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Heart Shaped Rock! Fossilized Beehive, Bones & Teeth? Oh my.


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     Greetings from Ontario, Canada.

 

   What in the world did I just find? I seem to have found a fossil cache for lack of a better term as I gathered a bunch of weird stuff from roughly the same spot.

  

   I love searching for rocks, minerals, fossils or really anything that gets me outside and covered in filth. Trouble is, I'm terrible at identification and I'm fairly new to this. Is this oddity as rare and unique as it seems to be to me? I've never seen anything like it before! Every time I look at it my mind is blown, the natural "heart" shape is insanely cool and I find this things strangely beautiful even with the teeth and bones, lol. (There's a sentence I never thought I'd write.)

 

   I had planned to upload 5 or 6 pics, (front, back, close-ups), but can only fit one picture, even after compression. Any suggestions? Should I upload the rest to my gallery?

 

   Any thoughts from this one pic? Is that fossilized honeycomb? Is that a bone? I know for sure it's a tooth stuck in the bone but anybody know what kind? Any and all info is very much appreciated. 

 

  More pics of my other finds to come as time allows... and certainly more questions.  :)

 

  Happy trails.

 

   

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Welcome to the Forum! :)
I think you have a nice tabulate coral there, the big one from right (honeycomb).

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This appears to be a Favositid coral, on a suggestively shaped piece of crinoidal limestone, with a possible horn coral as well. 

 

No bones or hearts here. ;)  If these were found in Ontario, the rocks there are too old to have any of those items there. 
Not to mention the incredibly scarce occurrences of soft tissue preservation. 

Maybe the blobs attached to the limestone could be mineralized veins of different composited matrix.

 

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+1 for tabulate/favositid coral. 

 

The shape of the rock is due to natural geological processes of erosion. 

 

This is very similar to the rarely exposed deposits in my part of southwestern Ontario, and may put this as Devonian in age, Dundee Formation. 

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48 minutes ago, TeaForTwo said:

I had planned to upload 5 or 6 pics, (front, back, close-ups), but can only fit one picture, even after compression. Any suggestions?

You can add successive images by 'replying' to the topic.

 

The coral is a really attractive fossil, IMO; a good show-piece. The whole thing has the look of bottom debris from a high energy rip-up event.

Rocks can tell stories, if you but listen. ;)

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4 hours ago, Auspex said:

Rocks can tell stories, if you but listen

 

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         You people are great!!!, and far better at this than I could ever hope to be!!!!! Thanks for all the information and tips. Tabulate Coral it is then! thank you for the quick response and I apologize for my slow one. I'm too busy looking for rocks and fossils every chance I get, lol. With some success.

 

        I've included a pic with a better angle of what I meant by a "tooth in a bone", as it reeeaaallyy looks like a mammal tooth with some decay or degradation. I realize now that it probably isn't, but a guy can dream.

 

      Stay tuned for more questions, lol. I tried to research my finds but fossil identification is quite a robust field of knowledge and I was quickly overwhelmed, lol.

 

     Next up is my over 100 lbs fossilized concretion. A literal "Tomb Stone" I've dubbed it, lol. Also, just yesterday I found a large rock with an over 10 inch crab arm, or pincer, or mandible or something...impressed in the stone like a cave painting...it's huge...it's crazy...it's coming to a fossil forum I.D. page near you soon. 

 

   Thanks again, Happy Trails.

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