I Had Six Minutes....

[Nana40]

Shopping today and six minutes to spare. So I went over to the hill they had cut out to see what I might come up with....got a few neat fossils.

I know a few of them are ferns but don't know anything about the others. The second picture, just popped the rock open and there it was! Love finding these...hate not knowing what they are.

Nana

 

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[stoney56]

Nana, I'd hazard a guess that it's a trilobite.

http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/1767-trilobites-staple-food-of-the-cambrian-period.html

 

[Boobydoo]

Dang, very cool.
If you stayed ten minute, you would have had a shopping cart full...lol.
Nice eyes there Nana. I love rocks, especially fossils! More please!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Nana40]

Neat Stoney! If it is....then my first to find!!!

Thank you!!!!

They are everywhere there Scooby! Would love to get to spend the day looking but...never enough time in the day.

 

[jd161616]

not bad for 6 minutes....not bad at all!

im not sure if thats a trilo...does it have the characteristic ridges on the fossil? looks like a prehistoric beetle or something

 

[Bebop]

Can't tell much by the photo but it looks like a seed to me. maybe a close up would help.

 

[gord]

Judging from the lighter images on each side, what we see is the inside of the trilobite exo-skeleton and whatever it ate last.
Gord

 

[Nana40]

HMMMM....
When I opened the rock, some of the black part of the fossil was in tiny bits and falling off. I cropped the picture...hope this helps. Thanks for the replies!

Nana

 

[bomber]

WOW!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Really Cool Nana ! I love those rocks too. Too bad you couldnt spend the day there!

 

[Shortstack]

HMMMM....
When I opened the rock, some of the black part of the fossil was in tiny bits and falling off. I cropped the picture...hope this helps. Thanks for the replies!

Nana

The light figure in the stone that surrounds the object looks like the shell of a nut. That would make the black stuff the "meat" of the nut. You mentioned that the stony piece was filled with leave fossils.

 

[tac512ltd]

Those are great ! If i might, What area of Alabama are you in?

 

[kraken]

Could you put a coin beside it to see how large it is? Also it does look like a fruit of some sort, there seems to be no attachment point.
One last thing, did you find this in a Cretaceous deposit? I will sure be glad to get out and do some hunting, dang flu! By the way, if it is a fruit, (I am doing the research now), they are quite rare.......

 

[fossis]

Nana, the rock in the upper right has (Annularia), leaves of the 'Calamites' plant, not sure about the other fossil.

Fossis...............

 

[spiffyman]

Excellent specimens, i would like to find some of those

 

[Nana40]

Well thanks for all that info, ya'll!

I'm in Blount county, but these were found in Jefferson county, TA.

I think I've put this fossil away in the basement, Kraken. :P I'll go from memory and say that it was about the size of a nickel.

Thanks ya'll! Nana

 

[civilman1]

Nice Job on the fossil Nana...Just as good as bullet's.

 

[Treasure Tom]

Nice fossils Nana! It may be a seed or seed pod. Trilobites are usually found in Cambrian rock about 500 million years old so it is probably very unlikely to be one since terrestrial plants appear much later in the fossil record. Keep up the good work!

Tom

 

[hollowpointred]

thats really cool Nana! not bad for 6 minutes!

 

[The Seeker]

See that! Not only are you a coin hunter, your also now a Fossil expert........HH Coins or Fossils!

John