edd Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 i have no ideea what this is...found it in a creek from Gainesville. " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I am afraid that I don't know what it is but it's beautiful! Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 i have no ideea what this is...found it in a creek from Gainesville. That is uncommonly strange, 'edd'. Please let us know what you find out about the object. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 im still going with fish ballast bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Strange looking, but oddly familiar. Will be interested to see what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 to me, that could actually be something good. i think i'd have to show it to an expert on fossils from the area in which it was found. looks almost like external "skin" structure of something. i'd guess that it's the broken-off head of a paleosharkilizard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I like its look. Actually very pretty color and texture, but I am at a loss as to what it is. Can't wait to hear when you do find its ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Elasmo "nose cartilage"??? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jax Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 It looks like BMores pic #2. My first thought was that it was a chuck of a root of a tooth or somthing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 i took it to the museum some time ago and they didnt know either what it is. " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I agree with jax and bmore. Looks so very much like bmore's fish ballast bone although yours is heavily mineralized. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Owens Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I agree with jax and bmore. Looksso very much like bmore's fish ballast bone although yours is heavily mineralized. Love the color! Haven't a clue what it is. It will be up to the resident Florida experts to id. It radiates like my pearl avatar, but I know it's not a pearl. I will be looking forward to an id.Thanks for posting. -----"Your Texas Connection!"------ Fossils: Windows to the past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kauffy Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 just throwing this out here: what about a carpal, bone from the ankle articulation of an aminal such as a horse? "Turn the fear of the unknown into the excitment of possibility!"We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 What a cool find! I love how it has been replaced by minerals. I wish I could tell you what it was. I hope someone can help you IDit. Let us know what you find out. It looks like the head on my little whale sculpture I have here in front of me. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serack Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 to me, that could actually be something good. i think i'd have to show it to an expert on fossils from the area in which it was found. looks almost like external "skin" structure of something. i'd guess that it's the broken-off head of a paleosharkilizard. I was actually thinking something similar. for some reason, the kinda polished area with a ridge around it makes me think of a dermal dentical. But it's very large for one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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