KimTexan Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 I found this out at Mineral Wells. I think it is a mineralization pattern, but I wanted to see if anyone else had any insight or could confirm that to be the case. Most everything I have found has been crinoids or sea shell in nature. If it is fossil it doesn't really match with anything else I have found there. The other sides are just yellow to cream colored stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 I think your right with mineral staining, maybe from iron. “...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...
KimTexan Posted October 20, 2017 Author Share Posted October 20, 2017 It looked like it could be a leaf or fan coral type thing or something. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 7 minutes ago, KimTexan said: It looked like it could be a leaf or fan coral type thing or something. Thanks. Better to have picked up a rock than to have left a fossil! Keep looking, there is more to be found out there! “...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...
ynot Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 The shape is what is called a conchoidal fracture with some hackle fringe. This is a common break of silicate rich rock. 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...
Fossildude19 Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Yup. Mineral staining with Hackle fringe/conchoidal fracturing. 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...
abyssunder Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 " 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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