natures art #16
Dec 18, 2011 19:10:35 #
ok Howie got em. I hope they are identifiable...
We were somewhere within about an hour of Capalaba, Australia if that helps. Looks like petrified pooh ...im trying to remember if we found it in half or if it was a whole that was cracked in half for our benefit but it was 1988 and I cant remember now.
We were somewhere within about an hour of Capalaba, Australia if that helps. Looks like petrified pooh ...im trying to remember if we found it in half or if it was a whole that was cracked in half for our benefit but it was 1988 and I cant remember now.
Dec 18, 2011 21:57:34 #
rivernan wrote:
ok Howie got em. I hope they are identifiable...
We were somewhere within about an hour of Capalaba, Australia if that helps. Looks like petrified pooh ...im trying to remember if we found it in half or if it was a whole that was cracked in half for our benefit but it was 1988 and I cant remember now.
We were somewhere within about an hour of Capalaba, Australia if that helps. Looks like petrified pooh ...im trying to remember if we found it in half or if it was a whole that was cracked in half for our benefit but it was 1988 and I cant remember now.
I can say it's not copalite ( dino dung ) but it was sawn and polished and opalized with calcite in the center that happens to once organic material like petrafied wood and all types of fossils when calcite salts replace organic matter turning it to rock, my next Fossil thread will show some good examples, and yes it could be an egg, nice piece. Here is a fossilized leg joint of a taper like mammal that lived 60 million years ago, notice not only the hard bone was fossilized but the soft marrow was also.
fossilized bone and marrow, enlarge so you can see the marrow
Dec 18, 2011 22:30:54 #
howie wrote:
For you rockhounders, just sharing a few more specimans from my collection...nothing fancy just nature doing her thing...
What more can be said that has not already been said.
Magnificent.
Ian
Dec 18, 2011 22:41:18 #
ianhargraves1066 wrote:
What more can be said that has not already been said.
Magnificent.
Ian
howie wrote:
For you rockhounders, just sharing a few more specimans from my collection...nothing fancy just nature doing her thing...
What more can be said that has not already been said.
Magnificent.
Ian
thanks Ian...and I forgot to mention the fossil is 7"
Dec 19, 2011 06:30:48 #
wow...thanks...so maybe it is a dino egg...which would be a lot better than dino pooh, I think. It is amazing the expertise here on uhh that goes way beyond photography. I hope you had time to check out that link....seems like there is much more than the rock collection at that museum for folks with your interest. thanks again. I look forward to seeing more fossils.
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