CaptainToast Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 (edited) I found this on a South Texas roadside. If you could confirm/deny it, and give me more information about it. It is a fossil, that i am sure, but id like to know more about it, or what type of plant it came from. it was found in an area full of other fossilized plant material, and in a desert area full of mesquite trees Edited March 7, 2016 by CaptainToast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Welcome to the fossil forum!! We got no picture and a scale would help too! Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Pictures not posting, check the size - they must be below 2MB in size. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainToast Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 im sorry i cant get a good picture of the ends, for some reason its not uploading correctly, but it doesnt appear to be flattened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It appears to be an ironstone like nodule of some kind. They often form very unusual shapes. 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I agree with JohnJ-- an iron concretion. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainToast Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 im familiar with ironstone, and i can say that it isn't. Also, it was found near other fossils of the same color and sheen (stems, wood, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Iron stone and iron concretions are two completely different types of rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainToast Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Iron stone and iron concretions are two completely different types of rock. It doesnt appear to be either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Why do you think this is a fossil? It has all the characters of some kind of iron based nodule. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It doesnt appear to be either From what I can see in Your out of focus pictures it is a classic example of an iron concretion, which can also resemble "twigs and wood". I do not see anything fossil about this piece. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It could have accreted around a root. Maybe. "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...
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