Leah Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 new here and new to any organized fossil hunting. I'll start with this one...found in a river bed washout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 It looks a little like a siderite concretion, especially the structures exposed along the big end. How long is it? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) 3" at its longest. layered. not sure if you can see the thinnish venneer outside on parts of it. Most of it has flaked off. Edited July 15, 2012 by Leah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 a few more shots from different angles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Yeah, I'm in the concretion camp for this one: ironstone, concentric layers. spalling surface, a shape that is suggestive of an organic origin but which doesn't bear up under closer examination... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Thanks! next... I broke this out of black shale. (obviously not finding anything spectacular here but I am just trying to figure out what is and is not "something") It was so different the than the surrounding layers of shale that It made me suspect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Welcome to the forum from north Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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