, it would be easier on you personally to post different specimens on different thread. Easier on us as well. BTW: One of your specimens has the general appearance of a coprolite. Jess B. Wow this is a great knowledgeable group thank you all for responding. I look forward to ID new stones in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMP Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 By the way, have you found any plant fossils up your way? PA is famous for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nörsk Grunner Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 I recently developed rockhound fever disease. So I have not found many fossils... yet. I hope to be so lucky and will post any findings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 6 minutes ago, Nörsk Grunner said: I recently developed rockhound fever disease. Welcome to the clinic! We do not cure You but will help You to live with the symptoms-- The need to go fossil hunting every chance You get and add more and more to the collection! 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...
Darktooth Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Welcome to Fossiholics Anonymous! This is a 12 Step Program. If you don't immediately find fossils, walk 12 steps and look again! 3 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 6 minutes ago, Darktooth said: Welcome to Fossiholics Anonymous! This is a 12 Step Program. If you don't immediately find fossils, walk 12 steps and look again! 2 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...
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