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Found this while fossil hunting in Lyme Regis  U.K. I’m pretty new to this and stumped so if anyone can help me figure out what it is...

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Welcome to the Forum. :)

 

This looks like a chert or flint nodule to me. 

That may be the remains of a sponge fossil, but I can't tell a dish sponge from a glass sponge. ;) 

Maybe @TqB or @FossilDAWG will weigh in here. 

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Welcome to TFF!

It looks like a chert nodule with matrix attached. There also appears to be a fossil sponge in the chert.

Maybe @JohnBrewer can help.

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Hi, thank you, yes it was an oval shaped flint nodule but hollow when split, the structure inside is runs further through but i didn’t want to damage it so left it at that, it’s nice to have some idea 

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The inside of the flint nodule is not clearly visible on your pictures, but I'm inclined to believe that the tubular shaped little "things" might be sponge spicules or sponge root tufts. Here is an example:

 

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pictures from here

 

- and another example from S. Chang et al. 2016. Sponge spicules from the lower Cambrian in the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The earliest biomineralizing sponge record. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol.

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