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Title: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: JeanneCurt on September 29, 2012, 08:33:50 AM

Good Morning All!

My cousin who died in Korea at 20 in 1951 found this item when he was young.  It is like stone, 4" long and weighs about 5 ounces.  I am not sure if it some sort of coral or a fossil.  Thanks in advance for any information!
Jeanne

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: wendy177 on September 29, 2012, 09:30:42 AM

I have absolutely no expertise in this area but it looks like a really big tooth to me.

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: mart on September 29, 2012, 10:13:33 AM

The second pic shows a line looks like between the part that was exposed and what was covered in the jaw !! Looks like a possible tooth but if so,, would have been a filter feeder  !!  Doesn`t look similar to those that catch their own food !!  That would be my guess but I am no expert on salt water creatures !!

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: KC on September 29, 2012, 12:45:19 PM

Where did he find it?  The US? 

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: cogar on September 29, 2012, 02:15:56 PM

It might be a fossilized part of a root or tuber of a plant.

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: sapphire on September 29, 2012, 04:05:44 PM

Possibly a tusk? Would a tooth have those striations?

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: fancypants on September 29, 2012, 08:18:12 PM

I'd give the item the identity of a fossilized barnacle , one that had died under(sea)water & had other small creatures burrowing into it , post mortem .... they too met the same fate as of their former home !

Cool little item , JeanneCurt !

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: cogar on September 30, 2012, 03:48:02 AM

(http://www.geologicalwonders.com/images/products/fossils/Stigmaria-%20root-3-320-1.jpg)

Read description @ ...........

http://www.geologicalwonders.com/productinfo_v3.aspx?productid=STIGMARIA-ROOT-3 (http://www.geologicalwonders.com/productinfo_v3.aspx?productid=STIGMARIA-ROOT-3)

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: ANCIENTONE on September 30, 2012, 06:38:35 AM

Horn coral:  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/didifind.htm

Title: Re: Can Anyone Identify This Stonelike item?
Post by: fancypants on September 30, 2012, 10:05:31 AM

I'll mark myself among those who stand corrected , ANCIENTONE ... !

It does seem to be a fossilized horn coral !