TheSkeeter Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 I found this while diving off of NC for Meg teeth. Any idea what it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Looks like a coprolite! Congrats - way better than teeth! Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, GeschWhat said: Looks like a coprolite! Congrats - way better than teeth! Just got to lick it, to be sure! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 3 hours ago, GeschWhat said: Looks like a coprolite! Feeding traces in it ? or more recent pholad borings ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSkeeter Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Rockwood said: Feeding traces in it ? or more recent pholad borings ? I have no clue what you are talking about. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 7 minutes ago, TheSkeeter said: I have no clue what you are talking about. Lol. The holes that look like a budding carpenter has been trying out his drill set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSkeeter Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 I’ll clean it up and take some more pictures. It has some pretty unique features. I was thinking it was some sort of molar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 1 hour ago, TheSkeeter said: I’ll clean it up and take some more pictures. It has some pretty unique features. I was thinking it was some sort of molar Molar? Maybe not... That second photo made me think of some bones I once found. If , after cleaning, it turns out to be bone, Just a WAG.... I always let my imagination run away with my mind.... 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Looks like a piece of the limestone from the ledge that has been phosphatized and bored by pholid clams like Rockwood said. It may be a bone but not seeing bony texture in the pic. If bone the pholad burrow scenario still applies. You've probably seen meg roots bored at the ledge site. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Are phosphate nodules present in the area? I agree with @plax that this might not be a fossil at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 4 hours ago, TheSkeeter said: I have no clue what you are talking about. Lol. If it weren't for the features in the bottom of the most prominent hole in the last photo of the original post looking like that made by boring bivalves it would more easily pass for a coprolite. Invertebrates commonly feed on and dig in dung balls. The holes needn't all have the same origin by any means though. Coprolites are typically phosphatic in nature, as this piece appears to be. Hence the question about nodules (not fossils). I smell an ID heavily reliant on statistical odds at any rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 22 hours ago, Boesse said: Are phosphate nodules present in the area? I agree with @plax that this might not be a fossil at all. This is actually part of the ore body that extends NW to the Phosphate Mine at Aurora. There's a good paper in the Carolina Geological Society 50th Anniversary Volume that illustrates this well. To me the shark tooth abundance is a veneer of the ore body over the River Bend Limestone at meg ledge. This ledge was a subaerial prominence on the coastal plain during most of the Pleistocene and only underwater for several thousand years most recently. Phosphatized rip up clasts are common in many of our transgressive lags as well. It is also fairly common to see a bored hard ground that isn't phosphatized (blackened) in our Castle Hayne sequences for instance. I should take some pics. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 On 7/13/2020 at 10:23 AM, Rockwood said: I smell an ID heavily reliant on statistical odds at any rate. Sorry coprolite hopes. You drew a really, really small number in the statistical odds column. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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