Fossilized Skin?

Smokehouse_83 · Apr 30, 2018

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.

Jason in Enid · Apr 30, 2018

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 · Apr 30, 2018

Smokehouse_83 said:
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 · Apr 30, 2018

If its dinosaur skin your a rich man, lol.

Ninjafossils · May 3, 2018

Concretion

digger460 · May 4, 2018

I'll throw this out there. Tortoise shell.

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Jason in Enid · May 4, 2018

digger460 said:
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.