PAJim Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Seeing what your thoughts are on this? Looks like bone, not sure if modern or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patelinho7 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 (edited) Some more photos that are focused and zoomed with better (brighter) lighting would help. To me, it looks similar to turtle bone. You can try a burn test to determine if it is fossilized or not. Edit: please include size as well Edited July 31 by patelinho7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Oof. Seems like a tall task to id this piece of bone, I'd just assign it as 'chunk of bone' and leave it at that. 1 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 I'm not quite convinced, yet, that it is bone. It could be, but the texture seems a little off to me. @Carl knows the brooks and bones pretty well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 The first picture shows distinctive bone texture to me, and I agree that it has the vascular large pore structure that I often see in large turtle shells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, Rockwood said: I'm not quite convinced, yet, that it is bone. It could be, but the texture seems a little off to me. @Carl knows the brooks and bones pretty well. I'm definitely seeing bone but there is almost no chance of IDing it nor saying if it's fossil or not. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patelinho7 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 I am going off of the flat surface myself. I have seen this exact thin flat surface with intricate grooves and striae on a number of turtle carapace/plastron fragments (no way to tell which usually) from early and late Cretaceous. But I agree, other than turtle shell, there’s no way to tell what species the fragment belongs to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAJim Posted July 31 Author Share Posted July 31 I think it's modern unfortunately. The burn test smells like the old burning of hair. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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