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Moved to FOSSIL ID. ;) 

 

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Looks like you have found a dried out mushroom.

Most likely NOT a fossil, as fossil mushrooms are rare, and usually found as compression fossils, rather than in 3-D, like this. 

I'd be willing to bet if you held a flame to it, it would eventually start burning. 

 

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I agree. Not a fossil but a type of hard fungus from a family that is usually found growing on the sides of trees and logs and are known as bracket or shelf fungi. The one you found looks like some I've seen that were growing up through the soil from the submerged roots/stump of a recently downed tree.  Although similar, I'm not sure if they're technically a bracket fungus or not.

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