Can anyone help identify some of my finds?

[firehorse12]

This feels hollow

 

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[tennessee digger]

No idea but pretty neat finds. You need to maybe post them on the fossil forum. Tennessee digger

 

[baspinall]

Third from last sure looks like a tooth, Deer? Some of the other "stone"? ones are strange looking. Like #5 & 8.

Brian

 

[firehorse12]

I know creepy but cool! Makes ya scratch your head and go hmmmm!!??

 

[Gunrunner61]

post them on the fossil forum, they will help id them for you,...............HH

 

[Jarl]

I have many near identical specimens that you do, found by creeks and rivers. I don't know what all of them are yet, so, if someone id's them for you, I will have to follow that thread. Anyway, in order from left to right(in reading fashion)

1. Could be a concretion of the 'indian paint pot' variety. Shake it close to your ear and see if it rattles.
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. Highly suspect as maybe a dino fragment, then again, I could be full of it. Might just be solidified mud or something.
6. Could very well be fragment of a 'nutting stone' that was highly worn before it was broken or discarded(native activity).
7. Reminds me of a tooth, however, I don't think that is what it is(would like to know if it is though). But it may be a trace fossil of some sort. Perhaps even a weathered fragment of the innards of something. Then again, perhaps just a piece of limestone.
8. Highly suspect, perhaps, as maybe an Araucaria? I don't know for sure.
9. Maybe a weathered piece of Actinocyathus?
10. Maybe flint. I have some of these and usually always covered with limestone layer.
11. ?
12. Very likely a tooth, if not, a weathered fragment of Halysite colony. Or neither.
13. Perhaps pottery shard. Likely, if found by a river(indicative of native activity).
14. (top) Pottery or Asbestos fragment. (bottom) Very likely a Halysite colony.

Ok, so, I don't profess or propose to know any of this for sure, so only take what I say as a kind and interested suggestion, as I am no expert. Nice finds!

 

[Jarl]

Check the geological record for your area, or where these were found. That will tell you at least at what time period the fossil record covers. Also, the history of indigenous peoples of the region and their technology and habits.

 

[firehorse12]

Thanks for looking - I do live in Glen Rose, Texas - its known for Dino's but I've been finding things all around on the river. Love it. I've loved picking up cool rocks since I was a kid and have a backyard full of them you'll have to show me some of your finds!

 

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[Jarl]

Cool! I did post a few in Fossils/Rocks and Minerals on here. Although only one I think was from a living creature. But, yes, I can scour through some things and post some more, been planning on doing that anyway. Yep! Rock hounding is life. I could spend my life just finding things in the wilds either through metal detecting or just 'looking' for it.

 

[Jarl]

I Wikipedia'd 'Glen Rose Formation', may be some answers for you in there.

 

[firehorse12]

Thanks - and yes, I'm hooked!

 

[silversurfer1111]

Picture number 7 is a rock used to process Animal tendons. they would take the animal tendons and rip them apart. then they would take strands of the animals tendon and rub it across the rock to soften up the tendons creating the grooves. picture number 1 looks like a game stone. picture number for is interesting I have 3 rocks just like that.