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porsche930dude 04-16-2020 06:34 AM

Fossils
 
There are alot of fossils on my land here are a few i found. Im mostly interested in finding out what the big round one is. Iv had it 20 years so i know its atleast that old :D

flatbutt 04-16-2020 06:35 AM

pic?

porsche930dude 04-16-2020 06:36 AM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1587047712.JPG
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1587047712.JPG

vash 04-16-2020 07:12 AM

Rebar!

GH85Carrera 04-16-2020 07:16 AM

I have a fossil trilobite. It is just a little 1.5 inch long one. I bought it from someone long ago. It is cool to hold something that was alive millions of years ago.

ckissick 04-16-2020 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 10826702)
I have a fossil trilobite. It is just a little 1.5 inch long one. I bought it from someone long ago. It is cool to hold something that was alive millions of years ago.

As UCSB a geology student, I spent a month mapping the geology of a place called the Poleta Folds, in the White/Inyo Mountains, the next range east of the Sierra. There was a limestone formation that was about 550 million years old, and it was full of trilobite fossils. The coolest one was a fossil that lay at the end of the tracks it made walking its final, dying steps. Pretty amazing seeing where a creature died half a billion years ago.

Oh, and even though I'm a geologist, I don't know what those other fossils are, but the clam shell is a type of brachiopod.

KFC911 04-16-2020 07:48 AM

I thought this thread wuz about PPOT :)

Amail 04-16-2020 07:50 AM

Kinda looks like a broken egg with an ebryo.

porsche930dude 04-16-2020 08:11 AM

It does look like an egg but NY was under the ocean at some point and all the other fossils are shells and stuff. But I could have gotten it from our driveway rocks which are different im not sure where they were imported from.

ossiblue 04-16-2020 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Amail (Post 10826764)
Kinda looks like a broken egg with an ebryo.

I thought the same^^. Would make some sense as a fossilized reptile egg. When it comes to fossils, context is everything and it appears the OP can't be certain from where the fossil may have come so it may be anything, land or sea creature.

flatbutt 04-16-2020 09:32 AM

The brachiopod seems right. The other might just be an "inclusion" but the geologist would know better. The long "rebar" thingy could be a tubeworm but I'm just a hobbyist.

ckissick 04-16-2020 10:18 AM

The one on the right might be a seed or seed pod. Or a legume. It's blob-shaped but symmetrical.

ckissick 04-16-2020 10:22 AM

The "rebar" looks like a crinoid.

https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/three-crinoid-encrinus-liliiformis-fossils-alverdissen-germany


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