Identification help please

[RebeccaW2021]

Hi everyone!!!

Just having a tough time identifying whether this is fossilized wood or a fragment of tusk. It feels weighty, and doesn't feel like a regular stick of wood if that makes sense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you!

I should mention it was found along an estuary, and was part buried and part exposed so likely once buried and the tide had exposed it

 

Edited June 10, 2021 by RebeccaW2021

[Coco]

Keep in mind that in order to provide identification, we need to know the place of origin and size

 

Coco

[Shellseeker]

On 6/10/2021 at 3:49 PM, RebeccaW2021 said:

Hi everyone!!!

Just having a tough time identifying whether this is fossilized wood or a fragment of tusk. It feels weighty, and doesn't feel like a regular stick of wood if that makes sense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you!

I should mention it was found along an estuary, and was part buried and part exposed so likely once buried and the tide had exposed it

 

It is not tusk.  Tusk is ivory has Schreger lines. There are no indication of Schreger lines in any of your photos.

Fossilized wood is rarer than fossil bone which is rarer than modern wood. Which ever is the base material, there is some sort of whitish encrustation that I do not recognize. 

I believe that the most likely base material is bone.    Jack

[Rockwood]

I agree that this is fossil bone. I'm thinking the odd features may be more of an infestation than encrustation though. Perhaps burrowing when the piece was fresh, or maybe root damage at some  subsequent time.