elemental of all Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Long story short, I received a gift and its up to me to find out what it is. It feels like rock but sounds like glass. Its somewhat translucent, and has an odd webbing pattern on the inside, as well as potential air bubbles (could just be diffirent colors) The outter part has an odd leather look to it. Its quite heavy for its size. I'll upload as many pictures as I can to get this indentified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elemental of all Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 Here's a light shining through, you can sort of make out the webbing inside. As well as the "air pocket" There's also a solid black area that no light shines through. And it feels a little different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_day Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Looks like dino bone. that is to say it looks like a dinosaur bone fossil that has been cut and polished. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 That's what I think it is also but not 100% sure. I've never known fossilized dino bone to be translucent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Unless its some kind of fossilized palm , then I would have to agree that it may be fossilized bone cut into a slab then polished. The " translucent" areas may be replaced with silica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 I think perhaps Adam nailed it on the translucent parts.... Sure looks like Dino Bone, but I have never seen a specimen like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elemental of all Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 Agatized dinosaur bone with silica? Wow guys, awesome. Did some googling and its pretty close. Though I don't know exactly if its bone, wood, coprolite or something else. But that solid non translucence part must be the bone then huh? Its about 40% of the piece. The rest is I guess silica? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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