fossils found in va. need help!

[ATpro5]

Hey everyone i live in southwest va. While metal detecting i sometimes stumble upon fossils. If anyone could tell me anything about these id greatly appreciate it.

 

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[Ninjafossils]

Not sure what the first thing is. The black object is a cannon bone from a horse or camel. And the object with little divets looks like the cast from a fossil tree, maybe a cycad.

 

[arnofarrell]

I agree with Ninja.

 

[ATpro5]

Thanks guys. Does it look fossilized? Feels heavy

 

[Harry Pristis]

Hey everyone i live in southwest va. While metal detecting i sometimes stumble upon fossils. If anyone could tell me anything about these id greatly appreciate it.

An equine horse has only one functioning toe, so there would not be a bifurcated end of its cannon bone. A camel has a distinctive split end. The bone is the distal end of a bovid (bison or cow) metacarpal, or "cannon bone."

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[ATpro5]

Sooo... Probably not a fossil? If its not I'm chucking it back in the creek haha

 

[Charl]

The fossil tree cast is Pennsylvanian in age. I think a cast of Sigillaria sp.

Sigillaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or else, Lepidodendron sp., one or the other...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron