Your Guess is Better Than Mine: Fossil Calamite? Scaled bark? Animal? ( Missouri )

[Samurai]

Location is in Missouri

The area is dated to the Pennsylvanian 

Formation: ????

 

Hello! it is I once again I was curious on what this might be as it looks different from what I usually see in this type shale

 

I have found Pyrite Calamites in shale  but they usually don't have this texture so I was unsure of what exactly it may be.

 

Zoomed in picture of the texture: 

 

Other side of this shale:

 

Not Sure if these will help with the ID but here is the picture with the end pieces visible

 

 

also for those interested here is the pyritized calamite I found near this:

 

 

 

Edited May 30, 2021 by Samurai

[Lone Hunter]

I think it may be bryzoan.

[Samurai]

2 minutes ago, Lone Hunter said:

I think it may be bryozoan.

Thank you for the id and now that I look at it, it does look like a bryozoan 

[Fossildude19]

Could be a bryozoan, or it could be some type of arthropod.

Not sure there is enough there to tell for sure which it may be.

 

Cropped and contrasted: