🔎 UNIDENTIFIED is this a fossil?

[paulmars]

Ive had it since I was a kit. I dont know where it was found. I was told it was a fossil.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

I don’t think so. It looks like conglomerate rock that has been polished.

 

[Red-Coat]

I don’t think so. It looks like conglomerate rock that has been polished.

Agree. The clasts are mainly subrounded rather than angular, so it's a conglomerate rather than a breccia. It is possible for conglomerates to contain fossil remnants, but I don't see any pattern or structure that's suggestive of biological origins

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[tamrock]

Looks close to being an agetized Dino bone.

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[Red-Coat]

Looks close to being an agetized Dino bone.

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Interesting thought and I toyed with that possibility for a while but couldn't persuade myself that's what it is. The unpolished edge looks like it is composed of an aggregation of gravel-like clasts and that's not typical of fossil bone.

 

[paulmars]

Interesting, cuz as a kid i was told it was a dino fossil. I didnt say that before cuz i was so sure it wasnt. kids will believe anything. How can i be sure?

 

[tamrock]

This is a piece agatized bone I found on the Colorado Plateau visiting the Urainum mines around the early to mid 2010s. It is a place known to find such specimens. I stopped by a rock shop that's been business in Canon City, Colorado for years and the fella that owes it said it was indeed a Dino bone. He said for $10.00 he'd slice it. He preferred the dark side of it and even described it as having a nice deep blue color. I asked him what he valued it at and just said he would put a price of maybe $40 to $50 if it was sold out of his shop.

 

[paulmars]

Mine don't look like that

 

[tamrock]

Interesting, cuz as a kid i was told it was a dino fossil. I didnt say that before cuz i was so sure it wasnt. kids will believe anything. How can i be sure?

Well there are quite a few online stores selling these agatized specimens. Maybe send pictures to a couple and get their opinion if they're willing to offer one.

 

[opalboy]

Looks like dino bone to me! It can be pretty funky!

 

[bbrosen]

edge view tells me aggregate , i am a dino hunter, from the photos alone thats my opinion, id really have to see it in person, small possibility it could be agatized bone, but I am not sure. hang onto it and maybe take it to a museum and see if some one there might know

 

[opalboy]

Here’s a bone I have that looks very similar!

 

[opalboy]

The funky one I was thinking of is the white bone on the left.