OLD fossil..never seen one like it..help me identify!! please..:)

[grogmug]

Actually a co-worker brought this to me because she knows I love this stuff, but I told her I would get your alls advice and opinions on how old, where it came from, and what exactly it is?!?! I can't figure it out, but we would really like to know...
thanks in advance for your help!
JT

 

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[Paul4x4]

My guess would be a partial trilobite. The axial lobe part of it to be exact, according to wikipedia at least... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite

 

[bakergeol]

It looks like a midget Egyptian mummy.

Actually looks like a straight cephalopod.
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/cephalopods.htm

George

 

[ohio]

Bakergeol is right it is a cephalopod.
Chuck

 

[TSP99]

Hello,

I think it is something like the middle half of a big snake.

-TSP99

 

[irbaddadjoe]

Piece of Arthropod.

 

[flflintknapper]

Looks like a stingray mouth plate to me. We have a ton of them in Fl

 

[Nick in NEPA]

Orthoceras?

 

[cooltone23]

Lobster tail?