New Members MissouriStateLab Posted January 9, 2009 New Members Share Posted January 9, 2009 This was found in a field in southwestern Missouri. I am not even sure if it is a fossil. Can anyone help with identification? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I know next to nothing about verts. However, If you shoot Harry a PM he can probably give you an answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 This was found in a field in southwestern Missouri. We don't know what it is. Can anyone help with identification? It looks like a water weathered piece of chert to me, I have seen similar here in Southeast Missouri. I saw one once that resembled a vertebral column. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I agree. I think a mammalian bone of that size would have evidence of where the marrow would have been and a honeycomb structure. KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 ^^ I only clicked on the first pic; now that I clicked the others, I think you may be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Seems more of a mineral than organic to me.. I may be wrong though. Chert would make sense in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members MissouriStateLab Posted January 9, 2009 Author New Members Share Posted January 9, 2009 It sounds like a consensus. I was hoping it was something rare, oh well. Thanks for all the comments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 This was found in a field in southwestern Missouri. I am not even sure if it is a fossil. Can anyone help with identification? I agree with the other clever and good-looking observers; this is not bone. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 It is a wonderful example of a Pseudofossil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I agree with the other clever and good-looking observers; this is not bone. The first time I have been ever called good looking- and by somebody who has never seen me! Maybe there is a reason....... Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 The first time I have been ever called good looking- and by somebody who has never seen me! Maybe there is a reason.......Brent Ashcraft My error! In my expansiveness, I neglected to exclude you, 'Ashcraft', from the ranks of the clever and good-looking. Thank you for the correction. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 My error! In my expansiveness, I neglected to exclude you, 'Ashcraft', from the ranks of the clever and good-looking. Thank you for the correction. That made me smile Harry, well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 That is one piece of chert that I would keep around just to make people ask questions, use for a door stop or something. It really does look like a bone of some kind at a glance even if it is not, it is still a conversation piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 That is one piece of chert that I would keep around just to make people ask questions, use for a door stop or something. It really does look like a bone of some kind at a glance even if it is not, it is still a conversation piece. i don't stunderand why ya'll don't intivituitly grasp the usious obvage of these sorts of things. it should have just leapt out at everyone that this is a trailer ball hitch that fell off a flintstone mobile during the smilodino epoch. it is therefore a rare and valuable example of a stone age tool. we need to take up a collection, buy the thing, and put it in a glass case in the lobby, with lots of anti-theft equipment monitoring it. especially those laser beams that you blow smoke across to see them before you accidently cross them and set off the alarms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I think that could win best Pseudofossil of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I think Tracer knows something we do not know, he must have run a neanderthal dna test on this rare artifact or he has been on the beach too long today real neat psudofossil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 man, i never thought of the flintstones as neanderthals - that's weird. speaking of weird, do you recall the hit song "neanderthal man" in 1970 by the group "hotlegs"? it was classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I remember "Troglodyte(Caveman)" by the Jimmy Castor Bunch... loved that song as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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