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Hi everyone, for your consideration - I excavated for a septic system on my property here near Chittenango Falls, NY, which is Lower Middle Devonian.  Can anyone identify from picture whether or not this is bone?   There are a couple more rocks just like this one.  I can post more pictures if need be, thank you for your time!

 

 

 

 

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You have chert (quartz ) nodules in limestone. The outward shape of the nodules are not fossils. Take steel knife and scratch both the nodules and the white rock. The white limestone should scratch and the nodules not.

 

Save them; they make cool yard rocks.

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Welcome to TFF!

You have some limestone cobbles with chert nodules in them.

Chert can replace or include biologic things, but I do not see that with Your pieces.

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I'm guessing you've seen these before :)  Thank you!  I may wait a few years to tell my 5-year-old.

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4 minutes ago, springbrookplace said:

I'm guessing you've seen these before :)  Thank you!  I may wait a few years to tell my 5-year-old.

The limestone may have fossils in it. Keep an eye out.

You can always take a hammer to a few pieces and see what comes out. Sometimes there is a nice surprise in the limestone.

Tell Him now, that way He learns what not to look for.

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Goes to show you how quick people are to help on TFF. I started my response before anyone else had posted, walked away to get a band-aid and by the time I got back, 4 people had already taken care of it! 

 

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7 minutes ago, DevonianDigger said:

I started my response before anyone else had posted, walked away to get a band-aid

You are typing too hard fella!:headscratch:

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39 minutes ago, ynot said:

The limestone may have fossils in it. Keep an eye out.

You can always take a hammer to a few pieces and see what comes out. Sometimes there is a nice surprise in the limestone.

Tell Him now, that way He learns what not to look for.

Will do.  He's got a good eye - We found this in the creek - I think its Pelecypod Venus? 

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By Pelecypod Venus, are you meaning a Venus clam? Pelecypod is a term for bivalves in general, but the Venus clam's latin name is Chamelea gallina. I'm not a pro on these, but could it be a Mercenaria cuneata?

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16 minutes ago, DevonianDigger said:

By Pelecypod Venus, are you meaning a Venus clam? Pelecypod is a term for bivalves in general, but the Venus clam's latin name is Chamelea gallina. I'm not a pro on these, but could it be a Mercenaria cuneata?

Hey thanks for the reply.  I am just starting out here.  My son keeps finding things and asking me what they are / where they came from, I'm doing my best to find answers!  I saw something similar on this website:  https://www.isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geology-resources/pelecypods

 Which is where I got "Venus". 

I'm not sure how to tell if something like this is 'fossilized' or just stray (someone had clams), or maybe they just lived in the creek semi-recently.  This appears to me to be a saltwater bivalve, how to know if it is a fossil or not?   

 

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7 hours ago, springbrookplace said:

 

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Looks like someone had a clam bake. ;) 

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Mercenaria cuneata as posted by I_gotta_rock under the Member's Gallery.

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Notable Cenozoic shell beds are not present in NY.  The shell is the Northern Quahog Mercenaria mercenaria.  As mentioned either a recent clam bake or left behind by Native Americans.

 

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The "Curious Rock or Bone?"  has a good resemblance with tripolitic chert.

 

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