SCSeaGal15 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Can someone tell me if this is a fossil clam mold? Found at a barn in East Tennessee. Unsure where it was originally found but he thought he might have found it in a river in the mountains. It measures approximately 3.5" long by 2.5" wide by 1.25 deep. The main body part is gray with some brown hints and the center band part is lighter whitish gray and also has some tiny holes at it's edges. Obviously I'm not an expert but I think it is interesting regardless. Help appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 It's a cast of the interior of a bivalve -- a steinkern. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSeaGal15 Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 Thank you! Do you know what fossil period? Could it have been found in a stream in the Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 6 minutes ago, SCSeaGal15 said: Thank you! Do you know what fossil period? Could it have been found in a stream in the Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee? I haven't hunted down south yet so i can't tell by the looks of it, but here's a geologic map. Source: google image search Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I disagree, from those photos. I've never seen a shell cast with quartz running through it and I think its a waterworn pebble with a quartz band running through it, although I could be wrong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 1 minute ago, Foozil said: I disagree, from those photos. I've never seen a shell cast with quartz running through it and I think its a waterworn pebble with a quartz band running through it, although I could be wrong. I think that's limestone with some calcite crystals, most places on the steinkern that matrix is worn away, but on the sides it has not. 1 Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSeaGal15 Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 That is interesting to consider Foozil. Certainly could be a water worn pebble with all the stream action of the Smokies. It has a shell look with both "side" above and below the line being really close to the same size and it tapers and has the general shape of a clam but I don't know. I like it but of course would like it better if it was a fossil! Thanks for the map Whodaman! So interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 It is a petrified chicken burger! Seriously- I agree with Foozil. It is a mica schist with a quartz vein. If it where calcite the vein would be worn more than the parent rock. PS You can see the mica sparkles in most of the pictures. 3 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSeaGal15 Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 Ynot, Ha the man got it from said he called it his "burger" rock! Funny you would call it a chicken burger. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 3 minutes ago, SCSeaGal15 said: Funny you would call it a chicken burger. Chicken is white meat and quartz is white rock. I should have called it "chicken on rye". Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Hu, I am OK with Foozil too ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSeaGal15 Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 It's interesting Coco regardless. Thanks! Wanting it to be a fossil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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