Fossil in a arrowhead

[Cosmo]

Found in a field. Arrowhead looks to be imbedded with a fossil. The indentation looks like it goes about half way into the fossil. Any thoughts?

 

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[NC field hunter]

I have a big scraper with a shell fossil in it. The little shell fell out, but I still have it. I'm looking for that piece at present to show you. These finds are cool!

 

[GatorBoy]

Chert is loaded with fossils.
That's a cool one though.
Its called a fossil inclusion.
Chert was basically formed with skeletons of dead sea organisms.
Sometimes the inclusions will have lots of tiny crystals in them.

 

[Greenwood Charlie]

That's wild!! Cool find!

 

[Twitch]

Very nice point. I believe that's Burlington chert with a crinoid fossil in it. Crinoids are a fairly common fossil to be found in that material. To have the fossil featured that prominently in the point is a cool feature. I'm assuming it came from IL / MO area? I believe it's somewhere between late Archaic and middle Woodland.

Welcome to the site.

 

[NC field hunter]

This isn't the one I mentioned earlier in this thread. I don't think I have that one here at my house. However, this blade is better than the scraper any way. The wart on the side is a fossil that is still hanging in there. At the break, one has fallen out.







Looking for the scraper, I found stuff I had forgotten about. Makes me feel like I had a successful hunt. Thanks for starting this thread!!

 

[rock]

The ones I find are black flint with quartz crystals running through them. If you can find one whole they look nice but the crystals make the flint weak and they are usually broken at that area. Yous looked almost like a H in the arrowhead. Interesting find

 

[monsterrack]

I agree with Twitch, That is a crinoid stem (very old plant) but I have never found one that showed the split of the stem. That's a great find, and one of kind in my book

 

[Johnny X]

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