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Can someone let me know if this is fossilized tree bark or just a different looking stone. Found today along the Fundy Coast in Nova Scotia. It's on standard quad paper 4 squares = 1 inch

Hello everyone, I’ve found this fossil in Nova Scotia, on the shore of Cobequid Bay. I can’t tell if it’s a plant or a fish fossil. I believe it’s a plant. I’ve done some google searches and haven’t found anything that looks like it! would love your help in identifying it

Three years ago, I went to Peggy’s Cove to look around by the lighthouse and enter the nice shops and houses. At some point, I went around looking at the beautiful rock formations created by the glaciers that once covered Nova Scotia during the Pleistocene. I went to one of the very few erratics in the town, and checked underneath to see if I could find anything. I remember there was a cluster of pebbles and stones that were mostly cylindrical, but there were some fragments and shales there as well, however I am not entirely sure if they are endemic to the Mahone Bay / Halifax area aside from places like Little Tancook Island, which does have marine fossils on the beach cliffs dating around the time of the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian. Either way, I found a rock with a strange pattern on it. It was an oval-shaped marking with lines going up towards the edges of the shape in a diagonal pattern. It is definitely some sort of fossil impression, but I am not entirely sure what it was. I know that there are some marine fossils on the islands in the area that comprise of mostly shells, but this one looked more strange to me. I think it could be some sort of mollusk or brachiopod, like the ones that scoured the Australian seas during the Pre-Cambrian period. I unfortunately don’t have the fossil with me, so I can’t take a picture of it. If anybody thinks they know what this could be based on the description of the fossil and the geological/fossil range the place I found it is in, that would really mean a lot.

This was found in Nova Scotia, Canada, along the Bay of Fundy. Fossils in the area were typical carboniferous flora and small arthropod track ways. This was somewhat remote from other fossiliferous layers though. I collected them thinking maybe fish scales, but with a closer look I wonder if they could be pieces of arthropod shell. Notice that they are recognizable mostly by their reflective nature.

I have about 8 acres of coastal estuary in northern Nova Scotia, and decided to take a look at the estuary sediments to see if I could find any fossils. Yes, they are there! Microfossils and lots of other life including ostracoda. Using my hand lens I could see them very well. Will invest at sometime in a microscope and maybe I will see even more. Hand lens for scale for foraminifera and ostracod scale is in millimeters.