New Members saundersloth Posted May 28, 2019 New Members Share Posted May 28, 2019 Howdy, I have two chunks of something that have been a hot topic of debate in my household, whether these finds are fossils or not. Both are porous (the smaller one only in that little divet, the larger one all around) and found on Little Gasparilla Island in Florida. Thank you for your patience with this amateur’s post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 The first one is bone for sure, most likely marine mammal, maybe part of a vertebra. Reduce the certainty level for the same on the second. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 The second one looks like a really worn fragment of an oyster to me (but I'm not holding it in my hand, so maybe it is a bone fragment), the first one is bone as already stated. Now if your question was are they old enough, or mineralized enough to be fossils rather than recent, that is much more difficult to say. The larger bone certainly has the nice darkened look to suggest it has been buried for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 I agree with the above statements. " 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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