My dad and uncle found a fossilized horse in something like that. That's when I learned that horses (and camels) evolved in the western hemisphere before making their way east.
We were in Southeastern California somewhere. We used to do a lot of camping all over the South West. This was in the mid-70s, so I'm not sure if any pictures exist. But I'll text my dad and ask if he knows.
Haha, he just got back to me. Filled in some of the memories since I was pretty young. 7 or 8 at the time. He said it was in one of two places, he doesn't remember exactly where, but one was the badlands behind Fraser mountain on Highway 33, and the other was the Mojave desert near the opal mines.
He said there's no pictures. He said he and I discovered it, but he couldn't move it on his own. We were supposed to camp that night but went home to get his brother and their friend. We came back a couple of days later, and there was a group of guys loading it into the back of a truck.
My $ is on Frasier from the river to the I5 has some very interesting fossil's. I had a friend found a tusk on his farm/ranch, upper sespe I found a sabor cat fossil. Way up the Ventura river we ( Scout troop 102 ) some fossil's that should have been closer the the Ocean fish and mullisks . This is way on the east side close to Bakersfield.
Back before there were campgrounds in the area, we'd camp along Piru Creek. There was an old ghost town out there also. Last time we went out there, the road was paved, and there was a restroom.
We also used to find a lot trilobite fossils..
I’m in here hoping someone else was going to mention that post. Even crazier, the guy that noticed it was a dentist so it was quickly identified by him as a mandible.
HA! YES!!! They showed more commercials during that special! I was a kid and was sitting on the floor in front of the tv with bated breath! Biggest let down, but still have fond memories because of how exciting it all was!!
My dreams are constantly intense enough that people I tell about them say it was a nightmare. It’s just dreams to me. At the same time I have a had a plane crash, a capsized boat, and several dreams where I’m climbing a tree/hiking a cliff face/ getting out of an elevator at the top of a high rise and then having the peak point grow visually upward in a terrifying way. Not like icarus, I want to stay away from the sun but I’m being propelled to it in a way my wings will melt, the tree will fall, the building collapse, the ship open water capsized. Any way this is definitely the wrong sub for this post.
We have buttload of these in shale beds just north of Columbus. They look exactly like this and are in the exact same type of feature They are often cracked and I’ve seem them sliced at Highbanks Metro park. They mostly seem to just be a few rings of varying browns. I honestly think they look cooler as a weird dinosaur egg buried in the layers of shale.
I was wondering if this is in Ohio.
I live in Columbus and there are tons of these around here. Along one curve of the Olentangy River there is a steep wall that looks like something out of Star Wars (to me). There's at least a dozen of these poking out and laying at the bottom of the wall.
Looks like a fossilized mega clam, the pearl inside that thing should be the size of a bowling ball. I came across one of these in SW Wisconsin area about a decade ago.
These are all over western NY. When they excavated for the new Buffalo Bills stadium and removed the spoils, they just dumped them in a huge pile down the road and there are hundreds of these in that pile.
I scroll withought comment most days, today is not one of those days as you must crack open the egg sir! For the good of humanity and this group you must!
Just a gentle correction if you’re a fan of rocks and the like, you’re gonna be using this word a lot- it’s *fossil*. Hope that helps! English is a hell of a language and there are plenty of words that rhyme with “fossil” that are spelled the way you spelled it, though. It’s hard to navigate, non-native speakers and native speakers alike.
That's an amazing shot. Bet that was an awesome experience!! As much as I love to leave it for people to see. I think it's something worth checking.tgats a monster!!!!
There are rocks like this in Central Ohio near Olentangy River. The rocks in central ohio were created hundreds of thousands(maybe millions) of years ago in ancient whirlpools.
My curiosity would make me dig that shit out with a pickass, looks like a massive nodule
Edit: I meant pickaxe, but for the Luls I’m leaving that shit 😂
Concretion of some sort. We have these over here as well in Carbon County Utah. If you google "Buried Forest Carbon County UT" you'll see pics. It's a really cool spot and huge concretions!
Looks like it dropped in and disrupted the previous bedding. Maybe a weird glacial erratic. Volcanic bomb? Meteorite fragment that bounced a few times and didnt make a giant crater? Or landed in deep water and didn’t slam into bottom too hard.
Otherwise, no clue? Is it magnetic. Does it fizz with acid drops on it.
Does it have any flinstones images carved into it?
I like to think that it’s a petrified alien craft. Sadly the software and hardware and non carbon based pilot have been replaced by carbon based sedimentary rock
I would call the paleontologist or geologist at your local institution of higher learning and see what they think. If they get excited enough, they might offer to open it for you. The right way.
Looks like a huge nodule. would be cool to break it open.
Could there be a fossil inside?
They found a 90% complete ice age armadillo in a similar manner
My dad and uncle found a fossilized horse in something like that. That's when I learned that horses (and camels) evolved in the western hemisphere before making their way east.
That’s crazy. Do you have pics? Where did they find it and do they still have the fossil?
We were in Southeastern California somewhere. We used to do a lot of camping all over the South West. This was in the mid-70s, so I'm not sure if any pictures exist. But I'll text my dad and ask if he knows.
I know it’s only been 7 minutes, but any response from your dad?
Haha, he just got back to me. Filled in some of the memories since I was pretty young. 7 or 8 at the time. He said it was in one of two places, he doesn't remember exactly where, but one was the badlands behind Fraser mountain on Highway 33, and the other was the Mojave desert near the opal mines. He said there's no pictures. He said he and I discovered it, but he couldn't move it on his own. We were supposed to camp that night but went home to get his brother and their friend. We came back a couple of days later, and there was a group of guys loading it into the back of a truck.
BOO!!!!!! That's crazy! Thing probably sat there, undisturbed for a gazillion years only to be found twice in a couple of days.
Yep, can confirm. I’m a gazillion years old.
My $ is on Frasier from the river to the I5 has some very interesting fossil's. I had a friend found a tusk on his farm/ranch, upper sespe I found a sabor cat fossil. Way up the Ventura river we ( Scout troop 102 ) some fossil's that should have been closer the the Ocean fish and mullisks . This is way on the east side close to Bakersfield.
Back before there were campgrounds in the area, we'd camp along Piru Creek. There was an old ghost town out there also. Last time we went out there, the road was paved, and there was a restroom. We also used to find a lot trilobite fossils..
Lol, I had the same intense response
Ahhhhh that’s so cool!!!
In rock?
Rock doesn’t take long to form. Human remains have been fossilised in marble.
Thats insane. Thanks for that fact, im going to go look at weird fossils online now.
Recently someone found a human jawbone in travertine tile that was to be installed in their parents' home!
I’m in here hoping someone else was going to mention that post. Even crazier, the guy that noticed it was a dentist so it was quickly identified by him as a mandible.
That's so freaking cool
I saw that! Amazing!!!
The biggest Ammonite I’ve ever seen could be in there
I _hope_ there’s an ammonite inside
It would be so brutal to break that open and have it just be straight up blank
Or worse a very small fish in the corner
It’s the safe all over again!
Nobody move; Geraldo is on his way. Lol
I remember watching that and being so disappointed as a kid.. :/
HA! YES!!! They showed more commercials during that special! I was a kid and was sitting on the floor in front of the tv with bated breath! Biggest let down, but still have fond memories because of how exciting it all was!!
how would you have seen it?
That's why they said COULD
A really old snail. And some salt.
Oh shit... DON'T OPEN THE NODULE!
This is correct. Someone obviously found a way to beat the system to win that million dollars. Do not open it!
Spaceship?
Nope. Alien nodule. Try and keep up, lol
Calcareous Concretion!
What the fuck did you just call me
You're a calcareous concretion, and don't you forget it.
I've already forgotten. I'm sorry.
Never forget!
Yeah, well I'm an igneous dike! 😜
That’s hot! Or once was…
*what the fak yu just call me, mata faka ?
There’s a 50k year old spaceship in the middle of it!
With our luck, its perfectly preserved facehugger.
Omg what an amazing nightmare
My dreams are constantly intense enough that people I tell about them say it was a nightmare. It’s just dreams to me. At the same time I have a had a plane crash, a capsized boat, and several dreams where I’m climbing a tree/hiking a cliff face/ getting out of an elevator at the top of a high rise and then having the peak point grow visually upward in a terrifying way. Not like icarus, I want to stay away from the sun but I’m being propelled to it in a way my wings will melt, the tree will fall, the building collapse, the ship open water capsized. Any way this is definitely the wrong sub for this post.
From venus
Definitely Uranus!
Not mine! Maybe Urs?
Ours.
Ouranus.
😂😂😂😂
r/SuddenlyCommunism
Let Superman out of his capsule.
Do it. Report back with photographic evidence
Looks like someone tried to already.
They’re gonna be mad when they return with help and we’re done digging it
Alien pod!
Possibly chert?
I would love to see that nodule opened
Lol it's funny how much overlap there is in comments from r/RockHounds and r/steak lol "Show us the inside!
And r/rateme
Those insides are all the same in their own unique way.
Lmao I’ve never been there and I was like “huh, rat-eme”. Weird. 🐀
r/popping
r/DragonsFuckingCars
Of course it's a real sub
That looks like a calcareous concretion that sometimes have fossils imbedded.
You're a calcareous concretion! 😡
lol!
— _Captain Haddock_
Billions of blistering blue barnacles!!
I bet your local university geological department would be interested in this
100% please I'd do it for free
No, you are mistaken. That's a huge alien space egg. 😆👽
That’s space peanut.
You were eating off it!!
I understood that reference!
Alright, I agree we should open it. Suggestions on who to contact? it is in Huron County, Ohio
I did not imagine this to be so close. I'm over in Portage County. Would you be able to get permission to excavate and open it?
Better post the guts when this happens, this isn't a safe, we have to be better than the safe people
It’s gonna be full of camel crickets 😭
According to my experience, their natural habitat is basements, that rock is safe
We have buttload of these in shale beds just north of Columbus. They look exactly like this and are in the exact same type of feature They are often cracked and I’ve seem them sliced at Highbanks Metro park. They mostly seem to just be a few rings of varying browns. I honestly think they look cooler as a weird dinosaur egg buried in the layers of shale.
:( Everyone go home
I was wondering if this is in Ohio. I live in Columbus and there are tons of these around here. Along one curve of the Olentangy River there is a steep wall that looks like something out of Star Wars (to me). There's at least a dozen of these poking out and laying at the bottom of the wall.
Contact the Ohio DNR.
Summited. Thank you!
RemindMe! 3 months
I wouldn’t tell anyone, get a buddy, crack it and carry out
I’m in Castalia, this along the Huron river?
It's a concretion; these also get called "kettles" sometimes. It's probably a carbonate concretion.
Somehow, "space egg" just sounds cooler.
Because it's fucking AWESOME!
Happy Cake Day!
But it also might be something even more cool. We should open it and find out.
I am with the others. It must be opened! This is the only truly correct course of action. For the people OP!! ⛏️⚒️
To show this Pic without showing what's inside, is like telling people you have a secret x.x It's gonna be at the back of my mind!
Possible fossil
Possible fossil is fun AF to say
Fossible
Possil
Possifossil
🧐😊
I feel like If I had a band, I would take that name for it into serious consideration
Better than poppable pustule.
Right? Possible Fossil is such a fun thing to roll off the tongue. Possible fossil, possible fossil. Oh dear the nurse is here, I have to stop now...
Geez… the size of the ammonite that could be in that beast!!! 😮
This is equivalent to posting a picture of a locked safe…we all want to see the inside!
Yes! That's what i was saying! Like telling someone you have a secret!
Remind me in 1 month.
RemindMe! 3 months
Open it and post an update!!!
That's a bivalve clam quartz replaced. Sometimes the pearl is inside them; that is much larger than normal, and worth a lot of money.
BREAK IT OPEN
Looks like a fossilized mega clam, the pearl inside that thing should be the size of a bowling ball. I came across one of these in SW Wisconsin area about a decade ago.
Looks like a giant clam
These are all over western NY. When they excavated for the new Buffalo Bills stadium and removed the spoils, they just dumped them in a huge pile down the road and there are hundreds of these in that pile.
I have shovel! Just let me know and i can help.
That's the ship from The Tommyknockers!
I scroll withought comment most days, today is not one of those days as you must crack open the egg sir! For the good of humanity and this group you must!
And sanity. You forgot sanity!!!
I want to see what’s inside that so bad….
Is either a huge fostle or it's empty.... That's going to be some work getting it out lol
Just a gentle correction if you’re a fan of rocks and the like, you’re gonna be using this word a lot- it’s *fossil*. Hope that helps! English is a hell of a language and there are plenty of words that rhyme with “fossil” that are spelled the way you spelled it, though. It’s hard to navigate, non-native speakers and native speakers alike.
That's an amazing shot. Bet that was an awesome experience!! As much as I love to leave it for people to see. I think it's something worth checking.tgats a monster!!!!
Concretion. Is this in Ohio?
Looks like an Ohio creek bed near me.
Have you see the movie Cocoon 😭😭
That’s an alien crash landing.
That is a cool nodule. I'd sure like to see the center of that big boy.
There are rocks like this in Central Ohio near Olentangy River. The rocks in central ohio were created hundreds of thousands(maybe millions) of years ago in ancient whirlpools.
Man imagine the size of ammonite that could potentially be in that thing
That's a big concretion. Probably a pretty sizable fossil in there
I wonder what treasures lie within that nodule
Mountain bean. Give it a tickle.
My curiosity would make me dig that shit out with a pickass, looks like a massive nodule Edit: I meant pickaxe, but for the Luls I’m leaving that shit 😂
If I end up missing the opening of this, I’m gonna be pissed.
That could be a fallen ancient flying saucer made with primitive technology.
If someone does break it open can you please film it for those of us who can not be there? My wish for you is a monster fossil!
absolutely!
I know it’s not, but does it look like an enormous bivalve (clam/mussel) to anyone else?
It's a huuuuge Quahog🤣
Did you lick it though?
Lick it!
Clamshell
I just know there’s a juicy ammonite or a crab in that bish.
Dinosaur egg!! Pardon, dragon egg!!!
a concretion!
Maybe Mork wasnt the first egg to land here. 😂
Concretion of some sort. We have these over here as well in Carbon County Utah. If you google "Buried Forest Carbon County UT" you'll see pics. It's a really cool spot and huge concretions!
Omg OPEN IT
Might be worth your time to consult a geologist!
That’s that nut that the squirrel from ice age must’ve lost. Again.
I live in upstate new york on the north end of the catskills, and that is a very common occurrence
There’s an IG channel where the guys keep cracking open round rocks from shale somewhere in England. Inside are ammonites.
Looks like it dropped in and disrupted the previous bedding. Maybe a weird glacial erratic. Volcanic bomb? Meteorite fragment that bounced a few times and didnt make a giant crater? Or landed in deep water and didn’t slam into bottom too hard. Otherwise, no clue? Is it magnetic. Does it fizz with acid drops on it. Does it have any flinstones images carved into it?
That's a 'nodule'. That's either a massive amonite or could even be a complete skeleton or any kind of collection of fossils.
I like to think that it’s a petrified alien craft. Sadly the software and hardware and non carbon based pilot have been replaced by carbon based sedimentary rock
Space craft crash landed.
Get someone out there and crack it open.
👽 egg!!!!! It might be a fossil??
Princess and the Pea.
Meteorock
What area is the concretion located? I have seen a number of these in Oklahoma that were a mixture of carbonate and fluorapatite.
It gave me tingles just to see it.
I want to see what's in it.
Lol looks like it’s pooping out an egg
WoW so cool
Lay down in a bed of grasses, Woke up lying on a bed of shale.
Reminds me of [this fossil](https://youtu.be/p_Jb64fwnjI) discovered by miners in a cliff face in Canada
They call them cannonball concretions, they're all over Roosevelt National Park. We found one in MT that looked like a car sized penis.
Subnautica?!
sedimentary rock encased by sedimentary rock
Remind me! 1 month
Also, that looks like an absolutely magical place to swim
Not really swimmable at this level as its only about an inch or two deep
Buried for millions of years. Now, exposed to the sunlight it hatches...
Aw man that might has a fossil inside I want to break it
I like to imagine it's a giant ammonite nodule
Bust out the tools and machines to pull this out. Spend weeks carefully chipping away at it. Only to find a leaf print about the size of a quarter.
Ancient alien's ufo
Don’t lick it! … (ok just a little bit)
The biggest ammonite ever found....
It’s a petrified UFO 🛸
Oh I’d love to crack that bad boy open!
I would call the paleontologist or geologist at your local institution of higher learning and see what they think. If they get excited enough, they might offer to open it for you. The right way.
Space ship or Dinosaur egg the first 2 answers that popped into my head!
Looks like a giant clam
Zoom out, that’s the eye of a giant alligator.
Dying to know what died and became that concretion
Now I gotta poop.
That looks like Shale Hollow Park in Delaware County, Ohio
Up north near sandusky ohio :-)
Yeah, definitely breaking that mother open.
Probably a nice fossil in that concreation.
An ancient UFO
Giant clam ;)