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Hello. My first time posting here. I am a new member. I found this today in Southern Florida. Does anyone have insight as to what this may be?

 

It is over 1 pound. I do not have a scale at the moment. Very hard and distinctive impressions that appear to be bug related.

Wow. Do you see the face too? Really unique. 

 

Kindly.

Stephanie

 

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Miocene_Mason Regular Member

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Welcome to the forum from Maryland! I agree with @ynot. 

P.s. I see the faces as well.

“...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,

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I agree with Tony.
Is the face something like this? :mellow:

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36 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Can you post a picture of the ends looking directly facing the holes?

Sure. Thanks everyone so far for your help!. I did further research. I came up with petrified palm wood. Thank you again! Hope the photo helps more.

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3 minutes ago, FossilExplorer said:

I came up with petrified palm wood.

As I said before it is a tube worm colony, not petrified wood or palm.

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It doesn't look like palm wood.  My first thoughts were marrow channels from interior of bone, that's why I wanted pictures of the end.

I have seen quite a bit of palm wood and have never seen any with open holes like that.

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1 hour ago, ynot said:

Welcome to TFF!

What You have looks like a tube worm colony.

Neat looking find.

And -Yes I see the face too.

Thank you very much.

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No doubt ,Tony was right.

 

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comparative image from here

 

Thank you for posting here. :)

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You guys are great! I found it in a swampy area where gators can be found. Just surface was showing. Is it old? Are they common? I really like the "vibes" I get from it.

 

12 hours ago, caldigger said:

It doesn't look like palm wood.  My first thoughts were marrow channels from interior of bone, that's why I wanted pictures of the end.

I have seen quite a bit of palm wood and have never seen any with open holes like that.

 

13 hours ago, ynot said:

Welcome to TFF!

What You have looks like a tube worm colony.

Neat looking find.

And -Yes I see the face too.

 

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2 hours ago, FossilExplorer said:

You guys are great! I found it in a swampy area where gators can be found. Just surface was showing. Is it old? Are they common? I really like the "vibes" I get from it.

 

 

 

Florida has a lot of fossil areas that range in age from early to late Cenozoic era. 

We would need a more accurate location to tell how old it could be. 

That type of animal is also extant (still lives in modern oceans).

Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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1 hour ago, FossilExplorer said:

It was found at Halipatokee State Park.

Now You just need to wait for some of the Florida members to chime in with an age of that area.:thumbsu:

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Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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Argh, I've been looking at the picture for several minutes now... I still can't find the face! :(

Where is it?

 

Nice find btw, and I agree with Tony for tube worm colony ;)

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9 minutes ago, GeschWhat said:

 

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Golly! 

It's evolving! It's started using make-up! 

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Miss Molly? :rofl:

 

What was label name for this, Specialty? :)

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