BloodMoon
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Found this while on a hike with my son. Didn’t even notice what was on/in the back until cleaning it today. Any ideas at all? Could it possibly be a fossil of some sort? Doesn’t look like it to me.
What in the WORLD IS THIS? And HOW did “THEY” do it?
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Found this while on a hike with my son. Didn’t even notice what was on/in the back until cleaning it today. Any ideas at all? Could it possibly be a fossil of some sort? Doesn’t look like it to me.
Back-of-the-boat
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It is a crinoid fossil in matrix.http://www.thefossilforum.com/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-15749-0-73033400-1404179038.jpg here is another in a different rock matrix.
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Very cool find.
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They did it like Back-of-the-Boat said. Fossilization.
That's called a "trace fossil" because it is an internal mold formed from the mineralization of the voids inside the animal; which did not fossilize as well.
That's called a "trace fossil" because it is an internal mold formed from the mineralization of the voids inside the animal; which did not fossilize as well.
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