New Members chopkins Posted July 5, 2011 New Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 This was found in the ozarks on a bluff over-looking the river. Any info would be helpful. The egg is complete, but the outer rock is in four pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 You'll need to get some better focused photos from different angles and something for scale before any useful comments can be offered. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Chopkins - looks like a chert concretion (non-fossil). It's a fantastic psuedo fossil, for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members chopkins Posted July 5, 2011 Author New Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 (edited) Found in Norfork, AR Over-looking White River Edited July 5, 2011 by chopkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Can you give us a better idea of where in the Ozarks it was found, so that we can ascertain the local geology? Also, the item's size please? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Can you give us a better idea of where in the Ozarks it was found, so that we can ascertain the local geology? Also, the item's size please? I see you posted another picture, with a quarter for scale, while I was writing the above. You can disregard the first request as well, because I checked and the Ozarks are ancient "Paleozoic" rocks, and predate anything that could have laid such an by many, many millions of years. Chert nodule it is. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 (edited) At first, you make me chair jumping around :o Nice concretion, anyway Nando Don't be sad... several years ago, my first bird egg turned out to be "petrified meatball", according to the rock shop owner in Ellensburg, Washington Edited July 5, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 once i was talking to a quartz crystal miner on the side of a mountain in the ouachitas and i was trying to decide what to call the huge volume of matrix he'd broken up and discarded on the side of the mountain. i wasn't thinking it should be called chert because it didn't concoidally fracture and wasn't as fine-grained as the chert i was used to seeing where i'm from. he informed me the stuff was "country rock". looking at the piece here, it kind of looks like country rock to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLB Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 looks concretion like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdevey Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 once i was talking to a quartz crystal miner on the side of a mountain in the ouachitas and i was trying to decide what to call the huge volume of matrix he'd broken up and discarded on the side of the mountain. i wasn't thinking it should be called chert because it didn't concoidally fracture and wasn't as fine-grained as the chert i was used to seeing where i'm from. he informed me the stuff was "country rock". looking at the piece here, it kind of looks like country rock to me. Hey Tracer, country rock means, the Host rock, if im not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Don't feel bad about finding a rock that looks like something else. My Dentist, Joe Daugherty (who is now passed) was famous for collecting rocks that look like food. His stuff was so great he was on the Today Show, Late night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. So keep looking and you might get famous too! Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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