Fossilized Head.

[roughgrind]

I recently found this fossilized head. I am more a collector of arrowheads and Indian artifacts, than fossils. please help me identify this find.This last photo shows the side of the head and a glimps inside of what looks like a ribbed esaphagus.

Thanks John...

[turkeytail]

Pictures a little fuzzy John! Looks like it might be a quartzite river pebble.

[itwasluck]

No stone figurine there  B)

[Bone2stone]

It appears to be a brachiopod.
Can't be positive it's just a little fuzzy.
Then again it could be a type of blastoid or crinoid cap.
Not a fossil skull....did this reply burst any bubbles? :laugh:
    B)   Bone2stone

[painshill]

Bone2stone wrote:

It appears to be a brachiopod.
Can't be positive it's just a little fuzzy.
Then again it could be a type of blastoid or crinoid cap.
Not a fossil skull....did this reply burst any bubbles? :laugh:
    B)   Bone2stone

  Actually, I think that's a bit weird, Jessy. It's clearly not a skull, as you say, but the morphology looks wrong for most of the things I could imagine it to be. It looks like it has a dividing ridge on one side and some kind of flap-like structure on the other side that ends in something hinge-like which isn't like a conventional bivalve hinge. Have you seen anything like that before? I though it might be part of a mole-crab shell at first (but it isn't).
John: any chance of sharper pictures of the 'hinged' end and both of the larger surfaces?
Roger

[cgode]

that thing is creepy hmy: ....I have never seen anything like it before, the features on it are very symmetrical so I don't think it's a geofact.

[turkeytail]

Kinda looks like one of them stomach stones?

[cgode]

turkeytail wrote:

Kinda looks like one of them stomach stones?

  gastropod?.....or sumptin like that???.....never seen one of them in person either, we don't have a that kinda kool stuff here darn it! :angry:

[turkeytail]

Karly has a Dinosaur stomach stone some were....Ill look for it. It was bought off at Sloan Museum.

[painshill]

[QUOTE]cgode wrote:

Kinda looks like one of them stomach stones?

gastropod?.....or sumptin like that???.....never seen one of them in person either, we don't have a that kinda kool stuff here darn it! :angry:



I'm confident it's a fossil. I just don't recognise the form. If it's brachiopod it's not a species that I recognise (or a typical morphology).
Roger

[turkeytail]

Cant find it but found were my neolithic point and a few others went to!

[roughgrind]

Roger, I will get right on the task of posting clearer photos. Hope to have them uploaded soon, thanks... John.

[turkeytail]

http://www.t-rat.com/Pages/PimaFamousDino.html

[painshill]

turkeytail wrote:

http://www.t-rat.com/Pages/PimaFamousDino.html

Thanks Mark
Some info here on the forum too:

http://forums.arrowheads.com/forum/general-discussion-gc5/fossils-paleontology-old-bones-gc30/25346-not-just-a-rock

I'm sure it's not a gastrolith. It's symmetrical and looks to be hollow too.
Roger

[roughgrind]

while trying to take better photos of this fossil, I made a discovery. A chunk of dirt fell out of an indent at the base and dirt poured out. It's hollow.


Top view; and Bottom view

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/...terhead012.jpg not found



I am having trouble showing the desired detail in this photo, my camera wont show the detail I want to because, I think it is trying to read a face in the photo and ignoring the detail on either side of the fossil head. What this is, is a portion of throat, or a lining inside the monsters mouth. It has a ribbed texture like an esophagus.