This is a Flower ? or Fossil ?

[Turkia]

The Region Remains On The Hillside

 

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[Marko0916]

Or was it carved out a long time ago?

 

[Turkia]

Yes carved into the stone closed I get sound when you hit the space rock hammer Is there anything in?

 

[d2]

Looks kind of like a petrified sand dollar...d2

 

[Turkia]

I think as you think you add to the number under the rock I get sound when you hit with a hammer, knock the rock

 

[huntsman53]

Looks like a fossilized Starfish to me! It is not carved because it is of a different material (composition) than the rock that it is embedded in.


Frank

 

[olroy70]

It is a fossilized starfish! just a little different kind. will get some pics of the ones I have found

 

[Turkia]

Inside the empty rock How would you like to photos ? In closing if added to the

 

[Hdubya]

It looks like a sand dollar to me. How weird!
File:Keyhole sand dollar 01.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Indian Steve]

Sand Dollar fossil.

 

[huntsman53]

Sand Dollar fossil.

After going back and looking over the pics again, I retract my statement that it is a Starfish Fossil! Since there is a roundish outline around the white inner star like fossilization, then this must have been the outer protective hard body portion of the Sand Dollar for protection.


Frank

 

[Got_4by4]

Looks kind of like a petrified sand dollar...d2

Definitely a fossilized sand dollar!
THAT tells you that the area was once an qcean bed or at least a shoreline!
Can you provide some OLD maps of that might show a body of water or beach?

 

[Breezie]

It looks like a Sea Biscuit shell to me. Interesting, Breezie

 

[Turkia]

worthless thing? Is not nothin 'in the rock ?

 

[yaxthri]

Not really worthless... Someone might "treasure" it... but not a "treasure" for you...

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

A fossilized sand dollar that size - if collected intact with some of the surrounding matrix - might sell for $60.

Better to take a picture and leave it for all to enjoy. Especially in a rock that size.

Google: echinoids

 

[GaRebel1861]

A fossilized sand dollar that size - if collected intact with some of the surrounding matrix - might sell for $60.

Better to take a picture and leave it for all to enjoy. Especially in a rock that size.

Google: echinoids

That what I was thinking too.

 

[rock]

Just goes to show you how high the water was at one time in that spot. Saltwater at that.