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Hi Troy! I’m having a little trouble telling from the picture so do you think this fossil is one continuous spiral or are these stacked chambers? If one spiral, then it is probably a gastropod (snail). If it is stacked chambers, then it is probably some sort of cephalopod (group containing squids, octopi and ammonites).

Not a spiral,more like the stacked chambers with a small round circle that seems to go thru each section.

Hi, Troy! Looks like a cephalopod to me! I can sort of make out the siphuncle (tube within the stacked chambers) and it appears to be not central – which is an identification clue.

Thank you, sorry for the poor photo.

The pictures are pretty blurry, and there’s no size information/scale or horizon info, so it’s hard to make an ID…. It’s definitely not a brachiopod, so at least there’s that. If it’s tiny, my guess would be a tentaculitid of some kind. If it’s large, as it almost seems to be in the first photo, it begins to look more like a cephalopod.

Could it be a hyolith?

Looks like turritella snail shell to me