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Hello!

 

I received this fossil from a friend - He could not remember the NAME of the fruit - only that it is agatized fruit, from Queensland, Australia, and that it is a bit scarce.  Can anyone give an idea? It looks a bit "squashed" - but very interesting!

 

Thanks for looking!


 

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Looks like an agate or chert nodule, to me. :unsure: 

Sorry, but I'm not seeing fruit, or any fossil here.  

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I agree with Fossildude19

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Definitely mineral , but giving the shape ans mineral a story is the cool part, even if its just a stone it gave you the inspiration to look father , and so will the next person , definitely an agatized plum fossil. Wink wink ;)

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Geological for me too.

 

The chances of fossilised fruit flesh is really unlikely (as with animal flesh) as it would rot very quickly except under exceptional circumstances although the seeds are common. :) 

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It looks to be a geological wonder to me, so I agree with the others. I would like to compare with the biconoid / multiconoid structures.

 

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On 11/7/2017 at 2:50 AM, Dpaul7 said:

Hello!

 

I received this fossil from a friend - He could not remember the NAME of the fruit - only that it is agatized fruit, from Queensland, Australia, and that it is a bit scarce.  Can anyone give an idea? It looks a bit "squashed" - but very interesting!

 

Thanks for looking!


 

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Can we get more focused images of the sides? It really looks like a pentagonal thunderegg core.

 

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Gentlemen and ladies!

 

Thank you for your kind responses!  I am attaching a file - if I might - on fossil fruits in Australia! It seems there ARE fossil fruits.  I send a message to my friend asking about this piece he sent - He said he bought it about 20 years ago; and there was an article from an Australian journal that accompanied it explaining about the piece. He had sadly lost the article - and does not remember the fruit name.  He DID say the piece was agatized!

I would like to thank one and all for their input - The Thunder Egg post was very interesting! Also the odd vertebrae-like pieces found in New Mexico!  It could very well be that this was described as "fruit" to make a sale!  It is an interesting piece to me, and I appreciate the comments!  I have not studied fossils since the late 1960s... so I must relearn a lot! 

One thing I find to be sad... when I was a kid, we ALL went looking for minerals, fossils, insects, looked at the stars & planets, etc.  We wanted to know all about them!  Many kids today just do not have these interests... too absorbed in video games!  (Just a random thought from an old fogey!)

Fossil_fruit_of_the_Macadamieae_(Proteaceae)_in_the_Tertiary_of_eastern_Australia.pdf

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Unfortunately, none of the figures in the paper you provided look like your item. :( 

I think that your friend may have been misled (whether intentionally or unintentionally, is anyone's guess. ) as to it's identity.

It is an interesting item, but I don't see any resemblance to the fruit fossils pictured in the paper. :unsure: 

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Agreed, Fossildude19 - I thought the paper might be interesting to some folks is all.  I'm thinking it is just an odd nodule!  Interesting as a mineral specimen, perhaps!

My friend also sent me Austalites... I was VERY happy to get those!

 

 

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Australites is interesting. :)

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3 hours ago, Dpaul7 said:

Gentlemen and ladies!

 

Thank you for your kind responses!  I am attaching a file - if I might - on fossil fruits in Australia! It seems there ARE fossil fruits.  I send a message to my friend asking about this piece he sent - He said he bought it about 20 years ago; and there was an article from an Australian journal that accompanied it explaining about the piece. He had sadly lost the article - and does not remember the fruit name.  He DID say the piece was agatized!

I would like to thank one and all for their input - The Thunder Egg post was very interesting! Also the odd vertebrae-like pieces found in New Mexico!  It could very well be that this was described as "fruit" to make a sale!  It is an interesting piece to me, and I appreciate the comments!  I have not studied fossils since the late 1960s... so I must relearn a lot! 

One thing I find to be sad... when I was a kid, we ALL went looking for minerals, fossils, insects, looked at the stars & planets, etc.  We wanted to know all about them!  Many kids today just do not have these interests... too absorbed in video games!  (Just a random thought from an old fogey!)

Fossil_fruit_of_the_Macadamieae_(Proteaceae)_in_the_Tertiary_of_eastern_Australia.pdf

Interesting paper.  Like others, I would not have expected there would be much chance to find fossilized fruit, but there it is.  I wonder if this kind of preservation is unique to Australia or whether we should be scouring Oligocene and Miocene deposits elsewhere for similar specimens?

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