markjw Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Any ideas on what this might be? It's about 25cm long on a rock in a parking lot in Oakville, Ontario. Looks nothing like the local rocks and surely brought in from elsewhere. Much of the local area is Ordovician or Silurian, but who knows from how far it came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I think it is a concretion. The rock does not look like it has traveled very far from its formation. 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...
markjw Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 Thanks for insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 It is suggestive, but I don't see anything in the photo that I could definitely identify as biological. 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...
markjw Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 I am also having my doubts. It is just such a striking feature...not used to geological details like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 3 hours ago, markjw said: I am also having my doubts. It is just such a striking feature...not used to geological details like that. Hang around here long enough and you will be amazed at the tricks mother nature tries to fool us with. 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 July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 I think, there might be something related to the spheroidal weathering / onion-like 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...
markjw Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 Thanks to all who contributed to the analysis of this ultimately uninteresting "unfossil" ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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