Help Id'ing Creek Fossil

[aaronc]

Hello Gentlemen, I'm looking for a little help with an ID. I'm 48 and a Kentucky boy. This week I started browsing some creeks looking for arrowheads, it's something I have never done and just wanted to try. I ran into this rock with an organized pattern on it.....appears to be something that is fossil-ish to me. However I don't know much about fossils so you guys see what you think. Thanks for looking, -Aaron 

 

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by aaronc

[Rockwood]

Is there any chance that coal is mined, or seen in the area ? A poorly preserved Calamites pith cast in sandstone could look like this. I can't identify it as such from this alone though. 

[aaronc]

4 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Is there any chance that coal is mined, or seen in the area ? A poorly preserved Calamites pith cast in sandstone could look like this. I can't identify it as such from this alone though. 

 

Well this is Kentucky so I can't say for sure that there isn't any coal around anywhere but no, the nearest mine would be over an hour away. I don't know of anyone running into any coal locally.  If it helps here is a pic of the creek I pulled it out of.  Thanks for the reply. -Aaron

 

 

 

 

[Rockwood]

Plant fossil seems very unlikely. It's just a guess, but it could be bedding planes that have been obscured by cleavage planes that are much more developed. Tectonic movements compressing and aligning minerals would be the cause.                     

[Kentuckiana Mike]

I think you may have found a stylolite. They are common in north central Kentucky area.

 

https://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/2009/10/pseudofossil-called-stylolite.html