hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 found this in the gravel piles ... its weird for sure. Not sure its a fossil think its a not-fossil ....could be some type of agate?. location: west of Houston in Brookshire gravel load from Brazos river size 1"x1 1/2 " inch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Looks pretty interesting, not sure what it is, try placing it in acid to see if it fizzes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Looks like a banded chert with some differential weathering. @JohnJ 9 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...
fossilus Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Agree with ynot. I've seen alot of look alikes in the Brazos. Probably weathered out of Cretaceous carbonates up river. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 This looks pretty organized, and lines continue through the piece in worn areas. 3 "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 I have been looking up insect pupa as it does resemble a cocoon of some type but that may be a far fetched idea and it still may just be a foss-not piece of banded agate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 shark poop? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 27 minutes ago, jpc said: shark poop? oooooh if it is i bet it tickled 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Looks like differential weathering of banded rock. Pics in sunlight might show any translucency or other features. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) It looks banded chert, flint, or similar (silex) rock with a silica-rich core darker than the cortex. There are similar examples here in painshill's response. I'm wondering why the dissipative patterns may have a similar look? Edited November 15, 2018 by abyssunder 4 " 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...
hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 here it is in better light. I also soaked it in an acid bath for a bit not much change though if any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Probably more banded chert. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 another weird fossnot for my box of fossnots....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 ...but, It's really nice! " 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...
hndmarshall Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 14 minutes ago, abyssunder said: ...but, It's really nice! yea looks kinda like a but...think I have found a nickname!..."fossnot finder"....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, hndmarshall said: yea looks kinda like a but...think I have found a nickname!..."fossnot finder"....lol " 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...
Innocentx Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Very cool how these patterns are revealed by weathering. Quite special. "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hndmarshall Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 15 hours ago, jpc said: shark poop? you could be on to something! found these........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I do not see a coprolite in Your piece. The grain size is to coarse and the banding is not spiraled. But let's see what @GeschWhat and @Carl think. 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...
hndmarshall Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 11 minutes ago, ynot said: I do not see a coprolite in Your piece. The grain size is to coarse and the banding is not spiraled. But let's see what @GeschWhat and @Carl think. if you look at the back side it is kinda spiraled it actually looks wrapped. first two are mine the others from the net... the criss cross pattern on the fat end could be erosion and is a bit pattern like so still in the dark of its true origin untill further evidence is found ...still looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 1 minute ago, hndmarshall said: it is kinda spiraled Can You follow the ridges all the way around the object to see if they are in a spiral or concentric rings? I still do not see more than a vague resemblance to a spiral coprolite, but wait for the tagged members to give their opinions. 3 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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I'm in the banded agate camp. Currently digging a latrine. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Sorry, not seeing a coprolite there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 At the Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum, the Mineral of the Month for March 2017 was chert...a few pictured there have similarities with your piece. image from agatelady.com 3 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hndmarshall Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 6 minutes ago, PFOOLEY said: At the Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum, the Mineral of the Month for March 2017 was chert...a few pictured there have similarities with your piece. image from agatelady.com similar pattern to a point the banded stone in your pics lower right corner is similar in pattern but the bands on this stone are raised and do wrap around kind of like it can be peeled like an onion...I have found rocks similar to the one in your pic here is one pictured below with a pic of the stone in question guess it goes in the fossnot wth box...lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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