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Found this 20 years ago. have packed it around always wonder what it is ..found 20 miles due West of Ellensburg Wa ..I see the head of something looking from left to right  . opposite in picture .the head is almost the size of the rock .the white mass is center of it's mouth and eye is located just above that ..there appears to be scales of some kind on the back of it and a patch of green on the bottom. It is all coiled up  hope the pictures I have are good enough to ID it ...it is roughly the size of a good potatoe ..

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Welcome to the forum!

Unfortunately, I am not seeing any sort of fossil here...sorry.

Regards.

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Welcome to the Forum. :) 
Looks like a quartz or quartzite pebble with some mineral inclusions, ...  to me.  :headscratch: :unsure: 

Sorry, ... but I am not seeing a fossil. 

Keep looking though. ;) 

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Howdy neighbor! I'm in E'Burg as well! :D

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

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1 hour ago, daves64 said:

Howdy neighbor! I'm in E'Burg as well! :D

Well Dave's 64 maybe you would like to see it in person..

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I wouldn't mind seeing it. Only problem is, I work nights so it can make social interactions with "day walkers" somewhat difficult. :shrug:

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Here's a better picture of what I'm talking about .couldn't get this picture to load the other day ..

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Ynot do you see the head /face ? .it is almost the whole face of rock if you look right in the middle of it just above the white spot you will see it's left eye .and yes it appears to agate or mineralized formation we have a lot of  petrified wood around here 

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I do not see any fossil here. There is nothing visible to suggest any diagnostic features, such as symmetry, bone texture, or proper morphology, that would make this a face of any organism. 

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I believe it's a snake or reptile pictures dont show very well but if you were able to hold in your hands .it is all coiled up and on the back there is scales visable.

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The pictures are fine. Sorry, but this would not be the morphology of a reptile. And the chances of scales preserving is fairly slim. 

 

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You wouldn't think so Kane but they are present ..I showed this to( Doug Mayo .Wenas wooly mammoth )he was the one who pointed me towards FF for an ID 

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Did Doug Mayo give a provisional ID? 

 

You would have to point out precisely, as per the anatomical images above, what features in this rock are identical. Where is the bone? Without diagnostic evidence, this may be a case of pareidolia... :unsure: I'm still just seeing agate with a conchoidal fracture. 

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Mayo just agreed that there was something there ..and it needed to be looked at ..I don't see any bone but if you over  lay that bottom picture that you sent on  top of my tock I see a resemblance 

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There is no fossil in this rock.

I think you will have to take it to a paleontologist to examine in hand, as we are not seeing what you are seeing. 

Forum votes for no fossil - 5  You and Doug -  2

 

Please take your item to a local university for a qualified paleontologist to look at.

Any further discussion of this is likely to be fruitless, as we see no fossil, but you do. 

We will have to agree to disagree until evidence to the contrary is supplied. 

Right now, there is no solid evidence of there being a fossil in there.  :unsure: 

 

 

 

 

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It will have to wait till the fall the Burke is closed until then .then I'll be back and let you know what I've found out ..thanks the help ..

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1 hour ago, Reggie said:

Ynot do you see the head /face ? .it is almost the whole face of rock if you look right in the middle of it just above the white spot you will see it's left eye .and yes it appears to agate or mineralized formation we have a lot of  petrified wood around here 

Many rocks will have features that make humans see something "recognizable", when it is really just suggestive shapes or color patterns.

The rock You are asking about has quite a bit of both going on, but it does not have a fossil apparent in it.

As said by others here, the distinguishing features of a vertebrate fossil are missing.

 

Take a look at this thread where forum members have some fun with the not really fossils type rocks....

 

 

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I'm not seeing fossil here either. But that, in and of itself, may be the OP's best hope that it is something. :headscratch:Good luck.

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Odds of finding fossils in igneous rock are slim-to-none. In metamorphic rock only very slightly better. Good Luck.

 

 

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It looks like a weathered / tumbled silica-rich rock / mineral, to me, with no fossil(s) there, I'm afraid. :(

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I think that I see what you see, but as others have said this is a piece of quartz. Fossils like what you are thinking of would not preserve in quartz, and this piece has no bone structure.

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