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This looks tooth shaped but has a pattern like reptile skin or alligator. The one pic I am pointing to end that is broken off and where you can see it's bone. The pattern is different on each side. Best image I can get though blurry where details can be made out. I give up what is it?

While vacationing in southeastern Tennessee (think Georgia/Carolina/Tenessee border, 1 hour from Atlanta) a couple of years ago I was helping my cousin move some rocks and found this fossil in a sedimentary / limestone type of rock that we were moving from someone's backyard to use as his pond border. It looked like a snake skin and I foune that most typically it would be a lycopod. I looked at the lycopod images on the web and found what may be two differences. 1) the symetry on the fossil scales seems to run perpendicular to the main axis of the stem/body of the fossil. On the lycopod fossils I saw on the web the "grain" of the scales was with the length of the stem. 2) There are 5 round (about 1/4 inch, maybe a little larger) impressions in the fossil running in a line with the grain of the fossil. The overall length of the rock in the picture is about 6 inches at it's longest point. Thhe length of the fossilized portion is 3.5 inches and it continues off of each side of the rock. The width is about an inch. Thanks in advance for any info or help you can provide.

This is front and back of the fossil found in louisiana although may not have came from there was found in some gravel! Looks like snakeskin or honeycomb maybe?