Found this fossil??

[MackDigger]

It looks like it to me but I am a total novice. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

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[MackDigger]

Anyone please?

 

[BadAdze]

Are you referring to the dark spots?

 

[MackDigger]

YeS I am

 

[BadAdze]

I am not an expert by no means, and in my opinion it looks like a mineral stain, or something of the sort from the photos you have. I could be wrong, and i could not be seeing detail that you see. If that is the case take a closer and clearer picture of the area you are referring to please.

 

[bigbry]

Could be a carbon deposit...... Often when the plants decay they leave behind a corbon fossil depositdehind in the shape of whatever plant life it would have been. Hard to tell tho from the photo...

 

[MackDigger]

I found it near a creek so I'm was thinking it looked like a tadpole or fish of some kind but now that you mention it it could be a plant. Think it's worth keeping?

 

[bigbry]

Absolutely...... Having both halves is neat. Besides its a great conversation piece. You can ask what your friends think it might be and get them into finding things also

 

[RiverWalker]

I found it near a creek so I'm was thinking it looked like a tadpole or fish of some kind but now that you mention it it could be a plant. Think it's worth keeping?

It could be a lot of things, it takes million of years for things to become fossilized. Just because it was found by a creek has nothing to do with what might be inside a rock near a creek. That creek wasn't even an idea when that rock was made. For all anyone knows it could be a scorpion if the area was a desert millions of years ago, or wherever the rock came from. I suggest you start reading about the local geology and first try to date the rock, then try to find out what sort of things lived when that rock wasn't a rock. Then maybe you can narrow things down a bit more.

 

[TJE]

It looks like it to me but I am a total novice. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

it does look possilbe, if the stone is close to the silurian age it could be a fish, seafloor plant, etc.....fish fossils from that age do look odd because they're 'jawless' and have strange shaped bodys!