y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Found this 40 feet down in hole in side of a rock anyone have any idea what this might be? Any help would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 What is the size? 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...
y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 3 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Maybe an orthocone nautiloid. Wait for others to chime in. 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...
Natalie81 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Yes, orthocone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Aren't the would be septa a bit too robust ? There are sponges with this shape that might be considered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natalie81 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 @Manticocerasman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 It could be the siphuncle of a nautiloid. Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 1 hour ago, TqB said: It could be the siphuncle of a nautiloid. That would correct the scale. Big camerae ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Any recommendations on what i should do with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 not sure it has something to do with cephalopods, to me it looks man made. but I could be wrong. do you have pictures of the situation where you found it? growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 I do ha e pictures trying to figure out how to make file size smaller so i can post i can tell you this we dug down 15 feet hit rock and jack hammered through rock another 25 feet down it fell out of a hole in the side of the rock in our hole i have also found a few arrowheads and lots of flint on this property Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 13 minutes ago, y0unggunz said: jack hammered through rock another 25 feet Hard core diggin' ! Anyone else a bit envious ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 26 minutes ago, y0unggunz said: I do ha e pictures trying to figure out how to make file size smaller so i can post There are a number of options you can try to resize your images. A search for that topic on the forum yields many possibilities: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/search/ (type in "photo resizing"). You can also significantly reduce the file size image by cropping to remove extraneous background. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 The last picture the hole on the right is where it came out of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 10 hours ago, Rockwood said: Hard core diggin' ! Anyone else a bit envious ? Absolutely! Look at that pit....Man! What are we building/creating? Looks pretty serious! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0unggunz Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 A lift station 40 feet deep took us 3 weeks to get there top shelf where mini excavator was sitting is 25 feet down had to pull it in and out of the hole everyday with a crane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 I could be wrong, but the features of your last picture reminds me of cone-in-cone or similar geological structures? " 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...
y0unggunz Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 No the rock looks like that because of the jack hammering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Bet the darker layer just below the steel is an old sea floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 21 hours ago, y0unggunz said: Any recommendations on what i should do with this? I'd suggest showing it to a friendly paleontologist at your nearest museum who would probably be able to identify it. I'll go along with Tarquin's appraisal. It certainly can't be man-made judging by the pristine sedimentary layers in that pit. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0unggunz Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 (edited) Thank you for your info i appreciate it i didnt think it could be man made being down that far in earths crust what is tarqains appraisal? 10 hours ago, Ludwigia said: I'd suggest showing it to a friendly paleontologist at your nearest museum who would probably be able to identify it. I'll go along with Tarquin's appraisal. It certainly can't be man-made judging by the pristine sedimentary layers in that pit. Edited May 25, 2019 by y0unggunz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 On 5/24/2019 at 4:22 AM, TqB said: the siphuncle of a nautiloid. It would be a rather unusual preservation of this normally internal structure. It seems to be isolated from the rest of the shell of the cephalopod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 10 hours ago, Rockwood said: It would be a rather unusual preservation of this normally internal structure. It seems to be isolated from the rest of the shell of the cephalopod. Unusual but not unknown I believe, especially when the outer shell is fragile and the siphuncle robust. Or the septa could have been obscured/lost, as in parts of this 7" Carboniferous Pseudactinoceratid I photographed in the field. Anyway, it was only a tentative suggestion. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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