New Members corygangles Posted April 28, 2015 New Members Posted April 28, 2015 Hello Everyone, This is my first post so forgive any errors I may make that may not follow standard post guidelines (which I did read). Anyways, I found this "thing" while performing a prescribed prairie fire in south central MN. It was out in the middle of a field tucked under some grass. Luckily I picked it up before the fire came through. It is heavy in your hand (like a rock) 11.8 oz. It is 8-1/8" diameter and approx 3-3/4" length. It has obvious layering over the entire face (like an egg). If it's an egg.. it's too big to be a goose egg, in my opinion. Not the right shape for a sandhill crane. I've thought of all sorts of birds and can't think of which it could be. Too big to be a turtle egg from around here too. Perhaps it's just a rock, perhaps it's an egg, perhaps it's something i'm not thinking of... I'm just fishing for any input for curiosities sake. Thank you for your help in advance. I appreciate it.
Auspex Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 This is one of the better egg-mimics to come along; all it lacks is an eggshell texture. It is either a water-worn cobble, or possibly a concretion. "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!
fossilized6s Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 This is one of the better egg-mimics to come along; all it lacks is an eggshell texture. It is either a water-worn cobble, or possibly a concretion. Agreed. It's close. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG
pinkus Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 Suspicious that it was tucked under some grass. I wonder if there were other rocks in the field. If so, were they angular or rounded?
Auspex Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 The prairie soils contain a lot of rocks; freezing and thawing work them inexorably to the surface. "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!
abyssunder Posted April 28, 2015 Posted April 28, 2015 Welcome to the Forum! Not an egg,concretion I presume. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library
New Members corygangles Posted April 29, 2015 Author New Members Posted April 29, 2015 Thanks everyone for your input! Lacking the cracked egg texture is why I didn't have my hopes up. I'm glad I have some ideas now though. I may still pretend that it's an egg, lol. Perhaps some day I will come across lapidary equipment able to cut it in half... to know the real truth....
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