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Went out for a hunt, got skunked at my best spot, on the way back out I decided to take a detour to a field I hadn’t looked over in several months, came up with this point before the rain got me. This is the biggest point I’ve found in quite a while and never had one with so many fossils. I’m impressed that someone could get a point out such a material.
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That is the neatest looking point I have seen in awhile. Those fossils are easily visible and identifiable. I have seen lots of stuff with oolites, but I don't think I have ever seen one with a little bivalve/clam/whatever that is. Do you know the name of the geologic formation that chert comes from?

It also looks to me like your find there, a hafted biface, certainly may have started life as a dart point, but that it's final application was as a knife. It has definitely been heavily resharpened along one edge.
 

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I don’t know the stone off the top of my head but I’ll definitely be looking, I see the bivalve, there’s a cross section of a crinoid, some bryozoans, and various other scraps.
I agree on the knife, when I did the title I was just thinking dart because it’s bigger than an arrowhead. The way it’s been sharpened says knife to me.
I’m between a few types, Langtry, Dickson, or hidden valley. I kinda like it for hidden valley.
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Thanks all, I’m definitely going to be on the lookout for what kind of material that is, looks similar to hertha but I’ve never seen hertha with that level of obvious fossils
 

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