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James Race posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 9 months ago
3 years, 9 months ago3 years, 9 months agoJames Race has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
James Race posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 9 months ago
James Race has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
Yepperz! Most likely bone (lick it, if it sticks to your tongue it’s bone); or a schist; or a bone replaced by sand and schist chemicals.
Hip of some bovine-like creature, with flat bones
Greetings @james-race ! Do you have any photos from different angle? It would help to identify the specimen better. Grand Prairie is surrounded by Late Cretaceous and Pleistocene strata. But, I agree with @lisa-craig that it appears at first glance to be from an ungulate of some variety.
Is it lightweight or does it feel and weigh more like a rock? P.S. Schist is a metamorphic rock (i.e. shale or similar rock that has been altered by heat and pressure), it does not replace bone or other fossils. See: https://geology.com/rocks/schist.shtml
Isn’t that a Brachiopod?
l agree with kyle, it looks like a brachiopod shell. It could have disintegrated and been replaced with that grainy rock
I disagree I do not believe it to be brachiopod this is bone of some sort I have another bone of the exact color and crystallization effect
If you look closely at the back you can see the state and you or some sort of skin tissue as it’s flattened out like you would see on a fish
It has the hinge at the top and the shell underneath.
That is just other shells added in after
Hey @james-race ! I’m not totally sure that this is a fossi. While your initial photo looked promising, your subsequent photos from other angles make it seem more like a mineralized sedimentary rock. I’d not see anything that would suggest organic structure such as capillary marks in bone, etc. If somehow it somehow is a fossil, then it has been badly weathered and degraded.
Wish I could post a video on here to show the comparisons and the details it has