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Well, now that Ynot has been chased off.(He hates being blamed for things.)

How about some smashed turtle eggs!!

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I know that they are turtle eggs because I also found this newly hatched turtle in the lava flow!

(both sides)

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From Dugway geode beds Utah.

Tony

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Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Tony, Tony, Tony...please set a better example for all pupils. :D

Eye see what you did there.

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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So here is another "egg", but I am unsure if it is a bird or dinosaur...

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I know it is an egg because of the embryo inside...

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I think it is a road runner because it was found in New Mexico.

Thunder egg found at the rock hound state park in Deming.

Tony

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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.

 

 

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Sorry but I ran out of room on the last post.

A close up of the embryo...

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another Dugway geode.

Tony

An embryo with antennas ?

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So here is another "egg", but I am unsure if it is a bird or dinosaur...

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I know it is an egg because of the embryo inside...

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I think it is a road runner because it was found in New Mexico.

Thunder egg found at the rock hound state park in Deming.

Tony

You're wrong, it's an egg of a masked hero of Gotham.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

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It was Ynot that did that, not Me. :P:rolleyes:

Tony

Tony, Tony, Tony...please set a better example for all pupils. :D

Please, keep an post-21013-0-75339900-1469707762.jpg on him. :1-SlapHands_zpsbb015b76::muahaha:

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

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So here is another "egg", but I am unsure if it is a bird or dinosaur...

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I know it is an egg because of the embryo inside...

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I think it is a road runner because it was found in New Mexico.

Thunder egg found at the rock hound state park in Deming.

Tony

That's a rooster crowing at sunrise. :-)

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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You guys are funny!! :rofl: :hearty-laugh: :rofl:

An embryo with antennas ?

I thought they were antlers. :zzzzscratchchin:

You're wrong, it's an egg of a masked hero of Gotham.

Bats do not lay eggs, do they? :faint:

Please, keep an attachicon.gifpost-12000-0-68351500-1469591715.jpg on him. :1-SlapHands_zpsbb015b76::muahaha:

I always do, especially when I look in a mirror. :rolleyes:

That's a rooster crowing at sunrise. :-)

Cock-a-doodle-doo!! (I like roadrunners more.) B)

Tony

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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.

 

 

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How about a piece of petrified wood?

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Banded carnelian.

I found this one as a child and do not remember exactly where it is from- I was in New Mexico at the time.

Tony

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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.

 

 

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How about a piece of petrified wood?

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Banded carnelian.

I found this one as a child and do not remember exactly where it is from- I was in New Mexico at the time.

Tony

Looks good enough to eat. Especially that last picture. :-)

Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Looks good enough to eat. Especially that last picture. :-)

This type of "rock candy" is hard on the teeth and digestive tract!! :P

Tony

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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.

 

 

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How about a piece of petrified wood?

attachicon.gifDSCF4817.JPG attachicon.gifDSCF4818.JPG attachicon.gifDSCF4819.JPG attachicon.gifDSCF4820.JPG

Banded carnelian.

I found this one as a child and do not remember exactly where it is from- I was in New Mexico at the time.

Tony

This type of "rock candy is hard on the teeth and digestive tract!! :P

Tony

I always found that carnelian stones looked like sweets. Yours looks like caramel. :wub: I am not surprised that it catched the post-21013-0-45596100-1469742284.jpg of the kid you were. :)

Did you keep your teeth and digestive tract intact ? :P

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

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I always found that carnelian stones looked like sweets. Yours looks like caramel. :)

Well, he did say it was "banded caramelian". ;-)

Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Here's a lignified boomerang. It probably was lost by a couple of young dinosaurs while they were played on the beach during the Cretaceous. The boomerang was swept out to sea and deposited in the Austin Chalk now in Plano Texas. While photographing it, the heat of the sun was causing the wood to sound like Rice Krispies: snap, crackle and pop. Because the wood was rapidly drying out and falling apart I put it in my freezer until I could figure out how to preserve it. Futility set in and I threw it out. Sometimes a photo is the best way to preserve a fossil.

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Hey hi Everyone,

Here is another one from My collection.

Coral? alien brain?

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Not really sure what this one is other than a calcite mineral growth.

Tony

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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.

 

 

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Fossilized toe, possibly Egyptian.

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Hey hi Everyone,

Here is another one from My collection.

Coral? alien brain?

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Tony

Turtle brain for this one.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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"coral" that's really selenite crystals

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Human and animals shapes on Mars

 

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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Aliens on Mars :

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Other odd shape :

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Other planets seen from Mars :

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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