Crazy egg rocks! Palm size. Found in Houston around 1984 in backyard.

[DrgnHrtKat]

These matching rocks were found in my backyard, in Houston, around 1984.
I have always wondered what they could be!

 

[USMC Reaper]

Very cool. I have no idea but someone here will know what these are and let you know. Welcome aboard.

 

[DrgnHrtKat]

Thanks for the welcome!! And for your service!!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Wow!

I'd be very interested in them too. I've never seen anything like them, and very obviously they are pretty darned different.

Welcome to TNet, I look forward to the answers you receive on this - and I'm certain you'll receive a direction to take in your further research. TNet has good people here.

 

[digger460]

Will be watching this. First though was fossilized dino poop, but inside Cool Find and welcome.

 

[P.ALLEN]

Those are quite unique, please get those checked out by a geologist or paleontologist. Please add a quarter next to the photo for scale. Even if they are not dino related they may have crystalline structure inside.

 

[RudyT]

Those are cool!! Keep us posted. By the way I live in Laporte just 20 miles south of you!! Welcome.

 

[dognose]

Very interesting.

How close where these two when found?
Had the ground been disturbed prior to being found? If so how?

Where these found on the top of the ground? While digging? What exactly?

I suggest having someone at a university or natural history museum in your area look at them.

The fourth photo showing the one item with the white band at the top from the side give the appearance of two different materials with a small gap between them. Are the two different materials bonded tightly together?

Does the two different looking materials both appear to be a natural stone material?


In a small test area, try performing a Mohs Hardness test.

 

[oldkoot]

They almost look like a GEODE of some type not really sure though

 

[3cylbill]

I wouldn't be suprised if they were dinosaur eggs...petrified....

 

[Yak1366]

Very interesting!! Welcome to TNet!!!

 

[Tony in SC]

Could be an ancient seed pod?

 

[lookingharder]

I wouldn't be suprised if they were dinosaur eggs...petrified....

I went to Google and searched Fossilized eggs, Looked at images, and there are several that look really similar. I agree, I would have a paleontologist look at it.

GREAT FIND

 

[DrgnHrtKat]

They were found while digging and leveling an extremely neglected backyard. I think the house/neighborhood was built in the early 1940’s. This area of Houston is flanked with 3 bayous and in the 40’s would have been the leading edge of development for the city.
So, yes the ground had been disturbed, first when it was built, and two times that we worked on the yard. Possibly when we were digging for drainage...one or two feet?
I don’t remember if we found them at the same time, so I don’t know how close together they were.
The whitish line that runs thru is crystal looking and is very bonded together with the rest. Completely different tho. The tops and the bottoms look very different, as well.

 

[P.ALLEN]

if they are not eggs, then my educated guess is rough Jasper

 

[Jason in Enid]

very unique. I've seen thousands of fossils and millions of rocks and I'm stumped. Whatever they are, I don't think they were originally from your yard. They seem to have been removed from a rock matrix.

I'm curios what some of the more educated fossil guys think.

 

[DrgnHrtKat]

Size and closeup of white, crystal like, line all sides

A more closeup view.

 

[A2coins]

Wow I hope those are something really cool like eggs that would be amazing. Thanks for sharing those with us Tommy

 

[A2coins]

Also welcome to the tnet Family

 

[Cruisin]

Really looks like a fossilized egg. Very cool!