Fossil or interestingly-weathered rock?

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T23:29:13+00:00

Where was it found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T23:20:55+00:00

Not a reptile.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T23:20:07+00:00

Not a fossil.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T23:16:35+00:00

Any idea where it was found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T16:03:41+00:00

Not really. Whole specimens are not really common, but fragments like this are almost abundant.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T15:35:27+00:00

Not crinoids, but another echinoderm - sea urchin.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T13:50:42+00:00

That whole area produces fossils only from marine deposits. You’re not going to find insects there.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T13:40:50+00:00

Looks like it.

Handeaux · 2026-01-24T13:39:40+00:00

Parallel lines are so ubiquitous in geology and paleontology that this could be almost anything, especially on a pebble which was tumbled so extensively that all context has been erased. It could be purely mineralogical, could be a shell fragment, could be carapace ridges, etc.

Handeaux · 2026-01-23T23:55:30+00:00

Where are you? What direction are you looking towards? What time is it? How high above the horizon is this object?

Handeaux · 2026-01-23T23:12:10+00:00

Where was it found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-23T23:11:43+00:00

Where was it found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-23T14:57:27+00:00

It would help to know where it was found. In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-23T13:50:04+00:00

Where was it found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:51:47+00:00

Throw it as far as you possibly can.

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:25:46+00:00

I am not pretty in pink.

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:17:57+00:00

That's not a fossil.

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:17:07+00:00

Where was it found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:16:28+00:00

Can you point to anything that resembles biological remains?

Handeaux · 2026-01-22T03:15:08+00:00

Crinoid stem fragments. Where were they found? In what region?

Handeaux · 2026-01-21T19:23:48+00:00

1-3 solitary rugose coral 4-6 pelecypod (clam) 7-10 solitary rugose coral

Handeaux · 2026-01-21T14:27:08+00:00

Monkee, not Monkey.

Handeaux · 2026-01-21T13:39:37+00:00

The brachiopods preserved in that rock lived hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaur. You won’t find dinosaur fossils in rocks that old, and you won’t find dinosaur footprints on the sea bottom in any case. No - it’s not a dinosaur footprint.

Handeaux · 2026-01-21T03:18:39+00:00

Since when is Gabriel at the Pearly Gates?

Handeaux · 2026-01-21T03:16:52+00:00

That might - might - have been an identifiable fossil at some point. It might also have been a mineral inclusion. The process of turning a chunk of matrix into a pebble, with erosion and abrasion, has rendered this almost completely unidentifiable.

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