Found in sand bar

[bruce]

Looking for artifacts found in sand by river cleaned up good what is it? Thanks for the effort.

 

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[old digger]

It isn't a fossil. Your item looks similar to hardened (clay or mud) rock infused with calcite crystals. There are a lot of this type of material in my area.

 

[bruce]

Here is a few more pictures, Thanks old digger. I respect your opinion but I see something more. bruce

 

[Jason in Enid]

Sorry, not a fossil

 

[Deft Tones]

Saw it in half and let's see.


Dinosaur poop, perhaps?

 

[aa battery]

ya know it looks like a skull with bone of the neck.

 

[Brian T. Booth]

It's a quartz nodule.

 

[Inyo]

It's a quartz nodule.

Definitely not a quartz nodule. Looks like a fine-grained sandstone or mudstone to my eye, though it contains no obvious paleontologic material. Too, I agree with old digger--looks like calcite crystals are present.

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[Brian T. Booth]

Inyo,
All of that rock is some type of Quartz.