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Nohope Oct 27, 2008 10:11 AM

If this is a snake and you can ID it, you achieve instant Legend status.

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LarryF Oct 27, 2008 10:19 AM

Transportus bicilus?
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LarryF Oct 27, 2008 10:22 AM

Transportus biciclus?

(Please excuse my fat fingers.)
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crimsonking Oct 27, 2008 12:32 PM

ssp.schwinni?
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LarryF Oct 27, 2008 01:50 PM

Hard to tell. Honestly, I'm not even 100% sure of the genus, but it's almost certainly in the Machinadae family.
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joecop Oct 27, 2008 01:00 PM

HA HA HA HA. I agree. Maybe Canondalis or trekopolis.

Nohope Oct 27, 2008 02:06 PM

Well, I wanted to have some fun with it but you posters have gone in a totally unexpected direction. Thats actually a limestone rock with some type fossilized impression showing. I've always heard it referred to as the "snake rock" but I suspect its some type fossilized tree or plant impression. Definitely not prehistoric bicycle tracks. At least, I don't think so....

Trolligans Oct 27, 2008 03:01 PM

the bicycle was invented in the late Triassic Period but wouldn't become popular for about another 10 million years. Your find could indeed be the tracks of Transportus Schwinagaster.
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LarryF Oct 27, 2008 05:28 PM

Ah, I was assuming it was some sort of clay (it doesn't look like limestone).

I considered some sort of fern or palm, but I thought it almost looked too regular for that.

Certainly not reptile or fish. The "scales" don't appear to overlap.
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cochran Oct 27, 2008 04:23 PM

I used to see those in W.V. as a kid and thought they were snakes but,I think it's some type or trunk from a tree fern of some sort.The ones I used to see were in shale or slate. Jeff

Nohope Oct 27, 2008 07:05 PM

Limestone was probably the wrong word to use. People refer to limestone bluffs in the area, thats why I used the word. I don't actually know what type rock it is. Fern is what I was told it probably was.

BrianDorry55 Nov 03, 2008 12:28 AM

It really does look like some kind of snake with keeled scales.

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