3 inch tall full skeleton appears to be human or alien fossil

[kyleamartin]

Found in a creek in Missouri maybe.

 

 

 

[kyleamartin]

[erose]

No, but very interesting. You’re going to have to give us more info about where it was found to get past just interesting.

[Fossildude19]

TOPICS MERGED. 

One is plenty. 3 is overkill..

Cropped, contrasted, color cast adjusted (-yellow) and rotated:

 

 

 

[jpc]

1 minute ago, Fossildude19 said:

TOPICS MERGED. 

One is plenty. 3 is overkill..

and nine same photos seems a bit much.  Can you take a few from side angles.  This may be a trilobite trace fossil... that is the marks left in the bottom of the mud when a trilobite passed by.  Or something else.  

[Fossildude19]

2 minutes ago, jpc said:

and nine same photos seems a bit much. 

 

 

May have been a glitch, or a mistake - there were only 3 photos actually attached.

[kyleamartin]

If anyone is truly interested in this please PM me.

[Fossildude19]

Posting your phone number on a public Forum is probably not the best idea.

We are interested in it, we just don't believe it is a skeleton or human or alien fossil.

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

This reminds me of a story, back  in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama . Cotton workers unearthed a huge skeleton
The bones of a giant whale a  leviathan called Basilosaurus cetoides . From Eocene period a time when all of Alabama was covered with deep water. The plantation workers looked at the huge bones and they thought this must be the bones of a fallen angel . 
 

Your find is interesting but not an alien or tiny person.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Cruziana from Missouri :

At least some similarity, I'd say. 

Longest track is 1.3 inches. 

Kansas City, seller said it was from a burrowing trilobite, not sure how true that could be. 

Edited April 22, 2022 by Tidgy's Dad

[Auspex]

My first thought was an infilled burrow, too.

[Ludwigia]

I think that Tidgy's Dad may have hit the nail on the head.

Just for your interest, here is another case of mistaken identity.

[Ludwigia]

2 hours ago, kyleamartin said:

If anyone is truly interested in this please PM me.

Of course we are truly interested, since some of us have already imparted our thoughts and observations, but we can just as well do that here so that everybody can participate in the discussion.

[Fossildude19]

Another similar fossil:

 

 

 

[Auspex]

It's wicked cool, for sure! Try to imagine the arthropod that was mucking-about in the mud, and the processes that allow us to see the results today!

[kyleamartin]

3 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Of course we are truly interested, since some of us have already imparted our thoughts and observations, but we can just as well do that here so that everybody can participate in the discussion.

 

 

Like I said I'm sorry I don't have a very good camera but if you were holding it like I am you can see said you see says draw bone hinge joints and you'd also be able to tell that it's laying face down and you can see not only the spinal column but you can see the little bumps where the ribcage actually connected to spinal column you can see the color bone in a pelvic bone you can even see the hinge use the ankle so if you just wanna come look at it just let me know when I'll make arrangements to meet up with you

[ScottBlooded]

If this is a trilobite ichnofossil I am so profoundly jealous. They’re so incredibly cool, really a unique window into animal behavior you can’t otherwise get from the fossil of the animal itself. Truly brings them to life.

[ScottBlooded]

4 minutes ago, kyleamartin said:

Like I said I'm sorry I don't have a very good camera but if you were holding it like I am you can see said you see says draw bone hinge joints and you'd also be able to tell that it's laying face down and you can see not only the spinal column but you can see the little bumps where the ribcage actually connected to spinal column you can see the color bone in a pelvic bone you can even see the hinge use the ankle so if you just wanna come look at it just let me know when I'll make arrangements to meet up with you

I feel like a good rule of thumb is to exhaust all terrestrial possibilities before jumping to alien skeletons. Just imagine how much cooler it would be if you truly did eliminate everything else and it did wind up being an alien skeleton.

[Ludwigia]

I would suggest you take this rock to your nearest museum and let the resident paleontologist explain to you what it is.

[Rockwood]

1 hour ago, kyleamartin said:

Like I said I'm sorry I don't have a very good camera but if you were holding it like I am you can see said you see says draw bone hinge joints and you'd also be able to tell that it's laying face down and you can see not only the spinal column but you can see the little bumps where the ribcage actually connected to spinal column you can see the color bone in a pelvic bone you can even see the hinge use the ankle so if you just wanna come look at it just let me know when I'll make arrangements to meet up with you

One key issue with this description is that the would be vertebrae are not well enough defined, and paired correctly with the rib like shapes. It would be very unusual for ribs to be well defined but not the verts.

[Mark Kmiecik]

5 hours ago, kyleamartin said:

If anyone is truly interested in this please PM me.

 

If you mean purchasing it, nobody on this forum who collects trilobite trace fossils would give you enough money for it to buy a cheeseburger, fries and a coke.

[westcoast]

This looks like Bichordites

[Mahnmut]

Hi Kyleamartin,

your photos are not that bad, they do show a lot of detail.

And the overall impression of the fossil is astonishingly close to some humanoid skeleton shape, its a really cool coincidence, and a real fossil of something else. I would have loved to find it.

Like the sea urchin that made a beautiful impression of a chameleon in this post:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/109449-hearne-bay-uk-skull-impression/

 

But the detail does not fit.

A potato that looks like Elvis is a remarkable find, but still a potato. A fossil potato that looks like Elvis is a really nice find, but no proof for Rock and roll in the palaeozoic.

 

Best regards,

J

 

Edited April 24, 2022 by Mahnmut
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[FB003]

On 4/22/2022 at 11:19 AM, kyleamartin said:

Found in a creek in Missouri maybe.

I didn't see any specifics on this but did you find it yourself or purchase it?  IF bought, no need to provide the seller.  Just curious. The maybe indicates it might not have been found by you personally.

[kyleamartin]

Found personally