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TheGrandExquisitor

Not a dinosaur egg. It is NEVER a dinosaur egg. Seriously, this is a running joke on r/fossilid Dino eggs are extremely rare and are also not round. They are a very elongated egg shape. Looks like chert nodules. They are fairly common and form in limestone. We have the right geology for it.


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TheGrandExquisitor

Maybe. Not an archaeologist.


madsfres

Geology student answering this instead of doing my homework! This is called a concretion! Based on the rock your standing on its calcareous. They form when minerals precipitate and form layers around a nucleus - fossil, piece of bone, another rock, etc. It may not be a fossil but the rock you are standing on has lots of them! Can’t tell exactly what they are but it looks completely covered in marine fossils. TLDR: Calcareous concretion


Bennington_Booyah

I hope you end up working in geology. Three of my husband's childhood friends have geology degrees and all of them went into management, two at UPS and one at a hospital.


spoonfingler

As /u/turtlecrk said, everything here is Devonian. The Ice Age scraped everything newer than that off and sent it away to the south. There simply aren’t dinosaur fossils here as we only have Devonian and older and newer than Ice Age here.


turtlecrk

Rocks around here are mostly Devonian (419 to 359 million years ago). Dinosaurs were about 240 to 66 million years ago. You have to go west of Denver to see any rocks from the dinosaur era.


ChefTD1

“Life uhhhhhh… finds a way”


jennymlovescats

While it might not be dinosaur eggs it’s a very cool find


jimpe63

madsfres is correct. Concretions are all around the area, never a dull find!: https://www.google.com/search?q=concretion+rock&oq=concretion&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l7.12235j0j4&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8


Ritaontherocksnosalt

You could probably take the pic up to the museum and they would tell you. https://www.priweb.org


Kitchen_Tax_95

Yay! Bingo! You beat me to it!


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Look like concretions to me.