Any fossil experts on here?
I found this rock with a pretty cool fossil in it a couple of years ago in my back yard.
Anybody have any idea what kind of flora or fauna this might have been?
(My wife refers to it as my "Indian Love Stone", ie., just another f#$%ing rock!)[:D]
Anybody have any idea what kind of flora or fauna this might have been?
(My wife refers to it as my "Indian Love Stone", ie., just another f#$%ing rock!)[:D]
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Not positive but would seem that is a sea shell. 0 -
Plenty of fossils here, but no experts have risen to the top yet.... And grumpy, it was in Steve's back yard in La Grande, that's not near the ocean...[:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by toad67
Plenty of fossils here, but no experts have risen to the top yet.... And grumpy, it was in Steve's back yard in La Grande, that's not near the ocean...[:D]
The oceans have moved around also with the Ice age lots of fossils were moved to different locations. The Desert in Lancaster Calif is full of fossils like this and it is around 100 miles to the Ocean.0 -
Looks like a Trilobite. 0 -
That is a wing fossil that was formed in the year 2027.
It was from the last living eagle leaving the former USA.
It was seen carrying an old outdated symbol of a once great
civilization.0 -
quote:Originally posted by toad67
Plenty of fossils here, but no experts have risen to the top yet.... And grumpy, it was in Steve's back yard in La Grande, that's not near the ocean...[:D]
Yep, wrong forum.0 -
quote:Originally posted by wiplash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite
Like I was told he does not live by the sea. But that was exactly what I was thinking. He does live in an area that had glaciers. If I was to search and look back far enough that area was also part of a large inland sea.0 -
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
quote:Originally posted by wiplash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite
Like I was told he does not live by the sea. But that was exactly what I was thinking. He does live in an area that had glaciers. If I was to search and look back far enough that area was also part of a large inland sea.
I was just trying to be a smart azz grumpy...[;)]0 -
Brachiopod of some type 0 -
Good grief, Most of New Mexico was under an inland sea back about the time some of the older member here were born.
Sandia peak east of town is 10,000+ feet high, there are marine fossils in the granite at the crest.
crinoid head or soft coral.0 -
I've seen lots of trilobite fossils, it ain't that.
Barz's crinoid suggestion got me to looking and every crinoid fossil I see on the interwebs has branching 'rays', this one doesn't.
Brachiopod? I thought maybe so but every fossil of those I've ever seen had the 'rays' on the outside of a convex surface. On this one they're on the inside of a concave surface.
This thing's about 4 inches left to right and 2 inches up and down, as oriented in the photo.
I might need to drag it down to Eastern Oregon University and have one of the eggheads take a look at it.0 -
Do ya suppose the bits to the left of the fossil could be gill plates and the parts in the center and to the right could be part of a fin? Maybe with the fin bent and folded on itself? 0 -
send a photo to Ginsburg I bet she was around when it was still alive
she is just a living ( Ok maybe living ) fossil herself
possible she ate it tossed the shell / remains in the pond0 -
there are no fossils in granite 0 -
quote:Originally posted by khornet
there are no fossils in granite
+1000
Go find the rest of the bird someone carved in the slab.0 -
We have trilobites all over the Wasatch Front, 400 miles to the Pacific and more than 5,000 feet above the CURRENT ocean.
I strongly agree that your "fossil" is part of a manmade carving. The ray-like "fin" looks real, but would be concave not convex in a fossil. Ditto the "fingers" to the left.
It's a JAFR.0 -
Not an expert, but the surrounding rock looks a bit like limestone. If that's the case, it's something that lived in a shallow sea somewhere prior to being buried. Being concave, it may be an impression of a shell that was filled in at a later date. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by khornet
there are no fossils in granite
OK, then at the top is limestone that looks like granite and is full of fossils.[:)]0 -
Find the answer at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. Late January to late February. [:)]If you have enough fossils you could sell them and buy guns from GB[:)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by khornet
there are no fossils in granite
That ain't granite.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
We have trilobites all over the Wasatch Front, 400 miles to the Pacific and more than 5,000 feet above the CURRENT ocean.
I strongly agree that your "fossil" is part of a manmade carving. The ray-like "fin" looks real, but would be concave not convex in a fossil. Ditto the "fingers" to the left.
It's a JAFR.
It is concave.
There's no way this was man made, it's natural stone.0 -
Do I have to go climb a mountain to find one above the Vegas Desert to see what it is?
Yup, we were under water too![;)]0 -
The David is natural stone, too. But it isn't a fossil, either.
I can't see it or touch it, so I can only go by your photo, which has nothing to indicate scale. To me, it looks carved.0 -
The more I look, it looks like the tail of a fish fossil, with the pedicle to the left and caudal rays fanning to the right. Fish fossils are pretty common in Wyoming, don't know about where you live. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
The more I look, it looks like the tail of a fish fossil, with the pedicle to the left and caudal rays fanning to the right. Fish fossils are pretty common in Wyoming, don't know about where you live.
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That is what I am thinking too.0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
The more I look, it looks like the tail of a fish fossil, with the pedicle to the left and caudal rays fanning to the right. Fish fossils are pretty common in Wyoming, don't know about where you live.
NE Oregon.0 -
quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
The more I look, it looks like the tail of a fish fossil, with the pedicle to the left and caudal rays fanning to the right. Fish fossils are pretty common in Wyoming, don't know about where you live.
NE Oregon.
I am pretty sure there are fish west of Oregon, but I still don't know about where you live. Take it to the archeology Dept. at the University so we will know. I will pay for the gas and a burger.0 -
A fish is close, but I see more of a crayfish\crustatian type creature with the perpendicular segmented lines in the aft body end of the tail. 0 -
The geology of this planet is very diverse , despite what Al Gore thinks. 0
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