jpc Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 20 hours ago, JBkansas said: Could it be petrified wood? Not sure it looks like the whale skeletons from nearby: Maybe if there's a geoloc on the picture someone can find the location and get more pics. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3198337/Stunning-images-reveal-fossilised-remains-whales-middle-desert-sea-floor-long-lost-ocean.html Bone preservation can be very variable, even with a single fossil site. Also, I believe that those whale skeletons in the link have been out there as an in situ museum. But then... pachy found the answer... dugong! Cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 28 minutes ago, jpc said: But then... pachy found the answer... dugong! Cool. Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer 3 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 Some background information. Zalewski, F., 2017. Petrographic observations of the building stones of the great pyramid of Giza. Journal of Geological Resource and Engineering, 4, pp.153-168. Abstract for above paper PDF for above paper Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 2 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer On 5/26/2022 at 1:26 PM, FranzBernhard said: Bone, rib cage as already mentioned... Does not look like bone, so the only option remaining is dugong ribs? Franz Bernhard ...but, @FranzBernhard was already on the right path. 1 1 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, JohnJ said: was already on the right path. It was pure teamwork in the spirit of TFF ! First, "rib cage" was suggested by @Mark Kmiecik! Second, "bone" was suggested by @Top Trilo! Third, I combined "rib cage" with "non-bony bone" - dugong? Fourth, @jpc and @Jared C considered whale! Fifth, @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon presented his similar (or same!) discovery many, many years ago! Sixth, @Anna Marie obviously searched for dugong and here we are! Brainstorming and team work at its best! Best of TFF !! What a great forum with great members! Franz Bernhard Edited May 28, 2022 by FranzBernhard 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 interesting, first time I expected burrows, but now, after reading the comments and taking time with the picture... Ribs. Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Absolutely a dugongid skeleton, almost certainly Eocene. There was recently a paper published by a colleague of mine on a dugong skeleton preserved in a block of limestone on a passageway in the step pyramid of Djoser! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Boesse said: Absolutely a dugongid skeleton, almost certainly Eocene. There was recently a paper published by a colleague of mine on a dugong skeleton preserved in a block of limestone on a passageway in the step pyramid of Djoser! Oh wow! Didn't know they had these fossils at Saqqara as well! They indeed seem to be quite widespread, in that case...! 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Marie Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 On 5/27/2022 at 12:51 PM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: Would love to take the credit for this, but, in fact, it was @Anna Marie who found the releasing answer I say @FranzBernhard gets the credit. He actually deduced it. I knew there were fossils at the pyramid and just googled it . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Marie Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 (edited) On 5/28/2022 at 2:25 AM, FranzBernhard said: It was pure teamwork in the spirit of TFF ! First, "rib cage" was suggested by @Mark Kmiecik! Second, "bone" was suggested by @Top Trilo! Third, I combined "rib cage" with "non-bony bone" - dugong? Fourth, @jpc and @Jared C considered whale! Fifth, @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon presented his similar (or same!) discovery many, many years ago! Sixth, @Anna Marie obviously searched for dugong and here we are! Brainstorming and team work at its best! Best of TFF !! What a great forum with great members! Franz Bernhard I don't take any credit lol. I knew there are fossils there and just googled that. My work was all superficial. The rest of you guys are the experts and used your skills! I'm grateful though for all of you and your help. I'm learning more and more!! This site rocks!! Edited June 1, 2022 by Anna Marie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 12 hours ago, Anna Marie said: I say @FranzBernhard gets the credit. Thanks, but I don´t feel so. But it doesn´t really matter, who has solved it. Everyone contributed. One upon the shoulders of another one . Franz Bernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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