Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

[fifbrindacier]

On 01/12/2020 at 8:57 AM, GreatWhiteAmmonite said:

Probably just horn coral too. If you look down the 'snout' is there three twisting lines the spiral a bit going down the body of it, sorta like looking headon at the old spiral Nerf footballs, best way to describe

 

On 02/12/2020 at 7:12 PM, Fossildude19 said:

It's not a horn coral. 

 

I agree, that's not at all a coral.

[ErikAndere]

May I add... trade name is Dragonskin but it isn't skin, despite the scales and veins! Outside of a thunder egg from an atypical bed here in central Oregon. most of the eggs look like this on the outside. The bed produces very nice round false-eggs in the form of perlite nodules, when I get a good one in-hand I'll post that too. They look deceptively like both a fossil egg and a thunder egg, which just isn't fair to anybody. 

[Pippa]

Well, a while back I found this fossilized baby shark that I really want to share with you all. Just look at its fearsome teeth!

I already know, you don't want to believe me, so to help people without any imagination to see it better, I added the eye because, as everyone knows, eyes don't get fossilized, which is why it was missing. Right?  

 

Fossilized baby shark:

 

 

Lucky me, I also found half of an ordovician Horned Owl's head in a hash plate. Just look at it. Bushy eyebrows and all. To help unimaginative folks on the forum here recognize the owl better, I rorschached it, meaning, I duplicated the left side of the owl's face, flipped it round and completed the face as it once must have looked. So now, everybody surely should be able to see right away, what beautiful fossilized horned owls lived during the ordovician. 

 

The first an only ever discovered example of an ordovician horned owl:

 

Please enjoy these discoveries and let me know what you think and have a great day!

 

 

Edited April 1, 2021 by Pippa

[fifbrindacier]

Cookie sponge

[Tidgy's Dad]

2 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

Cookie sponge

 

Mike @minnbuckeye

[minnbuckeye]

9 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

Cookie sponge

 

 

 

 @Tidgy's Dad Me needs to have one of those!!

[digit]

I saw Cookie's cousin Smiley McSponge in the Hogsty Reef (Inaguas) Bahamas back in 2011.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

[fifbrindacier]

On 4/3/2021 at 8:31 AM, digit said:

I saw Cookie's cousin Smiley McSponge in the Hogsty Reef (Inaguas) Bahamas back in 2011.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

Nice !

[FossilNerd]

I recently scouted a new to me exposure of the St. Louis Limestone. A Carboniferous (Mississippian) aged formation that locally weathers out as red clay with a sprinkling of odd shaped limestone chunks, chert, and concretions. Often a couple of species of the coral genus Acrocyathus can be found weathering out of the clay so I like to scout out different exposures when I can. 
 

All I found this time were dinosaur eggs!

 

Ok…Ok…  I know these are not actual eggs, but I suspect that many “eggs” found in my area come from this formation. They also tend to come apart in layers imitating, to the unknowing, eggshell (last 2 pics).  These are all about the size of a tennis ball and were everywhere. These are just a few quick pictures I took with the phone.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 9, 2021 by FossilNerd

[Pilo]

Euflemingites sp? Found within an anthropogenic concretion, NM

[PFOOLEY]

Found this tooth...

 

 

 

 

 

...I think its from a bobcat.

[Randyw]

10 minutes ago, PFOOLEY said:

Found this tooth...

[abyssunder]

On 3/31/2015 at 10:56 PM, Pilobolus said:

Thanks for keeping this alive...I have not been around for a while, but obviously, this is a clam or oyster of some sort...

[fifbrindacier]

On 10/10/2021 at 9:15 PM, PFOOLEY said:

Found this tooth...

 

 

...I think its from a bobcat.

[Done Drillin]

Saw this and knew I had a good one to add...... Was returning from a Peace River dig and came across 2 young ladies who were digging near the boat ramp where I had launched -when I pulled up they asked how I had done so  I was showing them my finds and they excitedly said they had found something special -a whole fossilized baby manatee ! Well I said, that is something I have to see ! They then produced a carefully wrapped treasure from their belongings - when I saw it I smiled and said - wow that’s cool ! They were so excited I just couldn’t tell them it was just a rock !

[jpc]

the Big Question...."Do I tell them or not?"  

[Mark Kmiecik]

On 12/1/2020 at 9:43 AM, digit said:

"petrified" mushrooms

They have the right to be afraid just like any other fungus! 

[opalbug]

The skull of a Rock Fish from the Miocene

 

Edited June 3, 2022 by opalbug

[fifbrindacier]

On 6/1/2022 at 5:24 PM, jpc said:

the Big Question...."Do I tell them or not?"  

You should, but, they would be soooooo disappointed !

[Petrified]

I call this foolish gold.  It's looks like a small ring fossil of some sort but when closing up its really just a flake either gold or pyrite.  It comes from glacial till but pyrite from area looks different there not like this.  So for now it's called foolish golden ring.

[Ezio Bonsignore]

Try to put it into the fire, and see if any inscription becomes visible...

[digit]

If an inscription in Elvish Tengwar script does appear, please don't pull a Lord of Barad-dûr and try to reunite the other fossil gold rings.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

 

 

[Missourian]

'Fossil shell fragment'

Gale Crater, Mars (MSL)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

 

Raw images at:

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=3273&end_sol=3273&af=MAHLI%2C%2C

[Petrified]

You guys got that song stuck in my head now The Ring Of Fire by John Cash.  Down Down Down and the flames got higher..... Lol

[rocket]

the definitely oldest fossil owl, lower jurassic, Altdorf

Missing link between Bird and Ichthyosaur