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Good evening all,

 

     I am looking for help identifying a dinosaur fossil bone specimen.  I don’t have any locale information, unfortunately.  The fossil weighs 1070 grams and measures 6 1/4L x 4 1/2W x 4 1/4”H +/-.  The fossil has some secondary coral fossil imprints on the outside but it’s not coral.  I appreciate your time and consideration in advance,

 

Mike

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I'm not seeing anything to indicate bone.  Why do you believe it's a dinosaur fossil? 

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Does not look like any kind of bone I am aware of.

No bone textures, or morphology.


I see clionid sponge or wrinkled rock borer markings on it.

Obviously been in the water at some point.


Lack of location makes things difficult to identify, but this looks like a rock, to me.

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Thank you Fin Lover and Fossildude19 for your replies.  I think my color was slightly off in the pictures and maybe I didn’t have the best angles, I will add a few additional pictures.  I’m not sure if it’s a fossil in a host or not, it could be geological as well but it does look like bone with a loop 🤷🏼‍♂️ 

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I agree with the others. This is not a bone.

 

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Certainly not a bone.

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10 hours ago, Agateyes said:

 I think my color was slightly off in the pictures and maybe I didn’t have the best angles, I will add a few additional pictures.  I’m not sure if it’s a fossil in a host or not, it could be geological as well but it does look like bone with a loop

 

 

Color has little to do with whether something is a fossil bone or not.

It's texture, it's shape, and bilateral symmetry, or lack thereof, that determine what is a fossil bone.

This just is not a fossil bone of any kind.  :shrug:

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Posted

Simply a funky shaped rock to me

 

RB

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Thank you all for the input, I greatly appreciate it. We shall call it a funky rock 🤷🏼‍♂️

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