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I recently went to green mill run and found this strange fossil and I'm not sure what it is. Does anyone know what this is?

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So this is totally a guess, but to me it looks like a Belemnite. A belemnite is a cephalopod that looks somewhat like a squid. They were around from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous.

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To me, it does not look like a belemnite since one end of a belemnite is pointy, the other flat.

This piece has both pointy ends.

This is really hard to tell. 

Hopefully others can help.

Regards.

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It looks like a tilly bone from a fish. Most likely from the Pliocene Yorktown Formation.

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On 3/31/2019 at 6:28 AM, Al Dente said:

It looks like a tilly bone from a fish. Most likely from the Pliocene Yorktown Formation.

I agree. GMR is a mixed hodgepodge of formations and fossils.

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