Fossil ID October 14, 2006

What is it? Ask the Expert and Find Out!
The fossil pictured is……..?

What is it?

hello how are you ? first let me introduce myself my name is antonyous : from egypt and I’m writing to you because I think I have some thing very important it’s a fossils, I guess it’s age is  a millions of years, I found it at a desert and I attached some images of this fossil with this message if this fossils is important for you, or you need it, or you want to know the location of  fossils,  please contact me

best regards
anonymous

They are a piece of petrified wood, an ocean snail and an echinoid or sand dollar. They are very common, but we don’t have any from where he is.
None of them are worth more than a few dollars each. It would be good to know how much he wants.
Joe Taylor

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