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Pseudofossils, Pareidolia, And Other Rorschachery

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MyGodMagma New Member

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Some see a wolf, but to my well trained eye is this clearly a rare dragon egg.

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"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Watson and Holmes in "The Crooked Man" ~ Conan Doyle

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Found March 2017

Prepped September 2017

Holocene

San Simeon Beach deposit

San Luis Obispo County

California

It must be Bison or Bos, because I've made up my mind and my stubbornness won't let you tell me otherwise.

 

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I just found this thread. Sure is a lot of rocks out there that are just that.......Rocks.

I have posted my Stone Headbone many times, is it worthwhile to post it here as well?

Why not?

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It is a nice piece. It is a skull. Just mummified and you are not used to seeing them because it is rare. It is not a fossilized tooth, which would be the only other thing it can be. Did I miss my bus, the short bus.  It is possible. Haha

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On 1/1/2018 at 5:35 AM, Troodon said:

Fossil skulls are typically not solid like your specimen. 

 

20 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Definitely not a skull. :( 

 

 

47 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

It’s a rock!

I think @jason3124fish35 figured that out, considering where He chose to post this "skull".:headscratch:

 

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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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On 1/2/2018 at 4:12 AM, bone2stone said:

I just found this thread. Sure is a lot of rocks out there that are just that.......Rocks.

I have posted my Stone Headbone many times, is it worthwhile to post it here as well?

Why not?

No, @ynot.:rofl:

On 1/2/2018 at 5:59 PM, Missourian said:

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Rather than throwing away your rock for the garden, you'd better give it to me, i'll offer you the post tax.

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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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13 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said:
On 1/2/2018 at 1:12 AM, bone2stone said:

Why not?

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No, @ynot.:rofl:

It is not Me -- I still have My headbone!

(:headscratch: But I do see the resemblance.)

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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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On 1/2/2018 at 10:59 PM, Missourian said:

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This is very funny and quite close to reality. 

I showed it to wifey and she didn't understand..

Sigh. :doh!:

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Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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"A Templar Cross?  In southern Michigan?  Could Peat Burns have just helped Rick and Marty Lagina solve the mystery of the Oak Island treasure?"

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Pilobolus Regular Member

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Too bad it is so worn, you might have been able to get a species on that Mike...but given the environment, I'm guessing it to be the less valiant water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)

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Nice "ammo", it must be a Pseudoceras wishfulli :P

 

Just realized that this pseudo-fossil would be in good company here. Something looks slightly off on that left specimen of a Cookiecutter Shark, Isistius triangulus, tooth. :doh!: Made me pause and do a double-take when I first found it.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

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On 4/14/2018 at 11:18 AM, Heteromorph said:

Ammo-not.

 

 

:rofl:

Having discovered many of these, I have to say yours is most suggestive!

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Kimmeridgian owlite

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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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21 hours ago, ynot said:

Disagree with owlite, that is clearly a fossil arctic fox.

You know, i found those stones while prospecting near Lourdes, so, why not a miracle ? The discover of a new species : owlofoxite or foxoowlite ?

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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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