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It looks like a top piece off a iron fence. Did you find this near a old home place? It could also be a old auger bit of some type. But I think it is off the top of a wrought iron fence post.

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Sam240, No fencing anywhere in the vicinity.
The specimen was taken directly from the matrix and does not react to a metal detector in an all metal/iron setting. I have a picture attached of a section of the matrix it came from as an example.
The fossilized aluvial sediment has a dinosaur gastrolith protruding from it and has several water worn shark teeth as well as other boney material throughout.
Nice try, I will continue to monitor any input anyone has on this specimen.

I will reconsider Lewis Jacobs' offer to examine it in SMU's laboratory with an understanding that it will be returned with minimal damage.

So far, the paleoentomologist has the upper hand on any positive identification.
Still though it does not exibit any of the norm for insect burrowing, but it does exibit some egg casing appearances.
Has anyone ever seen a shark egg casing before? It does have some of the same appearances but that would mean it was fossilized before being deposited in the matrix and a shark egg casing is soft material.
Identification is still a mystery......

Allen, by far you have one of the most ludicrist and possibily the funniest I have ever heard. I just had to reply to your post. 
BTW I'm still laughing.

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Thank you for your input.
I just got an e-mail from a fellow collector and he suggested that a thumb spike
simular to the one the iguanodon displays or something damn near like it.
I told him now we're getting somewhere. That does seem likely.
He also added that what I have may only be the core. The original with possible sheathing
may have been considerably bigger.

From what I understand about Paleontology, we do have knowledge
about even half of the fauna that once existed.

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	Thank you for your input. I just got an e-mail from a fellow collector and he suggested that a thumb spike simular to the one the iguanodon displays or something damn near like it. I told him now we're getting somewhere. That does seem likely. He also added that what I have may only be the core. The original with possible sheathing may have been considerably bigger. From what I understand about Paleontology, we do have knowledge about even half of the fauna that once existed. Out4gold

Seems like someone posted that it could be a mutation several replies back.

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