Frankstown, MS Find - Please help identify

[MaximusTN]

Please help identify the object in the pics below. These were obtained from the WM Browning Cretaceous Fossil park in Frankstown, MS. This was a unique find compared to the typical fossils found there. This does not appear to be a 'rock', but not a shark tooth either.

 

Thanks

[Fruitbat]

Looks like you've got a section of a baculite (cephalopod) shell to me!

 

-Joe

[abyssunder]

That's correct!

[Auspex]

To expand a bit on what the others have said, it is one in-filled chamber, between the convoluted septa, of a straight-shelled heteromorph ammonite.

To the western Indians, these oddities looked like little buffalo tokens.
I think they would be an excellent Monopoly game piece.

[Oxytropidoceras]

Pictures of this type of fossil can be seen in the Fossil Forum at:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/image/8767-us-baculite-segments/

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/album/703-baculites-amp-ammos/

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[MaximusTN]

Thanks for helping to identify this fossil. I was just digging through my jar of miscellaneous items from Frankstown and this one just stuck out to me. It does look like a buffalo!!