What is This? Find from Big Brook NJ

[OneLastSift]

Hi, I don't know if this is a concretion or possibly a bone. I found it in the mud and saw the cracks in it.  

[OneLastSift]

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[OneLastSift]

I also have these "things" and I don't know what they are. There were two pieces but one of them broke because I dropped it  so now there are three pieces. But they are as hard as rock. There is a hollow hole that travels throughout both pieces. I found them right next to each other so they connect. I hope you could tell me what they are. Thanks!  

[ynot]

2 minutes ago, ColeFossilFinder said:

I hope you could tell me what they are.

Not possible without pictures.

The piece pictured looks like a concretion.

[Fossildude19]

+1 for concretion on the first item.

[OneLastSift]

I am trying to upload the pictures but I can't because it says only 3.95 MB could be uploaded

[ynot]

Just now, ColeFossilFinder said:

I am trying to upload the pictures but I can't because it says only 3.95 MB could be uploaded

Refresh the page , if the pictures are small enough (there is a 3.95 meg limit per post).

[OneLastSift]

[Bronzviking]

Looks like a petrified tree branch, but wait for the others to look at it.

Here's some good info about petrified wood: http://www.gemcoach.com/types-of-petrified-wood/

[ynot]

58 minutes ago, ColeFossilFinder said:

I also have these "things" and I don't know what they are.

Can We see some close up pictures of the broken ends?

Does resemble branches, but could be burrow cast or a rizolith concretion.

 

I would still like to see better pictures of the first pieces broken surfaces.

 

Good clear close up pictures of the ends will help to determine what You have.

[OneLastSift]

So you want me to take pictures of the ends of the things?

 

[ynot]

1 minute ago, ColeFossilFinder said:

So you want me to take pictures of the ends of the things?

 

Yes, please.

They need to be as close as You can get and stay in good focus. Use the camera's micro setting.  It will help to do it in direct sunlight with the piece setting on a solid surface.

[The Jersey Devil]

It is definitely a concretion, but it is actually very interesting and I would keep it. Most concretions are much smaller than this one.

[njfossilhunter]

I have found these tree branch looking thing before in the Wenonah formation in the past....... I wonder myself from time to time if they may have come from some kind of burrow because they all ways found in a up right position .    

[Al Dente]

Might be a burrow cast.

[Fossildude19]

Root cast?  

[njfossilhunter]

2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Root cast?  

That has crossed my mind as well.

 

[ynot]

3 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Root cast?  

 

7 minutes ago, njfossilhunter said:

That has crossed my mind as well.

 

 

 

Yeah, it crossed My mind too....

On 9/11/2018 at 9:55 AM, ynot said:

Can We see some close up pictures of the broken ends?

Does resemble branches, but could be burrow cast or a rizolith concretion.

 

I would still like to see better pictures of the first pieces broken surfaces.

 

Good clear close up pictures of the ends will help to determine what You have.

 

And I am still waiting for the additional pictures.