NAUfrogger Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Has a cylinidrical shape and odd "ridges" or points on one end, has a "core" that is a different color running through the middle - sort of a rusty brown color and the outside is a whitish color. Found on beach in uppermost NW of Washington state. You can be hit by a boat and die You can be attacked by a shark and die OR you could fall off the couch and die GET OFF THE COUCH - go scuba! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Your last pic seems to show a worn pentagon. Piece of crinoid. KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Ground sloth broken tooth? A Baculites? Too blurry for ID! Please, try to post some better pics, this are too fuzzy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAUfrogger Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 Having grown up in Tulsa, I know crinoids and this is nothing like any crinoid I have ever seen. However, the suggestion of a ground sloth tooth led me to do some research - totally looks like it could be a broken piece of one (with the root being that middle section) and that would account for the odd ridges on the one end BUT...my search led me to another interesting find - an article about fossils being sound on a San Diego beach of a western camel - see pic. The teeth look almost exactly like what I found. Compare. Thoughts? You can be hit by a boat and die You can be attacked by a shark and die OR you could fall off the couch and die GET OFF THE COUCH - go scuba! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Brighter, sharper, closer pics will be needed. If your camera has a Macro setting, that (and better light) will help. Otherwise, to me it looks as much like a shrimp burrow as anything else "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...
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