help identify please.

[Red Earth]

Found in Illinois on a sand bar

 

[Ninjafossils]

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?

 

[Harry Pristis]

I don't recognize it . . . perhaps it's a fragment of a mollusk.

 

[Red Earth]

Makes a clink

 

[GatorBoy]

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

 

[Tigger]

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

 

[Red Earth]

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

 

[Red Earth]

Yes you guys are right.

 

[Red Earth]

Thank you. Strange find in Illinois

 

[dustintimmons_83]

Looks like corral to me..

 

[Red Earth]

It is

 

[wherenext1961]

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.

 

[Red Earth]

Nope. Brush creek outside of Galesburg Illinois

 

[yakker]

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

 

[Tigger]

I found some in Kentucky...