Animal/Vegetable/Mineral? (MINERAL!)

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UPDATE! Thanks to cyberpal Angela for identifying this specimen as a styolite, i.e. a mineral!

This first pic (if you click on it) is an EXTREMELY hi-res shot, over 2k pixels wide. This one is a real oddball:

Limestone something-or-other

It looks almost like gypsum, but found in the Boone Limestone formation, must be ... a fossil? You tell me!

Here's a view of the top:

Limestone something-or-other overhead view

What do you think?

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