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[Septicdeath]

Can anyone identify this. I believe it's fossil coral???

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[lithicbeads]

It looks like a chert nodule like the snakeskin chert nodules from Oregon. Identically shaped nodules with less surface pattern are very common  near Frenchman's coulee in central washington.

[Septicdeath]

It looks like a chert nodule like the snakeskin chert nodules from Oregon. Identically shaped nodules with less surface pattern are very common  near Frenchman's coulee in central washington.

It has a bone smell when grinding. Like the smell of a tooth, or bone.

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[WingnutAndAPrayer]

There's a lot of sponge chert in TX.

[R.U. Sirius]

The symmetrical shape makes me wonder if it could be a vertebra.

[irockhound]

Sorry life's been crazy and I've been ignoring my stones.  I have to laugh on this one with the guesses.  Here is mine.  It is a sedimentary formation like a veil type of stalactite.  You can see in the upper left section and lower right where it was forming concentric rings in the slow deposit of material.  Smell can be a number of things included in the host even sulfurs etc.  Not a bone, not a coral.  I can upload pics of cross sections of veil stalactites for you just not at my finger tips right now.

[WingnutAndAPrayer]

Thank you!

[R.U. Sirius]

I agree with Steve on both points. After another, more careful look at the picture I find my previous guess (vertebra) ridiculous.