New Members Woodt7676 Posted June 10, 2022 New Members Share Posted June 10, 2022 I was in a cave close to my house and discovered a sink hole. I got closer and in the sinkhole was a huge pile of sand. In the sand I could see what looked like dozens and dozens of little nests, or so they looked like to me, and a bunch of egg looking rocks all different shapes and sizes. they are Extremely heavy and feel just like they look. Can anyone help me identify what they are please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 9 minutes ago, Woodt7676 said: and discovered a stink hole If these were coprolites, that would explain the smell!!!!!!! Kidding aside, these do not look like fossils to me. But we will wait for others to respond. By the way, welcome to the forum!! Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Woodt7676 Posted June 10, 2022 Author New Members Share Posted June 10, 2022 I tried to edit that word and it stuck?? thank you for the feedback and the welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 As suggested they don't look like fossils. Possibly just rocks that tumbled on to the sand in storms. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Yes, an assortment of rocks that have been tumbled to a greater or lesser degree. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBkansas Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 One of the fragments appears to have shell fragments but the camera is focused on your jeans and I can't be certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Woodt7676 Posted June 10, 2022 Author New Members Share Posted June 10, 2022 Sorry it is a shell. It was together when I found out and I wanted to see why it was so so heavy so I had my nephew smash it with a hammer and it broke up like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBkansas Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 I meant it appears it might have shell fragments within the rock I reposted. I don't see anything that looks like a large shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Welcome to the forum! Your area is likely to have much older fossils with things like brachiopods, bryozoans, trilobites and crinoids. Keep in mind that rocks exposed to moving water tend to get tumbled down into rounded shapes and concretions form in spherical forms as well. These lead us to think of other things that have this rounded shape and eggs come to mind quite readily. The resemblance of random rocks to things we recognize is quite common for rockhounds. We've even devoted a topic to this topic: The phenomenon of seeing familiar objects from ambiguous visual information is a feature of our advanced pattern matching brains. Some times it provides amusing interpretations and sometimes it leads us astray. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia https://www.google.com/search?q=pareidolia&tbm=isch Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 The first one looks like an ironstone concretion (siderite concretion). Note the flaking. The last one seems to be the weathered shell of a former siderite concretion. That means, the outer part of the concretion had been weathered to "limonite", than it broke and the siderite core fell out. Concerning the others, I can not say much more than a very generic "stones" . Franz Bernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuckMucus Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 If the sink hole is inside a cave, and if it is legal, and if it can be made safe to do so, I would give the experts a shot at it. If they are unwilling or unable to do so, I would systematically excavate that sand pile to the bottom. I don't know how deep it is, but maybe people were tossing rocks onto it from above, making the dents it in the sand and the nest-shaped depressions. It's really hard to talk about this situation without pictures but based upon your words, my mind's eye has conjured up quite the Pleistocene faunal trap. Beware flash flooding, collapsing sand, walls, ceilings, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 I agree with the others. All I am seeing are generic rocks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/10/2022 at 7:08 AM, Woodt7676 said: I tried to edit that word and it stuck?? thank you for the feedback and the welcome! Did you mean "it stunck"? Nope, not seeing any fossils. Definitely not any eggs. Search "eggs" on this forum to become familiar with what is and what isn't an egg fossil. P.S. -- You won't find any in your area because they don't exist there. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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