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average size driveway gravel, found today. Looks kinda like a spine, so that's how I described it, likely not a spine at all but definitely a fossil of something

slightly larger than average piece of driveway gravel with heavy black lines and smears on both sides. No indented fossils, but I wondered if this could be some sort of fossil from something.

I know it's not teeth but I just used that in the description. it goes all the way around the rock so I assume it goess through it, too. but it might not.

By way of introduction, I am in my 8th decade on this terrestrial, fossil filled, ball. Retired accountant, numismatist, avid reader, piddler, open minded, you may meet people as non-judgmental as I am but I doubt you'll meet many any less judgmental. I've always had an interest in fossils but one day I found one! Maybe 5 to 8 years ago. I have a gravel driveway maybe 100 + a few feet long which I had just had re rocked. Rolling my garbage cans down to the street and looking down, as is my habit (never know what you'll find, but I didn't really expect to find anything in my driveway), and just as I swung the cans into position my eye noticed an interesting looking rock. I picked it up and believed I had found my first fossil! It's the pic in my profile. I believe it's a trilobite or some such. I have since found more, but I cannot identify them beyond if they're not a fossil of something then I don't have any idea what they are. A group of five of the better ones, including the one in my profile, is in this pic. I found a fossil yesterday, even, as well as a hagstone. I have learned a rock with a naturally occurring hole in it is a hagstone, and the finder of such is brought good luck. But only the finder. If I give it to someone else it does not work. However, if I return it to nature and someone finds it without my telling them anything, it apparently works again. I don't know if it's true but I have been mightily blessed the last few years since finding my first one. Of course, I had been mighily blessed prior to that. But who knows if it would have continued but for these hagstones. While looking through them, I have maybe 40, I noticed one has TWO holes. That ought to be worth something! My purpose is to make like minded friends and share pics. Maybe learn something.

I'm back with a few more small finds: A. Another brachiopod(?) that I found in the driveway gravel (supposedly from the Slade formation). Looks a bit different than my others (the ridges aren't as deep and it's more shiny). The rock is 1" long. B. An oddly-textured rock from the creek (Pikeville formation, though the rock may have originated from elsewhere). I noticed a couple shapes on it that might be fossils (maybe crinoid or worm burrows). The rock measures about 6.5cm wide and 4cm tall. C. Poor picture, but here's another from the driveway. I've seen a few pieces with some of these "washer" shapes on them (which I tend to associate with crinoids), but this one is literally covered! I'm thinking that it might be some kind of coral or an oolith. It's about 3.5cm long. D. I posted this in my previous topic, but I think I did so too late to get any views. Found in the creek, but probably came from the driveway due to its appearance. Looks like marine bits of something. Poorly-preserved, but neat to look at anyway. Measures 1.5" long.