@Steve Culbreth,
Your questions arent "tough" really. You make the mistake of misidentifying something based on your imagination rather than evidence
Quote: Do you know what a pseudo-morph is?
More than you have time to listen.
A pseudomorph (its one word btw), is something that "takes the habit of a pevious item". It always involvs the chemical alteration of one thing into another. The most common pseudomrph is pyrite. Pyrite will oxidize into a non sulfide mineral called LIMONITE, but will retain the pyrite crystal form. SO a limonite "after pyrite" pseudomorph is when the pyrite crystal degrades into an iron oxyhydroxide but the new mineral "LOOKS JUST LIKE" a brown pyrite crystal.
If you are using the psudomorph analogy, then your minerals (l3ets say serpentinite), Is actually a mineral that has taken ON THE FORM OF A FOSSIL. Therefore , with this analogy Youve just screwed any semblance of an argument. The igneous mineral came first and where is the fossil form? (It was carved by water)
You have got physical artifacts that your imagination compels you to see something there that just isnt.
As far as the teeth marks on rock, you can see the veination of the very minerals in the rock. These minerals (no doubt something tectonically emplaced like calcite) are less resistant to erosion than the host rock (which has only been rounded in a stream). SO the calcite is easily "plucked out" by water and moisture until all that is l3eft is the "mold" of where the calcite vein used to be. These are really common stream formed articats (we even have a language of what we call this stuff but I wont bore you with jargon)
SERPENTINE IS ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH SEA FLOOR TECTONICS.
SO, in order for your serpentine to even be considered to be a "fossil", youve gotta find the vertebrate animal that can live in supercritical hot water and melted silicate rocks.
Besides Pompeii and Herculaneum "casts" of dead people, the only igneous fossil that I know of is some poor wooly rhino that got caught in a lava flow of the Sierra ignimbrites and a "cast was made" of this dude. There is a fossil rhino cast in ignimbritic ash that was made during an eruption o LAssen peak during the Pleistocene.
There is no"internal structure preserved save a hint of skeleton u8nder MRI (Theyve scanned the sucker)
I forget which museum hes in bgut he is available for inspection
As far as your "coprolites" agin, Id carefully inspect them under a pet scope in thin section. I think your dealing with nepheline syentites, trachytres , or a porphyry. These igneous rocks pcontain "phenocrysts" and "chunks" of the country rock through which theyve boiled up . They just tear the **** out of the rocks already there and make an igneous "portland cement" . You can often see, in Nepheline syenites, the rocks from hundreds of kilometers deep that have been "Included" into the syenite mineral at the surface.
What does "forensic odontology" have to do with anything" You are not one, I am not one, I do have a friend who IS ONE and he is frequently called to analyze dentition of pre-humans and victims of war. So far he hasnt called me to identify some mineralized pseudo fossil
You need to establish that what youve got is undeniably remnants of organic life. By merely insulting me as a geologist doesnt enhance anything youve said because You are playing in my court with your igneous specimens with common surficial artifacts and ventifacts.
I submit that, were you to wish to present your specimens in a real technical juried publication, youd be bombarded with really
detailed concerns. After a bit though, scientists would lose interest if you fail to show any progress in your analyses.
Id get a book on sedimentology , structural geology (specifically one that deals with emplacement of associate minerals)
THEN, to really bore the **** out of yourself, go find the multi volume reference called the "Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology" It shows examples and keys to all sorts of fossil types. Compare your "coprolites" and "eyeballs" with casts and molds of any available soft tissue (theres really not a lot out there.)
I was on an extended field exercise since Tues PM and arrived home late last night. This morning I awoke and visited A2K and saw your most recent contributions. While Im pleased to see a "geology related thread", I cant agree with anything youve presented because youve failed to establish the connection between what your original rock sources have been and then asked the magical question"How could this kind of rock make a fossil?"
You need to look at the bulk mineralogy of the rock you have and carefully try to reconstruct their genesis AND, like the serpentinite,
"Have I totally missed the genesis exclusionary item here ?" How can a deep ocean ophiolite dunite or peridotite contain a dinosaur ??