New Members catplanetcatplanet Posted August 18, 2014 New Members Share Posted August 18, 2014 Hi TFF, Greetings from a beginner collector! I made a trip to Bayfront Park on Saturday for teeth and picked up a couple objects that seemed suspicious. Would appreciate any ideas for ID if either of them are fossils. The black one is very light and maybe 1/2". The gray one has some weight to it, is maybe 1 1/2" long. It has a hole at each end and is covered in pores. Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Hi, and welcome to the Forum. I'm afraid that neither object does anything to set off my fossil radar. "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...
hokiehunter Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 The first item might be an internal cast from a gastropod shell. Hard to say for sure from the pictures. The other looks like a plain old rock to me. Keep at it and welcome. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 am with hokie hunter on the internal cast of a snail for number 1. The beige one could have bryozoa all over it (from the written description) that would show in a sharper picture. It could be a pagurized snail shell if we could see the hole end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members catplanetcatplanet Posted August 18, 2014 Author New Members Share Posted August 18, 2014 Thanks for the input! I will upload better photos once I get back to the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members catplanetcatplanet Posted August 19, 2014 Author New Members Share Posted August 19, 2014 Hope these images prove a bit more useful: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) beige one looks like a bryozoan (or sponge?) colony on ? probably a snail, can't explain the hole on both ends black one still looks like a poorly preserved phosphatized snail steinkern Edited August 19, 2014 by Plax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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