Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 7, 2018 17:14:43 GMT -5
Howdy folks, This one came in the last bucket of Rio grande agate my buddy dropped off. I'm almost thinking this one is fossil bone, maybe mosasaur as that's the most common bone in Texas, or maybe something else. Interesting and the first like this I've seen. Opinions from an of you fossil folks? Thanks for lookin.....Mel  PS: Now that I look at the pic more, I'm kind thinking not bone because of the uneven parts that would have to be cell walls. Weird stuff anyway. |
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Post by fernwood on Feb 8, 2018 7:36:36 GMT -5
Yes, unique. Appears to have some cell structure, or oolites.
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 8, 2018 8:18:47 GMT -5
Awesome looking whatever it is! You can always send it to me  and I'll get my Pathologist friend and digging buddy to take a look. Dino bone cancer??? |
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fishnpinball
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Post by fishnpinball on Feb 8, 2018 9:50:37 GMT -5
Nice one. Cutting it would be more definitive but looks like bone.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 8, 2018 10:54:36 GMT -5
Only one way to find out Mel,put a window on that stone....Sure looks like some type of cell structure...
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Post by fernwood on Feb 8, 2018 14:03:49 GMT -5
Any chance of posting pics of the other sides? Or, do they look about the same as this one?
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 8, 2018 15:34:13 GMT -5
Off hand I'd say bone, but what do I know. Very cool at any rate.
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Post by HankRocks on Feb 8, 2018 17:02:23 GMT -5
Something about it is not quite right to be bone. Be curious to see if the color holds under the surface. It seems more agate-ish. The color is strange. Whatever it is, it has had a interesting journey!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 8, 2018 18:40:33 GMT -5
All sides of the stone are similar. What throws me is the portion that is non agate. Sightly softer than the little pink fortified cells as all the little agates are in relief and stand above the matrix, but it appears too irregular to be walls of the cellular structures you'd find in bone. Also seem too irregular to be oolitic formations. I'm leaning more towards a weird porous hunk of basalt??? shot full of tiny vesicles filled with tiny geodes and nodules. Under magnification, there do appear to be unfilled vesicles which would seem to support this but then I've seen plenty of bone with unfilled cells too. Whatever, it looks even stranger under my dissecting scope. Very odd piece.....Mel
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Post by fernwood on Feb 9, 2018 7:19:47 GMT -5
Could it be coprolite?
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and I'll get my Pathologist friend and digging buddy to take a look. Dino bone cancer??? 
