smoovevirgo Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Not sure what these are but I picked them up anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I also think they are rocks, but wait for the other's opinion. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 No more comments from me unless (1) you explain why you think each individual specimen is significant, (2) you give the dimensions of each specimen, and (3) you give the geological layer where it was found. This is about the 5th post I've seen where you post photos of rocks hoping to win the lottery. 2 Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I could see geodized shell material there, but it's hard to say. The third one of the second row looks to be rock. No eggs..., sorry. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Less egg looking would be preferable. 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer A Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 I agree with abyssunder. The first one on the second row looks a bit like a couple of pieces I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Less egg looking would be preferable. Blazinga! :-D 1 Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 (edited) Less egg looking would be preferable. I agree, you focus on egg shapes, you want to find eggs and you find stones. I don't know the area where you hunt, i don't know what are your feelings nor the landscape you see, when you go hunting outside. Maybe if you look up and open your mind at what surrounds you, you'll find fossils or no. Maybe they would be rare ones or no, bigs or littles, but they would always be interesting because they tell the story of where you are. While your mind is open, you feel easier to organise a hunt of fossils more abordables, you take further information on the spots nearby, on what you can find there, what are the signs that could show that "here, there could be something interesting". After gathering a while, you'll realize that the richness and variety of fossils are far more worth a fossil of egg. And maybe, one day, you'll really find one, without having a look at it. Edited August 14, 2016 by fifbrindacier 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 smoovevirgo... Those are some interesting finds and I can see how you might mistake them for eggs. The shape is right and a couple of them even look like they once had a shell on them but I'm afraid that I'll have to agree with the others in saying that they're not eggs. The 'shell' material doesn't have the right texture and the 'grainy' interior isn't right either. Without giving away any secrets about your collecting locality, can you tell me if you're picking these up in the White River badlands? If so...you might want to take a look at this fossil in my gallery. It actually IS one of the rare bird eggs from South Dakota. -Joe 1 Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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