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Here are a few tips our team recently came up on how to distinguish a rock from a fossil! What tips and tricks do you use to help you in this process?
@linda-simkoff, I cannot tell exactly what this is from these pictures. Maybe try taking some clearer photos and posting them to the “What is it?” group. I will link this group below!
Your tips for telling a rock from a fossil are great. I also tell new collectors to look for symmetry. Any shape that you see alongside a mirror image of itself could be a fossil. Bilateral symmetry is just one kind. There is also radial symmetry like you see on a cross-section of many round fossils like crinoid stems and echinoids. Symmetry can be found in natural geological processes as well but most forms of life have it so it always deserves a close examination.
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