Monica Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Hello all! It's been a while since I last put up something to be identified because it's been a very busy few months (we recently sold our old house and have moved into our new house - yay!!!) I did get out with the kids today, though (mainly because Viola has to take her Brownie group's owl all over the place this week, and we thought that it would be fun to take him fossil-hunting ), and there's one potential fossil and one rock that I'd like your thoughts on... Picture #1: Viola with her Brownie group's owl (Oscar) and a fairly large orthoconic nautiloid Picture #2: The potential fossil - could it be part of an Isotelus sp. trilobite? Or is it something human-made? Picture #3: A cool-looking rock - any ideas as to what type it is? Thanks in advance for your help! Monica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Viola is getting more adorable everyday! Sorry I can't be of help with the ids. 2 Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Skye and I have a similar owl called Swoops 1 "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I’m thinking maybe the weird rock could be a iron concretion (hence the scaliness) with a high concentration of hematite (hence dark color) but this is just a guess. 1 “...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 December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 The first piece looks like concrete to Me. (More views could change that opinion.) The second looks like an igneous rock similar to granite where one (or more) of the minerals have decomposed and left holes. 1 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 December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I'm pretty sure there's nothing human-made in this picture, but I'm wondering if it can't have anything related to crinoids (in the left part of the picture). comparative image 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...
Ludwigia Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I don't think that that's a trilobite bit, but as you know, it's not always easy to judge from photos. It just doesn't seem to have the right substance or color. That nautiloid looks interesting, anyway, and Viola and the owl both look great! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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