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the picture is too blurry... but it looks like some kind of pyritized fossil.

Pyrite= fools goold, so your not the first to confuse it with gold.

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better... I'm no expert at the stuff out there, but it looks even more like a pyritized orthoceras type fossil. Google orthoceras and see if any of the pix that come up look like yours...

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I would agree with pyritized cephalopod.

Probably Ordovician in age.

Neat find.

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the top of the gold is like a nozzle and is still in its form and its a perfect circle with a lil tip i have always thoght this was some alien stuff

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Hi johnnie1,

I'm seeing a cephalopod too. Maybe some better images would help. The colors and lighting in the second image are pretty good, but it is still a bit out of focus.

"They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things."

-- Terry Pratchett

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The "nozzle" is where the siphuncle for the cephalopod was, and that end did not get crushed flat like the rest of it.

I'm pretty confident on the pyritized cephalopod id.

Another similar one CLICK HERE.

Another LINK.

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And I hate top sound like an old fart, but could you please use punctuation.

Repeating:

And I hate to sound? Like an old. Fart could you please use, punctuation.

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Here's a pic from the web showing similar structures.

post-2806-0-64700900-1360035182_thumb.jp

I think you are seeing the rounded end of a chamber and siphuncle with parts surrounding it worn away.

Here's a diagram of what the critters looked like.

post-2806-0-19753400-1360035249_thumb.jp

And if it eroded differently it might look like this - Voila` - very similar "nozzle" to your fossil.

post-2806-0-89087500-1360035800_thumb.jp post-2806-0-67548200-1360036035_thumb.jp

It's a very cool fossil.

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The last picture says it all. That is defintely an orthoceras type shell. It is crushed, so only slightly 3 dimensional. Look at fossildude19's picture with the black stuff describing how yours fell apart, oh so many years ago. Bingo. That little nipploid projection is indeed the siphuncle, and the circular surface is the shape of the sutures. Thanks for posting better pix.

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I agree with jpc, but that is an incredible find!

On the plus side you should email the Ancient Aliens producers, they would eat that beauty up!

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