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Found these while having a stroll on the beach on the southwestern tip of lake Michigan, in Illinois just south of the Wisconsin border.

I am about as novice as you can get, and found this site while trying to figure out what these are... I'm pretty confident that the rings are crinoid stems, unsure about everything else.

Hope the pictures are good enough, hard to photograph small things with a phone camera.

Mostly curious about the spike shape on this one

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The smaller one here is the backside of the one above

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I don't know if these two are fossils, they look kind of crystalline but I don't know enough to say.

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That same spike shape seems to be super common, there's lots of them

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This one I am near 100% sure is coral, just unsure of what family or grouping it belongs to

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3rd and 4th items are Favosites corals.

Last one looks like a rugose coral.

 

The sharp item may be an orthocone cephalopod.  :unsure:

Cropped and brightened:

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First large item looks like crinoidal limestone.

Cropped and brightened:

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1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

3rd and 4th items are Favosites corals.

Last one looks like a rugose coral.

 

The sharp item may be an orthocone cephalopod.  :unsure:

Cropped and brightened:

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First large item looks like crinoidal limestone.

Cropped and brightened:

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Thank you so much! 

One other question, the larger favosites coral seems to have been filled in with crystal (the rock is totally dry in the posted picture, the shiny spots are crystals), is there a mineral that normally does that? They are mostly white to dark yellow 

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Could be calcite or quartz.

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