Um found something a little different on the farm

[jamesp]

Coral heaven. Keep em coming.

[Peruano]

Great detail showing in those photos. They are beautiful unto themselves. Tom

[Fossilman]

Sorry,not bone...A nice piece of rock though...Thumbs up It cleaned up great!

[Fossilman]

If you scroll back to the past on this fossil forum,many pages-you will see photos of Dino bone and the cell structures..

[talkingstones]

Thanks Fossilman. Will do! Me thinks I needs to spend more time with coral identification too as we seem to have a bit of it here, lol! Bone would be cool but fossil is good too, especially when I can find it right here!!! Really, it doesn't matter so much what it is as that it is something. Makes walking the dogs a bit more of an adventure, lol!!!

James, I'm sure there will be more to come!!!

Tom, thanks! All stones have a story. You just have to figure it out and micro shooting is a help!!!

Finally, Ted, we gotta talk! Lol!!!

Catch you guys later!!!

Cathy

[inyo]

Mar 1, 2016 21:53:08 GMT -5 talkingstones said:

Ok, scrubbed up and took some extreme close ups. Think we might have some cell structure here.

No animal bone cellular structure there, in my opinion. Looks more like calcite, the crystal mineral manifestation of calcium carbonate, on a carbonate rock.

[inyo]

Images previously posted in this thread by "talkingstones":

Such concentrically laminated calcium carbonate accumulations typically suggest stromatolite developments--a blue-green algae whose kinds contributed significantly to the dramatic increase in earth's atmospheric oxygen a little over two billion years ago. If the specimen came from the Cincinnati area, it's probably late Ordovician in geologic age, around 455 million years old.

This looks like a pedicle valve from a Paleozoic Era brachiopod.

I see what appear to be the exteriors of a couple of brachiopods of at the top right of this particular chunk specimen.

[talkingstones]

Thanks Inyo! I'm inclined to agree on this one because of the swirling pattern throughout rather than straight. Also the structure of the cells is very, very small. Algae makes more sense than coral. Also thank you for the time frame info. Puts a whole new light on living on this farm!!!

[Fossilman]

Quote" Puts a whole new light on living on this farm!!! " Quote
Just don't sit on a bag of seed and wave at the Federal boys when they are driving away....LOL

[talkingstones]

Heard that Fossilman, lol!

[tandl]

Favosites - PERIOD

[Tom]

Cathy, my gut feeling is that it is a rock that looks like a bone shape. If you put some vinegar on it does it foam a bit? You may have to add it to your grocery list.

[talkingstones]

Hi Ted! I got ya! Tom, I've started hand polishing it and it's definitely fossil. I'm hand polishing due to the shape and it works pretty much like a Petoskey stone. Pattern in the cell structure of the piece is very small though.

[Tom]

Glad I am wrong and its a nice fossil!