rafael5643 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Does this look like a fossilized turtle shell? Photos should speak for themselves. https://ibb.co/bHmcnT https://ibb.co/dtD7nT https://ibb.co/g2Qyu8 https://ibb.co/nqUDST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Welcome to the Forum. It looks like a septarian concretion/nodule to me. Not a turtle fossil. Posting the pictures here for continuity and posterity . 3 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Likely not a turtle....but still a very cool piece! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Yep, Tim's got it pegged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Welcome to the forum from down the road in Cooke County. Look for the concentric layering on the inner edges of a rock to confirm concretions. If you're interested in fossils consider meeting with other collectors at the Dallas Paleontological Society. We're mostly amateurs. www.dallaspaleo.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 it is a septarian nodule "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I agree completely as far as the available evidence goes. I wonder if it would be possible for one of these to form inside the body cavity of dead turtle incorporating it's minerals as they dissolved. It would seem like the perfect starter kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Herb said: it is a septarian nodule +1 for septarian nodule... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 That's a really nice septarian nodule / concretion. You can distinguish the "bars"- core elements of it, as it's nicely exemplified in this topic. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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