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BarryBobPosthole
05-10-2017, 06:41 PM
Julie and grandson Noah picked up this little nondescript rock at the playground.
Best I can figure this must be some sort of insect wing. I think anyway. Pretty cool what you can see if you're a noticer.
BKB
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Big Muddy
05-10-2017, 09:25 PM
It sorta resembles a small piece of coarse cloth material, or perhaps burlap....most insect wings have more random patterns....jmho.
Still quite interesting, however.
That's pretty cool. Think it's worth a dollar in north Caroline?
Chicken Dinner
05-11-2017, 08:02 AM
Down on the Bay you can find a bunch of fossilized sharks teeth and pieces of whale baleen. The coolest fossils I've found were snails that I found in Egypt near where the battle of El Alamein was. It was right after a sand storm and this whole dune was covered with them. The coolest part is that the shell is gone, and the fossil is basically a coarse sand that filled up the inside of the shell. I guess that whole part of North Africa was a seabed eons ago.
I'm gonna go with a piece of loincloth from Posthole's ancestors. You're welcome.
Big Muddy
05-11-2017, 09:13 AM
I'm gonna go with a piece of loincloth from Posthole's ancestors. You're welcome.
Must be the reason it's so tiny. ;)
Captain
05-11-2017, 05:20 PM
Must be the reason it's so tiny. ;)
Damn!!!!!!!
Thumper
05-11-2017, 07:50 PM
A Spandex loin cloth.
BarryBobPosthole
05-11-2017, 07:55 PM
I'm not sure how a piece of cloth gets fossilized in a rock. I guess it could be though.
Check out this photo of a fossilized wing from the innerwebs.
BkB
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Thumper
05-11-2017, 08:23 PM
The whole point is, if he's anything like I was as a kid, this could very well spark an interest in rock and/or fossil collecting. Kind'a like the ones in his grandpa's haid! ;)
quercus alba
05-11-2017, 08:29 PM
A Spandex loin cloth.
Maybe Arty's people were from Oklahoma
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