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Here are some fossils, I think they said the little round ones were crinoids, I don't remember what the others are and I was wondering if the bigger one could be a tooth? All found SW MO.

The square shaped one looks like maybe a piece of wood (I put a tiny arrow pointing at what looks like a stripe of gold when magnified, what y'all think?

 

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A couple in that last picture appear to be Protoscutella. That would be eocene age and maybe not from SW MO. If someone gave these to you perhaps they got them elsewhere? Or I could be completely wrong. Keep that in mind.

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No tooth. There is no enamel on it, which a tooth would have. 

Just a rock. 

 

The small round things do look like Crinoid stem columnals/ossicles, which would be in line with Missouri. .

Picture 2 is the internal mold of a brachiopod. 

 

The "stripe of gold" could easily be pyrite.

We would need to see pictures of the ends of the items you believe to be pet wood. 

 

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On 5/18/2021 at 6:43 AM, Plax said:

A couple in that last picture appear to be Protoscutella. That would be eocene age and maybe not from SW MO. If someone gave these to you perhaps they got them elsewhere? Or I could be completely wrong. Keep that in mind.

Nobody gave them to me, they are all found here in missouri and I have some bigger ones I've found before I can put on here sometime, I kept the ones I found before because I thought they were artifacts like beads maybe, I also have a couple of good pictures of a cave ceiling where you can see stacks or rows of these imbedded in it, I've found them all in or around several different caves here.

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54 minutes ago, MoRockHunter said:

Nobody gave them to me, they are all found here in missouri and I have some bigger ones I've found before I can put on here sometime, I kept the ones I found before because I thought they were artifacts like beads maybe, I also have a couple of good pictures of a cave ceiling where you can see stacks or rows of these imbedded in it, I've found them all in or around several different caves here.

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They look like crinoid stems, that’s so cool, really nice preservation. I’ve done some caving on and off through the years and always wanted to find a fossil in a wall somewhere.

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the middle two fossils look like wood or maybe coral,  could you show the edges as well?

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