bcrockhound
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Post by bcrockhound on Jul 12, 2014 20:19:01 GMT -5
My girlfriend found this piece of what appears to be petrified wood at a local beach. We wondered why the "cut" on one end looks so smooth, like it had been sawed? Is some petrified wood not very old, or is this something else? Thanks for any help! Dry Wet Bottom
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roundrock
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Post by roundrock on Jul 12, 2014 20:24:35 GMT -5
BC, that may be an animal vertebra instead of petrified wood. The inside sure looks like bone.
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Post by kap on Jul 12, 2014 20:45:04 GMT -5
I agree it looks like some type of vertebra!
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Post by Rockoonz on Jul 13, 2014 0:54:53 GMT -5
I have a couple estate finds that were identified as whale vertebra. Yours look pretty much the same.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 13, 2014 15:16:46 GMT -5
Looks like a whale bone! Verebra for sure,great score!!!
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bcrockhound
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Post by bcrockhound on Jul 13, 2014 15:26:14 GMT -5
Thanks for all the help! Is it normal for whale vertebra to be shaped kind of like a parallelogram? My pictures didn't really catch that angle.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 13, 2014 15:55:33 GMT -5
I think I'm going to have to disagree with the others. I'm thinking possibly a leg bone section. Could you post another pic of that last one ? This time wet or lightly oil it, and shoot straight at the end. This is a whale vertebra.
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Post by kap on Jul 13, 2014 16:23:09 GMT -5
They find Shark Vertebra in the quarry's that I got to that look just like it almost always tube shaped like that.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jul 13, 2014 19:15:45 GMT -5
Don your whale vertebra is from the front to mid spine where the ribs attach. Closer to the tail of a whale they are round.
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bcrockhound
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Post by bcrockhound on Jul 15, 2014 16:43:41 GMT -5
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bonnielou
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Post by bonnielou on Jul 28, 2014 1:39:50 GMT -5
That looks like petrified potato. Lived on a potato farm and seekinsert code here
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