Paleo_Adventure Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Hello and thank you for your assistance. Can anyone identify this fossil? I found it in SC , Cooper River. Tooth? Horn? Spike? Again, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleo_Adventure Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 Hello, so many views but not feedback. I have asked for years with no response from others and look forward to someone knowing what this is. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I'm going to guess tortoise leg spur, someone should confirm or correctly ID it hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I don't think it's a tortoise spur. I've not seen a spur with this sort of texture. The Cooper River has Pleistocene to Middle Miocene fossils which considerably expand the possibilities. I don't really have a good guess for you. Your mystery find strikes me as very dense -- toothy material or something completely replaced by an exogenous mineral. Here are some Florida river wood fragments completely replaced by calcium phosphate: 2 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 I kinda figured it wasn't a spur but a wrong answer usually elicits the correct answer. Usually Looking down at it in first picture it looks more like wood to me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Wood replacement seems likely to me. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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