Anybody have any clues?
First guess- a trilobite molt. That is, the preserved shed exoskeleton of a trilobite.
Super cool- I’ll do some research.
I would guess it’s an endocast of an crayfish curled into a defensive ball. Basically what you are seeing is what the thing looked like without its shell.
A couple of decent photos would be more useful than a low res video with the thing covered in shadows where the holder never stops moving the bloody thing.
I’ll post some photos. I figured not being able to see it turning in 3-D would make it harder to ID. My bad.
I reckon that’s a relative of that S. Palin woman.
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Son of a b!tch. The universe is not on my side in this. Back in a bit with a different attempt.
Okay. That makes it likely to be an artifact or remnant of an Elder Thing, and so the Great Old Ones are altering probability to keep it from being recognized and invoked.
The first image resembles the underside of a crab - there seems to be a sort of tucked-under tail.
The third image resembles the top carapace of a crab.
The weird split structure may actually be an imprint of a burrow or depression that (if it’s a crab) it excavated to accommodate its legs (if that’s the case, the legs may still be very well preserved inside those paired structures, but I don’t recommend damaging it to find out)
That is a weird one. Why don’t you post the picture on a fossil identification site like fossilweb.com so that a load of fossil geeks can have a look at it?
I clicked on a few pictures on their specimen list but none of them seemed to fit apart from the Coilopoceras which is at least spherical.
If that doesn’t work you could try showing it to a natural history museum (or emailing the pictures to them if you don’t live near one).
I’d be interested to know what it is.
Just posted to FossilWeb- thanks! I also have a friend going to an upcoming Fossil/Rock/Mineral show and he might take it with him.
There wasn’t an ancient crashed spaceship near where you found it was there?
There was just a tornado there! (Dexter, Michigan) :eek:
