Joe Salande Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 While fossil hunting at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, I came across this critter. I don't think it's a Crinoid, as the little groves and very tiny, even compared to some small Crinoids that I found. I'm thinking of some sort of Centipede type creature, but have no Idea. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. I was tickled to find something a tiny bit different. Thanks in advance Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Hi, it might be mineral stains, but wait for more knowledgeable's opinion. 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Need a better close up. Can not see any detail. 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...
Herb Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 looks like a styolite , serrated surfaces within a rock mass at which mineral material has been removed by pressure dissolution, in a process that decreases the total volume of rock. Insoluble minerals, such as clays , pyrite and oxides, as well as insoluble organic matter , remain within the stylolites and make them visible. 3 "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...
westcoast Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 I don't think this is a stylolite but would need better images to say for sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 I tend to agree with Westcoast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Possibly Artesia, the pith cast from calamities, if the age is right. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Section through a chaetetid sponge? 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Partial molds of Leptaena ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Just noticed the tags. Is this cretaceous chalk from the western interior seaway ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 not western interior seaway if NC. Unfortunately I can't think of any rocks in the NC foothills or mountains that contain fossils. All of them are igneous/metamorphic. Now, if you were a few miles over the border in Virginia or Tennessee I would say it could be a fossil. I think that Herb may be onto something. There is also the possibility that you have found a fossil where none have been found previously. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 12 hours ago, Herb said: looks like a styolite , serrated surfaces within a rock mass at which mineral material has been removed by pressure dissolution, in a process that decreases the total volume of rock. Insoluble minerals, such as clays , pyrite and oxides, as well as insoluble organic matter , remain within the stylolites and make them visible. Would this represent sort of like a vent where solution was expelled to an area of lower pressure ? It does look like a sink drain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Salande Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 Thanks for the input guys! I've tried numerous times to get a better picture, close up, but to no avail. I'll research some of the suggestions and research and may be able to ascertain better with it in my hand, but your suggestions sound the most likely. Thanks again, Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I agree with @Herb. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Pictures have not enough details, but I'm wondering if can't be something along this: excerpt from M. L. Sykes & J. B. Moody. 1978. Pyrophyllite and metamorphism in the Carolina slate belt. American Mineralogist 63: 96-108 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...
sixgill pete Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 The foothills of the Appalachians in North Carolina due to erosion over the eons are to old to contain fossils. The tallest mountains in the eastern U.S. are in North Carolina and they are mere bumps of what they were when formed. The rock exposed is some of the oldest on earth. There is a rock on Grandfather Mountain, that is said to be the oldest on the planet. While I have no idea what you may have found, sorry it is not a fossil. Curious though where in N.C. was this found. 3 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Salande Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 Greetings Guy! Thanks to you guys for all the great input. I have to amend my location. This was from South Eastern Tennessee. I made my first road trip on my own since retiring to visit a bunch of places, including, but not limited to: Mounsville Alabama, (Archeological site), where I found some crinoids and coral in a small creek, off of the park property of corse, Little River Canyon,Georgia, and two days in Chattanooga, which is where I found the item pictured above, and North Carolina ( Smokies) where I found nothing. Sorry, I can't get a better picture then this, but I sure do appreciate yawls input and look forward to some more productive hunting and chating with you all. Joe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Looks vaguely like the water worn cross section of a fisherite/ recepticulite. But I have no idea if this possibility fits the geologic time period of the area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 No, i think these initial photos showing typical mineral dendrites: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrit_(Kristallographie) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 12 hours ago, Joe Salande said: Greetings Guy! Thanks to you guys for all the great input. I have to amend my location. This was from South Eastern Tennessee. I made my first road trip on my own since retiring to visit a bunch of places, including, but not limited to: Mounsville Alabama, (Archeological site), where I found some crinoids and coral in a small creek, off of the park property of corse, Little River Canyon,Georgia, and two days in Chattanooga, which is where I found the item pictured above, and North Carolina ( Smokies) where I found nothing. Sorry, I can't get a better picture then this, but I sure do appreciate yawls input and look forward to some more productive hunting and chating with you all. Joe I had my hopes up that you had found fossils in our mountains Joe! Thanks for the update and clarification. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Salande Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 Sorry Plax. But great state you live in. I would love to be up there in the mountains, instead of by the swamp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 I'm in the swamp of SE NC but we have great fossil sites in the riverbanks, quarries and seashore. The state has excellent Triassic fossil sites in the piedmont also. Search this forum for North Carolina fossils. There are plenty of fossil sites for you in nearby Mississippi and northern Louisiana. Not so much the latter... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Salande Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 Thanks Plax! I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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