Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

[fifbrindacier]

On ‎12‎/‎06‎/‎2018 at 11:50 PM, Wrangellian said:

How about this?

Amazing how that fossil plant can so much look like a moon of Saturn !

[Wrangellian]

On 6/27/2018 at 2:45 AM, fifbrindacier said:

Amazing how that fossil plant can so much look like a moon of Saturn !

On such vastly different scales, too!

[ynot]

On 9/24/2014 at 8:22 PM, Wrangellian said:

What is a compaction cone, pray tell??

It is a cone shaped fracture that occurs when an object impacts a brittle substance. (bb or rock hitting class will often cause one).

The shape can be affected by weakness in the stratification of a rock.

[Wrangellian]

9 hours ago, ynot said:

It is a cone shaped fracture that occurs when an object impacts a brittle substance. (bb or rock hitting class will often cause one).

The shape can be affected by weakness in the stratification of a rock.

Whoa, 4 years ago! I had to go back to the first page to find that...

I thought that was called a shatter cone, but do you mean to say that this is a (distorted) cone caused by the impact of something into the solidified rock, and not something that formed when the sediment was still soft?  @TqB ?

[ynot]

41 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

do you mean to say that this is a (distorted) cone caused by the impact of something into the solidified rock,

Yes.

[hndmarshall]

I found a fossilized not-turtle

[hndmarshall]

or how about my not-tooth?

[hndmarshall]

even found a petrified not-peanut

[hndmarshall]

or perhaps my non-egg?

[digit]

Splendid collection of non-fossils. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 10/24/2018 at 9:03 PM, hndmarshall said:

I found a fossilized not-turtle

 

Tidgy would love this! 

[digit]

I thought I'd add this image from our recent visit to the Calvert Marine Museum. It shows that they have a good sense of humor and aim to entertain as well as inform their visitors. Got a chuckle out of us when we saw it.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

 

[Paciphacops]

Fossilized elephant trunk? 

 

 

[ynot]

11 hours ago, Paciphacops said:

Fossilized elephant trunk?

And a nice one at that!

[Mark Kmiecik]

On 7/26/2016 at 1:12 AM, ynot said:

How about this fish in an agate nodule...

Tony

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Made you Google it, didn't I?

[Mark Kmiecik]

One of my hundreds of dinosaur eggs from the Francis Creek Shale Member of Mazon Creek. You name the tetrapod, I've got the egg. I believe @Nimravis has complete nests of any species you can name.

 

 

 

[Scylla]

The verrrry rare, museum grade monkey head wearing a fossilized bacon headband, tadaaa!

[ynot]

1 minute ago, Scylla said:

, museum grade monkey head wearing a fossilized bacon headband,

I like this one!

 

(Almost as good as the baby mammoth with antlers.)

[fifbrindacier]

I recently found that owl in my garden

[fifbrindacier]

[Pippa]

When I discovered jurassic Dino-Hound, a truly unique vegetarian, there were still some half-chewed petrified pine branches sticking out from its open jaws.

Fossils just don't get any better than this!

Alas, I had to leave this find behind. It just was a bit too large and heavy to carry to the car.

 

 

[digit]

Well spotted!

 

Now that was a formidable beastie--despite its non-carnivorous tendencies.

 

Would be a great POTM entry if we had a Pareidolia Of The Month contest.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Wrangellian]

On 11/12/2019 at 4:37 PM, fifbrindacier said:

Why don't you encase it in cement so that some future rockhound will actually find a fossil mushroom, for once - one that resembles something else at the same time? 

[fifbrindacier]

5 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Why don't you encase it in cement so that some future rockhound will actually find a fossil mushroom, for once - one that resembles something else at the same time? 

yes, you're right !

[Mark Kmiecik]

Here's a beauty. Petrified turtle head from Nevada.