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What is this marine creature? Is this a fossil? Found this on a beach on the East coast of India - Vishakhapatnam, India Is this a fossil? A coral? ![enter image description here]( Its small enough to fit in my hand ![enter image description here]( These tunnel-like structures are hard like rock/calcified ![enter image description here]( Obverse ![enter image description here]( Obverse

Its not a fossil.

It is just shells of various marine invertebrates that get stuck together as they grow. It looks like worm-snails on a a large piece of clam shell. the little holes in the clam shell are bored by sea snails and erosion.

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there are whole blogs devoted to finding interesting examples. <

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