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Strange Head-Like Fossil (Or just coincidence?)


Kaushik

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Hello, I have found a strange fossil-like head of a dinosaur (I hope!) but I am not going to hope, because this rock was found in the backyard of my house. I am not sure what it is, but if it is not a fossil, can someone kindly tell me what it is (including the name of the rock and how it got there) and explain why this is just a coincidence. Check Imgur link here: https://imgur.com/a/iAMEBMM for more pictures.

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Interesting concretion that's somewhat suggestive in shape. This may be conglomerate. No evidence of a fossil, but don't give up. It appears you are in the Mesozoic so there's probably such things to find.

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This looks like a mudstone/sandstone/chert concretion, to me. (Hard to tell from this picture.)

 No bone texture, no skull morphology. :( 

 

As to how it got in your backyard? 
Any number of explanations are possible. 
Glacier, construction, human intervention. (Maybe someone else thought it was a dino skull, too.) 

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