10thumbs
spending too much on rocks
I want to be reincarnated as a dog.
Member since March 2009
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Post by 10thumbs on Jul 10, 2009 8:45:12 GMT -5
My little rock hounds found a bunch of stuff for me last week on the Lake Erie shore. An overwhelming amount of useless shale (but don't tell them that), some cool little rocks that I'll tumble eventually, and one fossil. I'm not sure what the heck the fossil is. Maybe the top of a hip joint? Regardless, do we save it as a specimen or cut it up for cabs. I see a lot of stuff on here called dino bone but I don't know it's actually fossil bone or if that's just a name (like bullseye, lace, etc).
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Post by texaswoodie on Jul 10, 2009 9:25:32 GMT -5
Dino bone is (was) real bone. If you can post a pic of the fossil, there are people here that can help you identify it. Bone will have a certain cell structure. If it is a bone and is identifiable, you probably don't want to cut it. Most of the dino bone that we cut is just large chunks of unidentifiable bone.
Curt
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Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 10, 2009 12:42:54 GMT -5
Really like the ammonites and scaphites.................
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SirRoxalot
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since October 2003
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Post by SirRoxalot on Jul 19, 2009 15:22:27 GMT -5
Not a whole lot of vertebrate fossils known from the Erie shore. Check your local library, there's actually a book or two on collecting and ID'ing beach pebbles. Post a pic, maybe we can help.
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