...And now for something really old

[DizzyDigger]

This critter was around when some of that ancient gold
was just getting deposited...



Some kind of prehistoric lizard creature...

My 10 year old grandson (the one that prospects) sent me this.
Seems he and dad were at a garage sale and there was a 5 gal. bucket
of rocks for $5.00, and he couldn't resist. In the bucket he found
a number of large agates that have great color, and several of these
plates (shale?) with various fossils embedded in them. He told
my wife that "Papa needs this for his collection"...

 

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[goldenmojo]

Cool find. I have some 85 million year old fossils I found in the Bald Hills West of Redding.

 

[Jason in Enid]

That's a very cool fossil! I think it might be a fish, it appears to have a fin just behind the head. Very strange, but that just makes it better.

 

[B H Prospector]

What a wonderful grandson you have there.

 

[huntsman53]

That's a very cool fossil! I think it might be a fish, it appears to have a fin just behind the head. Very strange, but that just makes it better.

You may very well be correct! The shale rock or pic needs to be rotated 180 degrees.


Frank

 

[goldenIrishman]

Very cool fossil Dizzy! I have to admit that from the title of the thread I thought it was going to be a self portrait. Glad to see I wasn't too far off.




You have to admit..... you left yourself wide open for that zinger!

 

[Jason in Enid]

You may very well be correct! The shale rock or pic needs to be rotated 180 degrees.


Frank

LOL, I was holding my computer upside to look at it!

 

[IMPDLN]

Too bad you never find something like that with a nugget laying next to it in the rock, lol. Now wouldn't that be something to find a fossil with an attached nugget from the same time. Dennis

 

[DizzyDigger]

You may very well be correct! The shale rock or pic needs to be rotated 180 degrees.
Frank

Here ya go...

 

[DDancer]

You don't think your grandson was trying to send you a message do ya? *grin* Very cool of him to think of ya and send such an interesting fossil.

 

[DizzyDigger]

You don't think your grandson was trying to send you a message
do ya? *grin* Very cool of him to think of ya and send such an interesting fossil.

Holy crap...I ain't that old!

Nah..he's just a great kid! He's had his own challenges in life, but
he's doing good though, and will grow up to be a good man.

 

[Hoser John]

Extremely nice fossil find and for that price a steal for sure. Congrats and encourage that boy!!John