Any help identifying any of these would be appreciated.

[Iowaguy8263]

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Rocks. Two with trace fossils.

 

[Iowaguy8263]

The one has a almost perfect circle in the face and a couple dents that fit my fingers perfect so I'm guessing it's more than a rock and definitely not a fossil. The next biggest piece has a wired ridge along the top makes me think of native pottery and was found in a stream the first piece was in a dry Creek bed. The white piece looks like it's been worked wondered if maybe a native scraper of some sorts. And last piece has to perfect holes going all the way threw it and looks like it had at least one more one the broken side and was also a stream find.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

"Trace fossils" are where things were. Not the fossilized remains of the things themselves.

The holes all the way through are where crinoids or tube-worms had been in the silt and the silt turned to rock.

The "perfect circle" is possibly where the lip of a limpet shell or similar was and, again, the silt hardened to rock.

 

[Iowaguy8263]

So your saying this is a trace fossil and not native American tool? I'm in Northeast Iowa along the wapsipinicon river which was a hot bed for native American movement from South Dakota to Minnesota

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Ask yourself if it were a tool what would that tool be used for? And how would it have been made?