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Post by MsAli on Jan 28, 2019 22:07:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 22:23:01 GMT -5
Ask your friend to set it in a warm spot on the floor and watch it for a couple hours. If it unrolls and crawls away, it is an armadillo.
OK, maybe not. But my first thought was some sort of concretion. Was it mentioned which part of Montana was the locale?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jan 28, 2019 22:35:37 GMT -5
Boy, it sure does look like a critter, doesn't it? The outside looks like gator skin.
Sorry, Ali, I got nothin'.
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Post by MsAli on Jan 28, 2019 22:37:10 GMT -5
Ask your friend to set it in a warm spot on the floor and watch it for a couple hours. If it unrolls and crawls away, it is an armadillo. OK, maybe not. But my first thought was some sort of concretion. Was it mentioned which part of Montana was the locale? He said he doesn't remember, but he is checkin g to see if his dad does
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Post by MsAli on Jan 28, 2019 22:38:27 GMT -5
It did look like skin to me at first, but its awfully thick.
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Post by MsAli on Jan 28, 2019 23:09:32 GMT -5
Ok he said off the 94 western part of Montana close the Idaho border
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jan 28, 2019 23:21:33 GMT -5
I'm really interested to see if anyone can ID that for you. It's intriguing.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 29, 2019 0:00:57 GMT -5
Very cool! No idea, but I'm thinking it's a slab of dinosaur hide.
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Post by johnw on Jan 29, 2019 0:11:43 GMT -5
MsAli.....Wow, what a fabulous piece of history. I am guessing the folks at the Smithsonian would have a good idea what is was ,why not ask them? Cheers, johnw
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Post by johnw on Jan 29, 2019 0:26:18 GMT -5
MsAli .....Wow, what a fabulous piece of history. I am guessing the folks at the Smithsonian would have a good idea what is was ,why not ask them? Cheers, johnw Follow up: I Googled pictures of Dinosaur Skin and got this image of fossilized skin. There is decidedly some resemblance.
Definitely look alikes, but the only question I have is how come the original sample looks like half a ball? Maybe it was in a river at one time and got tumbled? Cheers, johnw
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Post by johnw on Jan 29, 2019 0:39:14 GMT -5
Very cool! No idea, but I'm thinking it's a slab of dinosaur hide. rockjunquie : I am thinking you nailed it, congratulations. Cheers, johnw
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 29, 2019 2:27:32 GMT -5
Ask your friend to set it in a warm spot on the floor and watch it for a couple hours. If it unrolls and crawls away, it is an armadillo. OK, maybe not. But my first thought was some sort of concretion. Was it mentioned which part of Montana was the locale? Petrified armadillo was my first thought.
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Post by Peruano on Jan 29, 2019 7:05:49 GMT -5
I'm tempted to say that in nearly every case that I can recall, reptile scales are not random or nearly as erratic and variable in size. They tend to form in radiating, or alternating, or parallel, or gradiating series, not willy-nilly some round, some hexagonal, some odd shapes. I'd say its geological not biological, and you can give points or not for the fact that I spent a lot of time studying reptile scales as a job.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 29, 2019 7:45:03 GMT -5
Maybe fossil lake/sea bottom? Agree on the random patterns. Whatever, it is pretty cool looking.
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Post by mud on Jan 29, 2019 8:25:50 GMT -5
A cool find. Interesting that it was able to get (more or less) the same appearance on all sides.
He didn't find it in the back of an old refrigerator in western Montana, did he?!?!
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Post by MsAli on Jan 29, 2019 8:28:26 GMT -5
A cool find. Interesting that it was able to get (more or less) the same appearance on all sides. He didn't find it in the back of an old refrigerator in western Montana, did he?!?! Said it was sitting on a Butte He also found what I think is a Native American tool in the same area
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Post by Pat on Jan 29, 2019 9:53:52 GMT -5
In several of your photos, I see a pinhole. I wonder what that is all about and if it is significant. Interesting find. Thanks.
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Post by MsAli on Jan 29, 2019 10:19:16 GMT -5
Odd
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Post by MsAli on Jan 29, 2019 10:29:00 GMT -5
Other side
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 29, 2019 11:52:03 GMT -5
Septarian nodule most likely. It's very cool.
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