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 Hi all. I am new to this forum. Please help me to identify fully fossilized Tusk. Line Chrager is not displayed. Size 40х55х125 mm. Thank you.

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Welcome to the Forum. :)

 

Your item has no Schreger Lines visible/present.

Not a tusk, unfortunately. 

Looks more like a dense piece of flint or chert. 

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3 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Looks more like a dense piece of flint or chert. 

The texture and fracture are wrong for a quartzite like flint or chert.

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So, possibly some sort of coral?

 

Polypary

noun, plural polyparies.
1. The common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, as corals.

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I think it's a rudist lower valve.

I suspect it being a Vaccinites species. (polished end cut)

 

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samples from here

 

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I thank all those who responded. 

I would like to cancel that this object is completely mineralized. In fact, it's a stone.  Here are some more photos

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8 hours ago, waller1 said:

In fact, it's a stone.

 

Here's a petrified rudist from Upper Cretaceous of Romania, in my collection.

 

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