A little help?

[KAJ]

A little help from the larger fossil community? I'm new to this site and am an amateur fossil hunter. Sometimes you just know you have a fossil.  Other times you just aren't quite sure.  In this case it's the latter.

 

I found this at OCMD ( EDIT: Ocean City, Maryland) in August of '22.  At first glance, I see a tooth! But, ever cautious I remain somewhat skeptical because if it is, I can't tell you from what.  I have definite shark teeth and this doesn't seem to fit the bill.  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

 

[Ludwigia]

I really wish that people wouldn't use abbreviations like this on an international forum. I have absolutely no idea where OCMD is, so I can't help you very much other than to say that this looks to me like a suggestively shaped weathered stone.

[KAJ]

My apologies. Ocean City, Maryland, USA.

[Kane]

Topic moved to Fossil ID

[Fin Lover]

Sorry, I'm not seeing a tooth or other fossil.

[Randyw]

I'm also just seeing a stone...

[KAJ]

Perfectly fine all! That's why I sought out this group. More seasoned eyes than my own. Thank you.

[KAJ]

I'd like to add this submission while we're at it.  Found in the Tuscarora Forest in Pennsylvania, USA this past September.

I'm noticing a curved, segmented body, reminiscent of some kind of worm.

 

 

[Ludwigia]

I see what you mean, but my impression is that of differential weathering.

[ted coulianos]

I spent many hours beachcombing the shores of Ocean City, and Assateague Island, Maryland, U.S.A.  and found many an interesting-shaped pebble or cobble., of which yours is a good example.  Occasionally a piece of nondescript mammoth bone would wash up; some of the commercial trawlers fishing offshore would sometimes bring up  pygmy mammoth teeth and bones.  As the sea level was lower during the Pleistocene the shoreline of what are now barrier islands from Delaware on south to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina was much farther out.  But Ocean City (& other towns) used to pump/dredge offshore sands & sediments onto the beaches to control beach erosion; occasionally you can find the odd steinkern or bone mixed with the sand & pebbles.

Bugeye-Times-Winter-2009-2010 (calvertmarinemuseum.com)

[hemipristis]

22 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

I really wish that people wouldn't use abbreviations like this on an international forum. I have absolutely no idea where OCMD is, so I can't help you very much other than to say that this looks to me like a suggestively shaped weathered stone.

Poster only abbreviated MD, not OC.  A quick google search would have revealed the location using “ocean city md”

[Kane]

1 minute ago, hemipristis said:

Poster only abbreviated MD, not OC.  A quick google search would have revealed the location using “ocean city md”

Before editing by a member of staff, the original poster had written OCMD. 
It is still a courtesy to write out abbreviations for locations.  

[Ludwigia]

2 hours ago, hemipristis said:

Poster only abbreviated MD, not OC.  A quick google search would have revealed the location using “ocean city md”

It was edited AFTER I made my comment . And why should I go out of my way to search google when he could type the whole name in the first place? And he did end up apologizing and posting the full name for us, which was very polite of him.