sarahjane Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 So, I have truly no clue, not even a rough guess and it's making me crazy. I keep finding things that are close, but nothing exact. The sort of arch-shaped black thing has obvious lines running across it, and I can't find anything similar that has a feature like this that is so flat (you can feel the lines but only faintly if you run a fingernail across them) and - to me at least - it doesn't appear that they were once more grooved but weathered flat. I added the second picture because the first makes the "grooves" look deceptively 3D, the way it looks in the second pic is a better representation of how it actually appears. So I dunno - as always, any help is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Well, that right there is a 2006 Canada 1 cent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 That's a tough one! It does look like something...I don't know what. The matrix looks like pretty hard limestone; what else do you find in that kind of rock? Maybe the ID can be narrowed down by association. "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...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 It appears to be a fractured piece of a trilobite(that dark chitinous material is usually telling). I would guess that the larger piece is a ventral(bottom) side of the same... probably off the cephalon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 It appears to be a fractured piece of a trilobite(that dark chitinous material is usually telling). I would guess that the larger piece is a ventral(bottom) side of the same... probably off the cephalon. I think solius is probably got it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Well, that right there is a 2006 Canada 1 cent. I agree. Actually, I agree with solius. I have also found those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 hmm that is an interesting one, but solius has good reason behind his answer so i think he is correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahjane Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 Thanks, that's great! Of course, anything you came up with would be better than the frustration of not knowing I couldn't fit more attachments in the first post, but there is a bryozoan on the bottom and a few more v. small oddly shaped pieces of the dark material on the other face you can't see . I think you can see two bryozoans under the dark material in the first pic - the one on the bottom looks the same. I can post them if it helps, but I'm happy to go with your ID if you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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