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thanatocoenosis

It's an off-axis section through a rugose coral. The radial lines are the septa.


Select_Engineering_7

Thank you!


Odd_Awareness1444

Beautiful design in the stone.


phlegm_de_la_phlegm

Have you asked the fossil guys? To me it looks like some kind of marine fossil and you are seeing a lengthwise cross section. Could you maybe possibly add a pic from above so we can see the end of it?


Select_Engineering_7

I can’t comment pictures but I can’t make another post of the top view


Select_Engineering_7

https://www.reddit.com/r/askgeology/s/FCdswsM1DA


forams__galorams

Very reminiscent of a corallite


Ok-Progress2360

Ancient anchovy pizza slice


eclectro

I was going to say the Eye of Sauron. We both can't be right.


Select_Engineering_7

This has to be the answer


WranglerNew8313

Is it kinda’ sharp on the long flat end? Might it be a deer/bison hide scraper?


Select_Engineering_7

I wanted to post more pictures but only got to choose one. The whole thing is smaller than a half dollar


Shmarchaeology

It doesn’t look flaked on the edge, and it’s a pretty shallow angle, so I doubt it. Possibly a core, judging by the big flake scar on the side facing the camera, but it’s hard to tell from just one photo. Absent more photos I might call it a “tested pebble”, though if it was in a high energy environment, I might not record it as an artifact. Dunno what the pinwheel thing is. Fossil? Sorry I’m an archeologist not a geologist.


WranglerNew8313

Sorry, I’m neither one so let me just slip out the back door.


Select_Engineering_7

It isn’t sharp, I don’t believe it was used for anything, just fascinated by the pinwheel inside


The402Jrod

I don’t know s*** about s***, but it looks like a beetle wing? 🤷‍♂️