✅ SOLVED Possible dinosaur egg????

[male_2952]

Could anyone help me identify this? I live in West Virginia and was walking on my parents property and found this rock. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[smokeythecat]

The inner part is the fossil. It doesn't look so much like a dino egg but more like a coprolite.

 

[Jason in Enid]

no, its not any form or part of a fossil.

 

[old digger]

My assumption is that it is possibly some type of plant or animal mater that was encased in a mud that hardened and later split.

 

[flinthunter]

It looks like it could be an ironstone nodule similar to the ones found in the Mazon Creek formation in Northeastern Illinois. When split in half the Mazon Creek nodules contain imprints of plant, insect, fish, and other interesting items from 300 million years ago.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I'm thinking a concretion that formed around that jumble of small tube worm ( marine fossils ) casings.

 

[Deftone]

Meh. Another rock another day.

 

[Molewacker]

Meh. Another rock another day.

More than 50 years ago, my uncle showed me a display of rocks that I may have said "Meh" while viewing. Then the lights went out and the UV came on showing the colors that were hidden in the minerals. This inspired me into a life long love of mineralogy.

I see in this "Rock" the chance to inspire the finders curiosity in Paleontology- so it's not "meh, just another rock."

IMHO

 

[randazzo1]

I would have it checked out at a local geology museum. The roundness and texture on the skin are unusual. I wouldn’t rule out some sort of petrified fossilized egg until an expert chimed in. Could easily see the mess of substance in the middle being a partially developed fetus (bones and whatnot) and the texture on the outside reminds me of a kiwi fruit lol

 

[male_2952]

Thank you all for the quick response. I'm going to try to have someone look at it and I will get back to you guys with the findings.