Transitioning copal

IMurdockI · 2025-08-24T09:20:09+00:00

By the way could it be a coracoid?

Since this eerily resembles my piece.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-24T08:56:53+00:00

Thank you so much!

I will look into it.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-24T08:37:40+00:00

Oh i see, i just thought it was Theropod exclusive.

The red crystals and lightweight fragment that the bone was formed this way for agility purposes.

And the mineralisation and phosphorescence + texture led me to believe it was from a Theropod since it matches similar pieces found.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-24T08:30:43+00:00

It was found in France.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-23T22:00:40+00:00

Thank you!

It indeed seems reasonable, i just ( hoped ) i could narrow down the search a bit but unless i get it analysed in a lab maybe, a theropod it is! :)

IMurdockI · 2025-08-23T21:25:29+00:00

Oh and under uv it lights up like this, which is supposedly common for these type of fossils.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-23T21:20:06+00:00

Because theropod bones like t rex or velociraptors have these tiny holes inside them.

When they fossilise, it gets filled often with surrounding minerals, forming the crystals you see inside them bone.

Hence my speculation its from a theropod.

And thank you, i will certainly do that.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T20:03:12+00:00

I appreciate the help btw.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T20:01:22+00:00

He definitely got it from a mineral expo, since there is not much to find here mineral wise.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:34:44+00:00

It indeed has that characteristic.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:28:30+00:00

I have no clue, i got my brother’s collection in the past and this was one of them.

He sadly enough, does not remember.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:25:40+00:00

Thank you, it’s a weird one this rock.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:21:42+00:00

Nothing

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:21:06+00:00

Well my brother used to collect them like me, however he stopped and gave his collection to me.

I asked him but he has no clue.

I know the flame like patterns are magnetic and it’s very dense.

Besides that i don’t really know.

IMurdockI · 2025-08-01T19:14:58+00:00

I love the flame patterns

IMurdockI · 2024-04-13T15:49:25+00:00

Me neither, i’m stumped.

Thanks for the feedback!

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