Is this a Fossil

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Went to the C & D canal in Delaware today fossil hunting. Finding a lot of these shells mix in with the Exogyra cancellata fossil I'm finding. Are these fossils also.
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Also just notice in one of my pics is a fossil called Cretaceous Belemnite. Im going to have to collecting them.
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Just looks to be the shell of a land snail. Not fossilized. Recent.

 

Just looks to be the shell of a land snail. Not fossilized. Recent.

Agreed. It looks like one of the Triodopsis species, commonly known as the "Atlantic Threetooth". After they've been weathered for a while the darker brown exterior proteinaceous periostracum rots, leaving the pale-coloured carbonate hipostracum exposed.

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