What could this be?

[Millie]

I found this approx: 15 yrs ago, it looks 2 me like a petrified oyster; unopened.

 

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[omnicognic]

A fossil clam! it forms when mud gets trapped inside the shell and becomes fossilized! great find! HH omnicognic! 8)

 

[pepperpump]

Looks like an oyster to me as well...
Pepperpump

 

[bakergeol]

I believe this was found at the bottom of Omnicognic's Lazy-Z- Boy chamber pot on the adjacent "What is this" thread.

George

 

[Leon]

Thats what it looks like to me... Clam, Muscle...
I've never seen anything like it, very cool...
A Museum might be interested in that one,,, WTG!!!

 

[mojjax]

Looks like a plummet ?. They were made and used by indians hundreds / thousands of years ago ?for fishing . The "RED PAINT" people of New England date back 6000 years . I have a book on them and it has pictures of plummets just like yours . Nice find !!

 

[searcher]

this appears to be a bivalve mollusk in very good shape! heres a few from here.. they are very abbundant in this part of Texas..
the little thing in the middle is a sea urchin... hope this helps H.H. searcher

 

[searcher]

bring on the what's it's!!! there is alot of gray matter power on this forum to spread around!! and more being added almost daily...
hooooyyaaaaa!!!(ouch hurt myself)
searcher

 

[DEEP NORTH WOODS]

very cool find worth a few bucks 8)

 

[searcher]

if these are worth $ let me know were the market is .... i could be sitting on a gold mine ...haha!!!!
searcher

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

E-bay!

 

[surfrat96]

Never saw one before. Cool!! Welcome to the forum!!

HH 8) surfrat

 

[diggummup]

They're pretty common down here in Florida as well.Here's one- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? diggummup!

 

[diggummup]

Okay,so its a clam not an oyster.........H.H.