PabloInAustin Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I found this slab in a central Texas creek bed with steep sandstone banks. The shape of the item in the matrix looked too much like a bone, but the skeptic in me suspects it is a pseudo fossil...maybe even a tree root. Any help figuring out more info. on this specimen is appreciated. Thanks! --PabloInAustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Welcome to the Forum! It looks to have a bone shape, but I think it might be a chert nodule. Looking at your third picture, there may be more nodules. Try to compare them with tripolitic chert. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 + 1 for chert nodule in limestone. Mother Nature sure is a trickster! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PabloInAustin Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Thanks for the insight, abyssunder and Fossildude19. I tend to agree with you both that I'm looking at some pretty deceptive chert nodules. Mother Nature never stops amazing me in her cleverness. Happy hunting out there! --PabloInAustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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