help identify please.

Red Earth

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Ninjafossils

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It vaguely resembles this type of hard shelled but that are commonly found in the river. Does it make a "clink" noise when you tap it with a spoon?
 

GatorBoy

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If I found that here in FL. I would think it was a piece of fossil coral
 

Tigger

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what GatorBoy said. Google images of "horn coral fossil" and see if that's close.
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Red Earth

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Yes. You guys are right. Is it pretty uncommon to find something like that in illinois?
 

wherenext1961

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It does look like a horn corral fossil. Pretty cool to find something you only thought was in the ocean. We have found them in lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Did you find it around Lake Michigan? There are horn coral fossils to be found in the Great Lakes Region.
 

yakker

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Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised at all that it's horn coral. Seems there was water nearly everywhere at one point or another. Yak
 

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