My oddest find

[Neogeo]

I found this near-but not in a midden.It's kind of hard on the outside,but chalky inside..I would love to hear what ya'll think..


Looks like fingernail marks..

[uniface]

? ! ? ! ?

[silvercop]

never seen one of those

[Neogeo]

I don't know if it's a fossil imprint or man made.It reminds me of like squished play-dough that hardend.

[jpitt1970]

It almost looks like a fossilized inner ear bone from a whale

[Neogeo]

I had thought that as well,But aren't those smoother?

[The Grim Reaper]

It's a fossilized potato. lol

[Monty]

It's part of a mastadon turd. Well, I'm just going by looks. M nty

Seriously, they have some in the local museum!

[joshuaream]

The archaic peoples around Poverty Point made clay cooking balls that often have that shape and finger marks in them. (They would heat the hard clay balls in a fire and drop them into a skin filled with water to make the water boil.)

That said, it looks more like rock to me, my guess would be some type of fossil.

[GL]

Bite mark?

[abarnard]

Cool, ancient playdough... Sweet..

[Old coin]

I think what you have is a fossilized castropod, which is broken on the ring segments.

[Tnmountains]

Post it in fossils and maybe fossis or some of the people will give you a quick I.D ? Let is know what they say.