Amaturerockguy Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Hey everyone . I found this on my local beach North coast of NSW Australia. I have no idea what it is it's really got me and my friends stumped I can't find anything like it on line anywhere .. it looks like a rock that has been some how encased in shell .. there is also a worm track/ hole on one side going through the shell into the rock if that's what it even is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fossildude19 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Welcome to the Forum. Looks like a piece of oyster shell, with some matrix attached. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 part of an oyster shell "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Oyster, as Tim and Herb have said. I don't think this is a fossil. Oysters start out as "sprat" attached to some substrate. In this case it seems the substrate was a rock that was small enough that as the oyster grew it came to envelope the rock. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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