BONE ID NEEDED - Looks like a Foot bone?!

[Thomas C]

Hi everyone,

 

Last week I went to the French cliff coast between Calais and Bologne Sur Mer. 

At Petit Blanc Nez, a coast famous for its marcasite and ammonite, I found a remarkable bone that looks like a tail or a foot bone.

 

I compared it with finger bones or foot bones, but the middle bones are to short to be a foot and there are to many bones to be a finger

 

here's a link that leads to the exact location where i found it:

https://goo.gl/maps/nSv73i2kYwXwqhij7

 

Can you help me out?

 

Thank You!

[caldigger]

I see nothing here that would lead me to believe this is bone at all.

Maybe an endocast of a burrow of some sort. But at the moment I am thinking it is geologic in nature.

[digit]

I agree that this does not have the hallmarks of a series of toe bones (or and bones as the texture does not appear right). I'm drawn to the rust-colored squarish protuberance on the left side of the first photo--cropped and lightened here:

 

It doesn't really look like a pyrite crystal and I'm wondering if this might be a hint of a metallic core to this object. Does it feel heavy enough to be metal? I'm wondering if this might be some manmade object that has been encrusted from many years in a marine environment? It would probably be helpful to see a photo of the individual pieces turned sideways so that we can see the cross-section along the length of this object.

 

Definitely not bone (sorry) but could be a burrow cast as previously suggested or possibly a manmade item that has been transformed into something unrecognizable but curiously interesting.

 

 

Welcome to the forum. Lot's of fossil information here (and even members from your area).

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[ynot]

I agree with Digit, a man made iron object with incrustation.

[Thomas C]

Thx for replying 

 

Digit,the rusty things you highlighted is a piece of stone 

 

But now that you mentionned men made ive looked in detail and I noticed a metal piece between two parts 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by Thomas C

[ynot]

4 hours ago, Thomas C said:

Digit,the rusty things you highlighted is a piece of stone 

Unless it is a crystal or has been cut to be cubic it is not a stone.

Looks like a bolt head to me.

[Manticocerasman]

indeed not a bone but a rusted iron object.

The coast in that area is litterd with metallic remains from the Atlantic wall, from pieces of barbed wire, steel rods and beams from he bunkers to shells from guns.

 

but you were on the right spot for cenomanian ammonites, did you find some?

 

 

[Thomas C]

My teacher found some, I only found some marcassites 

And an other fossil that I lost because I tried to make a fire with silex and marcassite (stupid me)

Edited May 31, 2019 by Thomas C