Frank Menser Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Collected this in the Green Mill Run, Greenville North Carolina. It is about 4" long and 2" thick. Any ideas? Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Is it real heavy? Will a magnet stick to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Hunter, Thanks for the reply. It is only slightly magnetic and while heavy for its size is not as heavy as a pyrite I have of roughly the same mass. Are you thinking Goethite? (an early suspect not ruled out). ~Frank Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 i have no clue, how hard is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 that's a piece of a fossilized journalist. i call 'em mediawrites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Actually I am thinking one of two things, a chunk of Iron artifact from a smelter or some other man made thing, or a meteorite. If it is natural and not a meteorite, then it is high quality iron ore/hemitite. But not sure of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Ok, I seem to be having probs with the posting on this place..... It doesn't have a metalic quality to it. If you are familiar with goethite the radiating strirations on this suggest that crystal structure. The thing is this came out of an active creek bed off the Tar river where there is a lot of fossil material of the same color (rich in Phosphate) from whale and Mastodon, however this is heavier than the fossil material. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn835 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 that's a piece of a fossilized journalist. i call 'em mediawrites. With rocks in my head, and fossils in my heart.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 It does look like a nice chunk of "bog iron". "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...
mako-mama Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Collected this in the Green Mill Run, Greenville North Carolina. It is about 4" long and 2" thick. Any ideas? Frank, You probably have an answer by now--but that fossil is part of stingray dermal denticle. I have a few of those really large ones from Lee Creek. Your appears to be highly re-worked but maybe not. These things sometimes grow in strange shapes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Frank,You probably have an answer by now--but that fossil is part of stingray dermal denticle. I have a few of those really large ones from Lee Creek. Your appears to be highly re-worked but maybe not. These things sometimes grow in strange shapes. Really? Great googly moogly! It's two inches thick; how big did those stingrays get? "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...
mommabetts Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Don't know what it is but it is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 I have found a lot of ray material in the GMR. I gotta ask too, How big DO they get??? Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metopocetus Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Large really worn whale tympanic bulla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoRon Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 It looks like whale to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilover Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Really? Great googly moogly! It's two inches thick; how big did those stingrays get? Here is a picture of one of the largest stingrays ever photographed that I found on AOL recently. http://news.aol.com/article/monster-stingr...thailand/356255 So in answer to your question, they get at least THIS big! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 DANG!!!! Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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