Wood? Bone? Fossil walkie talkie?

[The Neanderoll]

Hello there all! 

 

I picked this oddity up last weekend. Since then I've been staring at it and... well... I can't make head nor tails of it.

 

Seems to be soooomething?

 

Found on the Yorkshire coast, along ice age clay cliffs

[The Neanderoll]

[The Neanderoll]

[The Neanderoll]

[Rockwood]

I think the first side looks like brachiopod molds. The other features may be a displacement similar to slikensides.

[The Neanderoll]

[TqB]

The lineated bit looks like plant material. I believe the holes are modern, bored by piddocks.

[Rockwood]

19 minutes ago, TqB said:

The lineated bit looks like plant material. I believe the holes are modern, bored by piddocks.

Probably is an easier fit. I just happened to have recently moved a brachiopod in my collection that looks much like it.

[The Neanderoll]

3 hours ago, TqB said:

The lineated bit looks like plant material. I believe the holes are modern, bored by piddocks.

Piddocks are pretty gnarly! On the third image there's still some rock like substance in one of the holes?

 

More likely to be bivalves then?

 

Also thanks all! Could totes be plant material. It looks like it runs through the block? Some kind of bark maybe?

[TqB]

4 minutes ago, The Neanderoll said:

Piddocks are pretty gnarly! On the third image there's still some rock like substance in one of the holes?

 

More likely to be bivalves then?

I don't think they're fossil moulds, though piddock may be wrong (they are common around there though). Maybe mini nodules that have weathered out? There seems to be some different rock in here too: