Thekillertrout Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) Hello all! This one might be a bit boring to the community at large (maybe not) but I found it in my yard years ago and always wondered what it was. Thanks to any and all who look or chime in. Trout Edited September 6, 2017 by Thekillertrout Add pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Where was this found, city state ? What size is it? 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...
fifbrindacier Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 What's it's size ? "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...
Thekillertrout Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 City of Puyallup in Washington State. 4.5" wide and 3" tall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Welcome to the forum. Can someone with good geologic maps tell us the age of the strata in that area? Without knowing yet my first guess is calamites stem but it isn't often preserved in three dimensions like that and there is no segmentation showing in this piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 I was thinking recent tree or plant roots. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 It sure does have that Calamites look about it... but the geo map shows nothing but Tertiary and Quaternary in that area. However, horsetails still survive today, so I wonder if you have a relatively young fossil of a horsetail of some sort? Definitely hang onto it. Someone might be able to get you further. How hard is the matrix (rock)? Hard, or loosely consolidated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 I think it's a brachiopod, thought I saw one like this on a previous post, though the name of the thread slips my mind.... “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Looks horsetaily to me? RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Looks like an amplexus solitary horn coral...but sediments from that area would be too young for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thekillertrout Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Thanks for all the replies! Before posting this I had done the kind of google research we all do when we don't know something, and I found pictures of horsetails that had an obvious resembelence to this fossil but could not find any indication of the segmenting typically found on horsetails and the seemingly apparent stem and root structure made me wonder if it was a flower or seed pod of some sort. There are other fossils, presumably of the same kind in the rock but I don't know how to go about freeing them. Should I just leave it alone? Trout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 7 minutes ago, Thekillertrout said: Should I just leave it alone? I would do so, nature seems to have done the prepping for you on the main one! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 19 hours ago, Thekillertrout said: City of Puyallup in Washington State. 4.5" wide and 3" tall Welcome to the forum The size you've indicated with a ruler is what we call the matrix which is the rock or stone the fossil is on. When people here ask what size it is they mean the size of the fossil. As you provided an international scale (good call, coins for example aren't that useful) we can work out pretty much the size of the fossil. Not that I can help with your particular fossil. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thekillertrout Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 30 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said: I would do so, nature seems to have done the prepping for you on the main one! Ok thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 I would leave it as is too. There may not be enough length there to see any segmentation... It looks like the base of a stalk with root system, but I'm not sure if there should be denser segmentation toward the base of the stalk, so I could be wrong. More research! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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