Fossil.

[Brandy]

So, I have this "rock" in my pasture, among other weird rocks that looks a good bit like Godzilla. We have been calling it the "Godzilla Rock" for years. I got to looking at it this morning and It occurs to me that the likelihood of any random rock looking THIS MUCH like a prehistoric animal is very slim. So, on that note I took a load of pictures of it from all angles and did some research.
Strange but true, I think it is a fossil. It really resembles these two monsters...

My rock has the same triangle section behind the jaw, the carapace up and over the back, the wide and deep mouth, the side and rear fins...etc. compare the pictures and give me your opinion..

 

[68Moparmaniac]

I want some of what your having...

 

[Brandy]

I want some of what your having...

thanks....that's helpful.

 

[greycharger]

You can send your photos to these guys if you are on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/SDSMTGeologyGeologicalEngineering

 

[moparedtn]

Good Lord, were those critters THAT dang big when they lived?

 

[Brandy]

Good Lord, were those critters THAT dang big when they lived?

10 meters. One meter is about three feet. This rock is missing the rear portion after the rear fins...or that portion is what's laying below, the other hunk of rock..

 

[moparedtn]

10 meters. One meter is about three feet. This rock is missing the rear portion after the rear fins...or that portion is what's laying below, the other hunk of rock..

I'm thinking nobody had a frying pan that big!

 

[conv67bdere]

That's pretty cool, but if it "is" a real fossil, you'll lose your cool rock forever . . .

 

[Brandy]

You can send your photos to these guys if you are on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/SDSMTGeologyGeologicalEngineering

I sent it.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I sent it.

Let us know when you're on the news.

 

[Brandy]

Well, it's mine right now and if anyone wants it they will have to buy it. lol. If it is a Dank Fish from the way back, it's millions of years old. This whole Champlain Valley was a shallow sea in the Cretaceous Period. There is a bunch of rocks around here with the surfaces looking just like boiling water frozen in time. There's a big slab of it right next to this rock. I'm told that when the molten rock was pushed up through the shallow sea it cooled just below the surface of the water and the water being superheated from the molten rock, bubbled. As the rock solidified it took on the bubbling shapes. All over the place up here..

 

[68Moparmaniac]

thanks....that's helpful.

No problem bro

 

[Brandy]

Let us know when you're on the news.

I will, lol. It's probably nothing but a close up comparison with the pics blown up shows a bunch of comparison points matching up. Very weird. This is the only species I could find with both fins and a hard carapace around the neck and the triangle slab at the rear of the mouth line. The bottom of this thing looks just like a turtles bottom side. Centerline depression and smooth contoured plates down both sides. It has a big ole fin on it's right side down in the grass.., exactly where the it is in the drawing...
Funny thing, there's an archeology crew about a half mile down my dirt road, right this minute, digging for Indian fossils next to Otter Creek. They are going to stop up at the end of their day and have a look at it..

 

[Brandy]

I mean, if this thing is legit it WOULD be worn down a bunch after millions of years.

Dunkleosteus. Dunkleosteus was a large Placoderm (arthropod fish) that lived in the late Devonian period, about 380–360 million years ago. It grew to 10 metres (33 feet), and was the top predator of its time and one of the top predators of the Paleozoic era.

And after 380 million years there would BE only solid rock left, I would think..

 

[Brandy]

 

[RedBeard]

At best it is a pseudo-fossil. Something that appears to be a "petrified" animal. You just got an interesting rock outcrop.

 

[FJ6AAR]

Looks like it saying ,FEED ME , FEED ME!

 

[Darius]

It is a VERY awesome rock no matter what!

 

[Budnicks]

cool rock formation, in an case

 

[slimt]

So, I have this "rock" in my pasture, among other weird rocks that looks a good bit like Godzilla. We have been calling it the "Godzilla Rock" for years. I got to looking at it this morning and It occurs to me that the likelihood of any random rock looking THIS MUCH like a prehistoric animal is very slim. So, on that note I took a load of pictures of it from all angles and did some research.
Strange but true, I think it is a fossil. It really resembles these two monsters...
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My rock has the same triangle section behind the jaw, the carapace up and over the back, the wide and deep mouth, the side and rear fins...etc. compare the pictures and give me your opinion..
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Are you close to Oak Island? Could be a clue.