ShadyW Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Here's a very pretty fossil I picked up at the North Sulfur River that I just can't work out. It's been fractured along multiple faces, leaving beautifully polished surfaces which are as reflective and smooth as flint. However, it has a rough, porous texture at one end, and those pores appear to extend down into the polished/shiny bulk of the sample. The color is a very nice caramel, and not at all what I'm used to from NSR fossils. My first guess was that it was a thick chunk of tooth enamel, but I don't think enamel has pores like bone. If it's bone, I'm wondering whether it's either from a different era or a different zone, producing a completely different mineralization to "normal" NSR material. Any ideas? Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 It appears to be a piece of petrified palm wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 It appears to be a piece of petrified palm wood. yes i agree petrified wood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Here's a very pretty fossil I picked up at the North Sulfur River that I just can't work out.It's been fractured along multiple faces, leaving beautifully polished surfaces which are as reflective and smooth as flint. However, it has a rough, porous texture at one end, and those pores appear to extend down into the polished/shiny bulk of the sample. The color is a very nice caramel, and not at all what I'm used to from NSR fossils. My first guess was that it was a thick chunk of tooth enamel, but I don't think enamel has pores like bone. If it's bone, I'm wondering whether it's either from a different era or a different zone, producing a completely different mineralization to "normal" NSR material. Any ideas? It looks very much to the Cretaceous silificated fossil sponge I find in my region.Are there sea fossils there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Shady, I also agree with the petrified palm wood. I've found pieces at different places around Texas that have different mineralization characteristics. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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