Re: Fossil Identification?


"Jo Schaper" <jonot34schaperat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Feles wrote:
You don't mention anything about the area where you found it

I found it in a shallow ravine in some woods on coastal salt dome in
Iberia Parish, Louisiana.

See if it bubbles in response to vinegar placed in the center
and away from it.

I put some vinegar on it, and several bubbles, each about the size of
the head of pin, formed within 30 seconds.

I guess it's not a fossil, then.

Thanks for your help!

Feles

What? A fossil can be of calcium carbonate, or quartz, or pyrite, or
graphite, shale, coal, sandstone, heck, even unaltered bone or shell, ad
probably lots of things I haven't named.

I'm not sure what composition has to do with this fellow's putative
fossil.

JS:

My primary diagnostic interest at this remove was in whether on a broken
surface where
mineralization had not the opportunity to infiltrate there was evidence of
any porous cell
structure. If not, the vinegar test was to see if this was a likely small
concretion.

Regards,

Edward Hennessey


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