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  • What is this? I believe it to be bone that I am 95% sure is fossilized.

    Found this in a central Ohio field. Pretty sure it’s a fossil. Looks like bone but heavy like stone. Any thoughts welcome!
    video, sharing, camera phone, video phone, free, upload
    Hunting in Central Ohio

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    Ohio got lotsa fine fossils, but don’t think ever found any dinosuar bones. But they’ve found lotsa fish fossils, and some from big mammals. That looks like could be somebody’s big ole vertebrae (tho gotta tell you, wanted say video “hold still”!). Maybe OldRocks, TomC, jump in…..
    Digging in GA, ‘bout a mile from the Savannah River

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      Thanks Cecilia! Adding pics now😊

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    Hunting in Central Ohio

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      C’mon Fossil Folks! Celia gotta know now! I’m gonna pull out fossil books, coz have one only bout Ohio…..
      Digging in GA, ‘bout a mile from the Savannah River

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        Thanks Celia for the support! I am super curious. I have found many plant fossils and coral but never an animal/ Dino bone.
        Hunting in Central Ohio

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          I think it's a funky piece of limerock...
          Professor Shellman
          Tampa Bay

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          • #7
            I’m with Tom looks like a chunk of limestone
            NW Georgia,

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              Bummer🙁. Thanks though. At least I know.
              Hunting in Central Ohio

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                Griff, guess I shoulda told you that once I thought found fossilized bison kneecap, then decided could be dinosaur toe bone because in its hollow was crystallized “stringy stuff”. forming kinda honeycomb. But learned from Tom and Pain, mine just a rock, an incredible squashed very flat geode. But If you do ever have fossilized bone, look for latticework of “trabecular” tissue within “cancellous interior”.

                Check out this virtual tour where viewer can go inside cancellous interior and cruise around trabecular “stringy stuff”:

                https://www.digitalatlasofancientlif...urs-and-birds/

                MAKE SURE YOU FULLY USE WHAT THIS APP CAN DO! (You can really take tour inside, like you’re a microorganism!)
                Last edited by Cecilia; 07-14-2021, 11:12 PM.
                Digging in GA, ‘bout a mile from the Savannah River

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                  Thank you!
                  Hunting in Central Ohio

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                  • #11
                    I agree with Tom as well
                    South Dakota

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                    • #12
                      Do the old tongue test, if it feels like it sticks its bone.

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