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Really weird rock or fossil?


Gavin

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Found in the Sulphur river, Texas.

This might just be a really weird rock but I would like to see if this is actually something.

 

 

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Then it's settled! We should write this one up for the journals. There's no doubt in my mind that this would be a paleontological first. "Late Stage Auditory Response in Cretaceous Sauropods", it just rolls off the tongue, lol. The real mystery is where they got the batteries!

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Jay A. Wollin

Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve

Hamburg, New York, USA

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That may be what it is, but it kind of looks like tufa to me. Per Wikipedia “Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water.”

You get odd, funky shapes that form that kind of look like something, yet are too amorphous to ever ID. That’s when I think tufa.

 

Not directly related, but have you ever been to Mono Lake? It’s East of Yosemite National Park. It’s a tufa lake. Very cool to see. Strange and bizarre.

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