What is this Object?

[The Supreme Canuck]

I found it on a beach in either North or South Carolina a number of years ago. Looks kind of like a tooth to me, but I could just be seeing things. It seems to definitely be made of stone, and it certainly doesn't look like someone carved it out.

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Sorry for the poor quality of the large images. My digital camera doesn't like zooming in that close to something that small.

[Sam5]

It looks like some kind of seed to me.

[the_shaggy_one]

It could be a fossil. Clearer images would help :P

[Candy]

It looks like an arrow head to me, not yet finished. That's just from the photo's posted.

[archman]

Fossil internal cast/mold (sorry I get them confused) of a bivalve. I have a pile of the things in my office. They vary taxonomically and in geologic age... yours is probably Cenozoic if it came off a beach in the Carolinas.

[Maksutov]

Fossil internal cast/mold (sorry I get them confused) of a bivalve. I have a pile of the things in my office. They vary taxonomically and in geologic age... yours is probably Cenozoic if it came off a beach in the Carolinas.

Good work!

It would be a casting, the mold was the bivalve's shells.

Time to drag out my Crinoid fossils to see if you can date them!

[The Supreme Canuck]

Fossil internal cast/mold (sorry I get them confused) of a bivalve. I have a pile of the things in my office. They vary taxonomically and in geologic age... yours is probably Cenozoic if it came off a beach in the Carolinas.

Ah! Wonderful, thank you!

[Sam5]

See the drawings at the bottom of this page:

http://gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/histor..._exercises.php

[Candy]

Wow, look at the very bottom of the page.

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[Candy]

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This is me! I think. 8-[

[Captain Kidd]

Neat, I never seem to find anything cool. Even the buckeyes I've found are usually rotten or cracked.

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This is me! I think. 8-[

You have to refresh once. Ohterwise you see who was there right before. Or at least it was that way with me.

[Candy]

You have to refresh once. Otherwise, you see who was there right before. Or at least it was that way with me.

I don't think this is you, right?

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[SeanF]

This is apparently me:

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For some reason that makes me feel good . . .

[Candy]

This is apparently me:

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For some reason that makes me feel good . . .

I got that too, when I did a refresh. Do it again, SeanF?

[Candy]

I'm sorry for derailing this thread, but this is kind of fun!

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SeanF?