Re: Any one up for fossil ID?

[Silvio Renesto <renesto@mailserver.unimi.it>]

At 22.01 21/01/02 -0800, you wrote:
> Oops I forgot to tell you where the pics were...I was sent these pictures 
> from a couple of students, anyone want to speculate as to what they are? 
> go to 
> <http://prehistoricsillustrated.com/fossil.html>http://prehistoricsillustrated.com/fossil.html 
> and take a look.

Kidding: a modern scuplture. If it was bigger it could have been sold for 
millions.
Serious: probably something due to erosion. I may be wrong (after all I am 
looking only to the photos)  but don't think it is a fossil. Look at the 
"base" with inserts of different lithology.
Cheers,
.

                                        Silvio Renesto


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