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Unidentified Fossil from Santa Monica Mountains


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Found this in 2012 at a location in Santa Monica Mountains.

 

Size is roughly an inch.

 

No other fossils could be found there.

 

First two pictures are after removing the covering sandstone.

 

Third picture is before.

 

Fourth is a closer shot of the road cut that I did in 2012.

 

Thanks for any help!

Os

 

unidentified1.jpg

unidentified2.jpg

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6 minutes ago, Foozil said:

Fish scales? Be careful showing off your site to the public btw ;) 

Ok, thank you - I removed the exact location detail.

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I know little of the areas geography, but It looks simply like a mineral inclusion of some sort to me.

“...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

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Looks like a piece of fish  - scale or bone. Not sure which.  

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