waller1 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Hi all. I am new to this forum. Please help me to identify fully fossilized Tusk. Line Chrager is not displayed. Size 40х55х125 mm. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Sorry but it is not a tusk. It may be a sponge. Where was it found? 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...
waller1 Posted September 18, 2017 Author Share Posted September 18, 2017 In Kaliningrad. Very similar to the Tusk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Welcome to the Forum. Your item has no Schreger Lines visible/present. Not a tusk, unfortunately. Looks more like a dense piece of flint or chert. 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...
ynot Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Looks more like a dense piece of flint or chert. The texture and fracture are wrong for a quartzite like flint or chert. 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...
caterpillar Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Take a look at polypiers http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 So, possibly some sort of coral? Polypary noun, plural polyparies. 1. The common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, as corals. 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...
JohnBrewer Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Rugose coral I think. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 4 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said: Rugose coral I think. I can go along with rugose. 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...
abyssunder Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 I think it's a rudist lower valve. I suspect it being a Vaccinites species. (polished end cut) samples from here sample from here " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waller1 Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 I thank all those who responded. I would like to cancel that this object is completely mineralized. In fact, it's a stone. Here are some more photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Stones are made up of minerals. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waller1 Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 Oh sure. This stone scratches the glass. Obviously organic substituted silicon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Which would make it probably chert. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 8 hours ago, waller1 said: In fact, it's a stone. Here's a petrified rudist from Upper Cretaceous of Romania, in my collection. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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