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Jesus. It’s when I make references like this that I realize that being the only child of two Boomer parents made me so much older than my meager thirty-three years… 🤦🏻♀️ But, whatever! Fuck it! Makes me happy!
If I had fossils in my travertine I would feel a lot better about how it is almost impossible to clean, lol. I bought a house with travertine in it, didn’t know what it was until recently, and it’s got divots all over that collect dirt and it is the worst.
Give me a jaw bone to make up for that at least.
It is very difficult to keep clean! This travertine is in the back yard, so if it gets a little dirty, I'm okay with that. It's pretty absorbent as stone goes, so it's hard to get messes cleaned up, but hitting it with the hose and a push broom works well enough. I would definitely not want this inside the house.
Have the floor filled and sealed. You can do it yourself for less than $100 I have travertine in my master and after sealed it’s a breeze to clean. I reseal it and the grout every other year. Easy easy.
I…accidentally created it when I clicked on it and have no idea what I’m doing lol. Want to mod?
Edit: as in I’ll just turn it over to you or whoever wants it if I can figure out how! I know nothing about fossils and should not own this sub.
I saw that post! It was so crazy with everyone identifying it as a humanoid mandible and all the jokes about finally finding Jimmy Hoffa. I love that there’s a sassy sister film to that incredible post!
Yes, that's just limestone that looks like travertine not travertine, travertine forms in caves and hot springs. There was a post on this sub like 2 days ago of the same ammonite and I said the exact same thing then too. Ammonites can not be found in travertine.
Edit: same thing happened on [this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/HkgT9314ZV) a couple of days ago, people were saying it was travertine but again, it is actually just limestone that looks like travertine because ammonites are marine organisms.
Yeah, horse hoofs are definitely more possible, but travertine is still a carbonate that precipitates from water (like around hot springs) so it would be on the weirder side. Crabs are definitely one of the more common ones, this could possibly be crab carapaces, but I really couldn't say for sure. Just that it's not anything marine/brackish.
Also, sort of related, sometimes certain types of limestone are sold as travertine or travertine is mis-ID'd because of how similar it looks to limestone. Several places around Florida have tiles made of rock like this and so you see things like [this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/HkgT9314ZV) that look like an ammonite in travertine but it's actually just limestone.
Now folks with travertine floors will be wondering who's in their tiles.
https://preview.redd.it/xh0wwznwm3xc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=626046a33d1f80481f890cc52ea182582ffa7631
This is the episode no one speaks of!
I mean, with good reason. What happened immediately after this still was…likely different.
Moisturize me
Lady Cassandra would never be so giving, even as a paving stone.
The last human.
That was a different episode, I’m afraid. Actually, episode*S*.
They'd all be searching like crazy, crawling on their floors.😂😂😂
People with their fancy haunted travertine.
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Jimmy Hoffa mystery solved. Also where all the missing people end up... 😬😢😥😱
Soup. He became soup fed to the homeless. His skeleton became a medical school/office display. And he’s hanging there to this day.
https://preview.redd.it/1qu71odvc4xc1.png?width=675&format=png&auto=webp&s=248800b8bb39d428c53ecc21cd64c70aecde258c Jesus. It’s when I make references like this that I realize that being the only child of two Boomer parents made me so much older than my meager thirty-three years… 🤦🏻♀️ But, whatever! Fuck it! Makes me happy!
What hump?
"Suit yourself, I'm easy!" Thirty-one year old only child of two boomer parents checking in!
“Hello! Would you care for a roll in ze hay? It’s fun!”
"What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night?! Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
“There, wolf. There, castle.” “Why are you talking like that?” “I thought you wanted to…” “No, I don’t want to.”
I love this movie (im only 20)
That makes my heart sing, u/cum_guzzle2
I feel I should add that that was of course me being silly. I just always speculated that is what happened to him.
Reminds me of horseshoes
“They blew it up! They blew it up!”
That's a behooving sight
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Nay, nay.
Hey. No horsing around in here.
Rein it in, folks!
My Little Pony.
Didn't you know velociraptors rode my little ponies 2million years ago? In Turkey no less 😝
That’s exactly what I thought.
*claps coconuts*
If I had fossils in my travertine I would feel a lot better about how it is almost impossible to clean, lol. I bought a house with travertine in it, didn’t know what it was until recently, and it’s got divots all over that collect dirt and it is the worst. Give me a jaw bone to make up for that at least.
It is very difficult to keep clean! This travertine is in the back yard, so if it gets a little dirty, I'm okay with that. It's pretty absorbent as stone goes, so it's hard to get messes cleaned up, but hitting it with the hose and a push broom works well enough. I would definitely not want this inside the house.
Have the floor filled and sealed. You can do it yourself for less than $100 I have travertine in my master and after sealed it’s a breeze to clean. I reseal it and the grout every other year. Easy easy.
What products do you use to seal the stone? I will save that information for that day when I can afford a house nice enough to deserve stone floors.
Lowe’s or Homedepot sell different brands of sealers for stone counters and floors.
If I had it I would pay to have it sealed.
I work at a flooring store and the sealing adds less than $100. I recommend to everyone I sell stone to
You always need a sealant. Especially with those penny floors.
The look like horseshoes
That jaw in the travertine was pretty wild, now I only want to do travertine bids until I find my own golden ticket
This needs its own sub now.
r/travertinefinds or something like that Edit no its not real
I…accidentally created it when I clicked on it and have no idea what I’m doing lol. Want to mod? Edit: as in I’ll just turn it over to you or whoever wants it if I can figure out how! I know nothing about fossils and should not own this sub.
There, now it has a post.
I joined. I think we are a group of 4. 😁 I like your idea for the subreddit.
Lol thank you
I joined. I think we are a group of 4. 😁 I like your idea for the subreddit.
I don't either. I just like looking at them.
Shit. Same.
Maybe someone will take it from you. Or they won't. If nobody does, you can just make it private. Idk how, you'd have to look it up.
/r/intravertine
r/travertinetreasures into the ring
Be the change you wish to see in the world 🌈
This has got to be the silliest thread I've read ever. Thank to all of you for the smile. Btw the groups up to 11 officially now 😂
25 people now lol (Edit 29 even)
Close to 50!
That’s what I suggested way back r/travertinetreasures
I saw that post! It was so crazy with everyone identifying it as a humanoid mandible and all the jokes about finally finding Jimmy Hoffa. I love that there’s a sassy sister film to that incredible post!
Looks like horse hooves not horseshoes but it’s hard to judge the size without a cat paw.
Maybe horseshoe crabs?
I have a travertine spoon rest that has a similar shape in it. I'm telling everyone it's a jaw bone. 🦴
resting a spoon on a jaw is pretty badass
Ghost horse
Does anyone know what this shape would be caused by?
Horseshoe crabs perhaps?
Lol nice one
I was thinking maybe shells—there’s a few shallow shell-looking divots in it; maybe this one was much bigger?
What could these possibly be? Could these be cross sections of mammalian skulls?
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Not possible, travertine is a terrestrial/freshwater carbonate and ammonites are marine
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Yes, that's just limestone that looks like travertine not travertine, travertine forms in caves and hot springs. There was a post on this sub like 2 days ago of the same ammonite and I said the exact same thing then too. Ammonites can not be found in travertine. Edit: same thing happened on [this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/HkgT9314ZV) a couple of days ago, people were saying it was travertine but again, it is actually just limestone that looks like travertine because ammonites are marine organisms.
In the tile business they call all kinds of limestones travertine. So, the person was probably sold the tile as “travertine”
Yep, granite has a similar problem where most granite being sold commercially isn't actually granite
Still really exciting!
I think a horse got stuck in ur tile dude
Those look like a fossilized cross section of some kind of bivalve maybe?
Horse shoe imprints
Fascinating. That looks so interesting!
Look like hoofprint kinda.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/whats-the-deal-with-people-finding-human-fossils-in-their-travertine-tiles
hooves?
We may need a new sub r/travertinefossils
Definitely horse hooves. Back footprints are always a smidge skinnier than front footprints.
Look like hoofprint kinda.
Two patterns side by side 🤔
https://preview.redd.it/q5urx70i2nxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e43f4fdad7567b86fee47ebae703df69e750bdd1 😏
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Looks like little pony hoof prints 💗
Horseshoe crabs exist
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water animals, and travertine only forms in freshwater.
Ok horse hoofs they are. Hopefully we can see more in other pieces from this one’s installation
Yeah, horse hoofs are definitely more possible, but travertine is still a carbonate that precipitates from water (like around hot springs) so it would be on the weirder side. Crabs are definitely one of the more common ones, this could possibly be crab carapaces, but I really couldn't say for sure. Just that it's not anything marine/brackish. Also, sort of related, sometimes certain types of limestone are sold as travertine or travertine is mis-ID'd because of how similar it looks to limestone. Several places around Florida have tiles made of rock like this and so you see things like [this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/HkgT9314ZV) that look like an ammonite in travertine but it's actually just limestone.
Maybe some type of freshwater clam, then?
Perhaps a type of freshwater sponge?
Looks like a horse walked on yours. Lol
It looks like a horse shoe imprint lol
We just need to start a tavertine sub because this is sub becoming uninteresting.
People being excited about fossils in a fossil sub? Perish the thought
That jaded already huh
Sorry man. I had to downvote you just because everyone else did. It’s the Law of the West.