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I have 11 rocks that I believe contain fossils. Is there anyone on here who can verify if these are indeed fossils? These rocks were obtained years ago in Texas while oil drilling. They were found at approx 50-60- feet below the ground.

 

 

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Fossils?!  No one on here knows anything about fossils. This is the French Cuisine Forum. :rofl:

 

They actually look like plant material. I am sure members that know more of that realm will be along shortly.

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Fossils?!  No one on here knows anything about fossils. This is the French Cuisine Forum. :rofl:

 

 

 

Our specially is mushrooms cooked and fossilized. If I had a twenty for every fossilized mushroom that members posted and asked about, I could buy a nice 4x4 SUV.

 

If I had 10 nice actual fossil mushrooms, I could retire.

 

 

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Hey DPS, would you mind swinging by my place in your new 4x on the way to the hunt, not sure my old junker will make the journey.

Maybe I need to find some dinosaur eggs down at the beach so I can get a new vehicle of my own.:ighappy:

 

 

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Your rocks look like they have impressions from plants.

If You can be a little more specific about the location it will help to narrow down the possible candidates.

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They remind me of hinges of inoceramid clams. :unsure: 

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+ 1 for plant fossils. 

And a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. :)

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When You post so many items at one time, with no reference number it is hard to make a reply.

Please organize the pictures and number the items so We can tell what is what.

We also need a scale (ruler preferred) in the pictures.

Thank You.

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

 

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I'm thinking rudist, personally... preservation looks all wrong for plant. Could the rocks around there be Cretaceous?

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Well, thanks for all the different views of these objects. Now that I've had a closer look, I'm dropping the idea of plant and starting to think like Fossildude19 with inoceramus and Spongy Joe with rudist, that we are looking at impressions of some kind of mollusc.

 

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15 minutes ago, ynot said:

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Calcite crystal for this piece.

Agreed, this is calcite. 

Pretty piece. :)

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3 minutes ago, dpmccain said:

This one is actually bone. You can clearly see the bone in it. 

 

Doesn't look like bone to me, from this pictures. 

It looks like part of the Chert/Limestone/dolomite matrix, to me.  :headscratch:

 

I'm still in the Rudist or Bivalve camp. 

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My first thought, at seeing the first image, was "plant material"...

Then I saw this:

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I really think we have shells here.

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I am now convinced that we have bits of a rudist reef here.

 

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