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Any thought on this?? anyone?? I have one much larger too!!

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I believe the pencil like objects are called Belemnites. Very nice find. Where did you get it?

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Excavating to build my new house in Newfoundland canada.... I have never seen nothing like this. I have no idea about fossils and would love to no more about what I have here.

Really don't know how to find out anything about this other then ask!!...Thanks everyone for your opinions, although they all vary differently.. I have searched the internet for days and have come across nothing that resembles this at all.. which makes me quite curious and my 9 year old son believes he is a avid fossil hunter and this is his prize position...He spends all his free time combing the beaches and back yards for fascinating rocks and fossils...

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I'm afraid the shapes are too irregular for belemnites.

If you blow it up on screen, it seems to be a sedimentological feature, with shattered pieces of an earlier layer cemented together by the next one. Interesting find and good photo!

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I believe it may have started out as something organic, maybe echinoderm spine pickup sticks :D . But in and off itself I think it is a trace fossil. Cool looking.

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The features are very irregular; so much so that I can't quite reconcile them with anything organic...

They are more irregularly 'blade-like' than 'pencil-like':

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It looks like a turbulent hash of very worn and broken pelecypod shells.

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For me looks like some clam/shell fragments cemented together.

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:popcorn: very odd

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen

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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes

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looks to me like a breccia of some sort. maybe a shaly layer ripped up and re-deposited by a storm. i see no fossils.

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I'm afraid the shapes are too irregular for belemnites.

If you blow it up on screen, it seems to be a sedimentological feature, with shattered pieces of an earlier layer cemented together by the next one. Interesting find and good photo!

I agree complertely with TqB.. and at the risk of sounding like a geologist, I will throw this term out at ya... imbricated conglomerate. try this on for size... and rememebr that the drawing on the site is more perfect than Mother Nature. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/283415/imbricate-bedding

No fossils in there, not belemnites nor clams. It is a sedimaentary structure. It is a very cool rock. Hold on to it.

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