Reggie Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) 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 .. Edited April 23, 2019 by Reggie Not enough info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatFossilBoy Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Welcome to the forum! Unfortunately, I am not seeing any sort of fossil here...sorry. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Welcome to the Forum. Looks like a quartz or quartzite pebble with some mineral inclusions, ... to me. Sorry, ... but I am not seeing a fossil. Keep looking though. 3 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...
daves64 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Howdy neighbor! I'm in E'Burg as well! Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 1 hour ago, daves64 said: Howdy neighbor! I'm in E'Burg as well! Well Dave's 64 maybe you would like to see it in person.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves64 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I wouldn't mind seeing it. Only problem is, I work nights so it can make social interactions with "day walkers" somewhat difficult. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Here's a better picture of what I'm talking about .couldn't get this picture to load the other day .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Looks like a piece of agate. May have some dendrites in it. 4 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 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. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 The pictures are fine. Sorry, but this would not be the morphology of a reptile. And the chances of scales preserving is fairly slim. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 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... I'm still just seeing agate with a conchoidal fracture. 1 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 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. 2 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...
Reggie Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 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 .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 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.... 2 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrR Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I'm not seeing fossil here either. But that, in and of itself, may be the OP's best hope that it is something. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Odds of finding fossils in igneous rock are slim-to-none. In metamorphic rock only very slightly better. Good Luck. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 It looks like a weathered / tumbled silica-rich rock / mineral, to me, with no fossil(s) there, I'm afraid. " 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...
Peto Lithos Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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