ijustpicit Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Unknown origin of this rock but sure looks seahorse like to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Hi,welcome. It isn't a seahorse. Below:fossil hippocampid(seahorse) (age:Sarmatian(more or less Serravallian(Miocene) s.s. in the Central Paratethys area ,Tunjice Coprolitic Horizon,Slovenia) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Another one from Italy. Sorry, yours is not a fossil. 4 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Welcome to TFF! Your rock is a chert nodule that has lost most of the outermost layer. The remnant of that layer is what has the shape of a seahorse, but it is not. Neet looking rock though. 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...
ijustpicit Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 Thank you for your help. This is a great forum. I am posting what should be a better pic. Could you possibly take another gander at this and tell me If you still feel the same about it. I must agree, definitly not a seahorse, but possibly a dragon goby? Idk.....wishful thanking maybe....thanks again for this awesome forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Welcome to I'm afraid that I must agree with the previous comments, your last picture making our ID even more certain. This is not a seahorse or goby fossil, or any fossil for that matter, but simply a mineral inclusion in chert, so purely geologic in origin. Though I definitely see where your guess is coming from, Mother Nature is really a trickster, and it happens regularly that She makes something look a lot like something it is not. That's why there are many pseudofossils --> things that look like fossils while they are not. Nonetheless, your find is pretty cool, even though it isn't a fossil! I am sure though that there are some cool fossil-hunting possibilities in your area. Maybe try joining a local fossil club, they will surely be able to put you on some good stuff. Happy hunting! Max 1 Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijustpicit Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 Thank you very much...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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