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Found this on the Arkansas river in tulsa oklahoma a few days ago. Idk if its even possible for skin to fossilize seemingly around bone?... My guess nessie...lol what do yall think? So odd

Hello everyone! I have recently moved to florida (unfortunately) but prior to that i lived in connecticut. A local sedimentary outcrop from the shuttle meadow formation was not far from my old appartment. I took many trips there in hopes of finding fish fossils, and even though the area was promising no black-gray shale outcrops were visible. i do have many more but here is a piece of what i think is mud cracks in red shale (or mudstone). Once i cracked open the rock this stood out to me immediately... all the other stones of this color in the area were smooth. the interesting thing is on the other side of the sone, seems to be ripple marks. which would make sense considering the mud cracks. any opinions or ideas to what it may be instead, or what type of stone it actually is would be appreciated. once i unpack my remaining boxes i will post more of my finds from this site as well! thanks a bunch everyone, Happy Hunting! also here are a few garnets i collected along the way. the 5 up front are the most complete!