Fossilized Skin?

[Smokehouse_83]

Found this when I was a kid in Iowa and just rediscovered it at my mothers yesterday. Could it be fossilized skin? I looked at pics on google and it looks like some specimens.

 

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[Jason in Enid]

The chance of that are probably about a billion to 1. Only a couple verifiable examples of petrified skin from any fossil ever found.

 

[worldtalker]

Found this when I was a kid in Iowa and just rediscovered it at my mothers yesterday. Could it be fossilized skin? I looked at pics on google and it looks like some specimens.

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Is it rock hard?

 

[Mine Shaft]

If its dinosaur skin your a rich man, lol.

 

[Ninjafossils]

Concretion

 

[digger460]

I'll throw this out there. Tortoise shell.

 

[Jason in Enid]

I'll throw this out there. Tortoise shell.

Ooh, you made me think of something. It may not be tortoise shell, but could be a scute! The 2 angled lines with a rough arc at one end kind of lean towards that direction, although I have zero idea which animal it would be from.

 

[worldtalker]

Looks like old dried old paint.


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