New Members Audkitty Posted May 21 New Members Share Posted May 21 Hi , my name is Audrey and I'm a newbie to the group, I love looking for fossils and rocks and artifacts. I am excited to find this group, this is the first group I've ever joined. I found this fossil close to my mom and dad's farm in East Tennessee. I think it looks like a raptor egg from what I have viewed online. I am a semi retired librarian with a fossil hunting Savannah cat (who loves to sniff old stuff) I am excited to learn more about the items I find. Thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted coulianos Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Sadly, not an egg or fossil. Looks like a mudstone or siltstone concretion. But keep looking, and welcome to the Fossil Forum:} Cheers! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Audkitty Posted May 21 Author New Members Share Posted May 21 Thank you very much. I am excited to be here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 To help you understand why we think this is not a fossil egg: 2 1 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Agree with the others above. It's a suggestively shaped rock - not an egg 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 6 hours ago, Audkitty said: I found this fossil close to my mom and dad's farm in East Tennessee This alone rules out finding dinosaur fossils. Eastern Tennessee's land mass is too old to have supported dinosaurs by hundreds of million years! A move to Western Tennessee gives you a chance of finding dino remains, but even here, only a few bones have been recovered, but no eggs as far as I can tell! I would love to see the other fossils discovered by you. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 This piece is a banded chert nodule that is very "weathered". 1 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...
CBchiefski Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Howdy @Audkitty and welcome, indeed for the reasons listed by others, and more, it is not an egg but rather a neat-looking piece of chert. I would say you still have a good find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Hi @Audkitty, banded chert are very nice pieces. 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Audkitty Posted May 22 Author New Members Share Posted May 22 I so so much appreciate your replies and I am very excited about finding anything that is unique and different. Thank you so much. Chert. I even like pronouncing the word CHERT. 😸 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMMFinsman Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 That's a really nice piece of of chert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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