Can you please help identify this - found in Charmouth (uk) last week.

[Lsgraham]

Could anyone please help in identifying if this is a fossil. It was found last week (14/08/2024) on Charmouth beach in UK. I was drawn to this brown core through the middle of the rock and wondered if it is from a tree or a bone?  Any help would be greatly received. 

 

I found the following 

[Jaybot]

Interesting find; is it possible to get magnified close-ups of the brown section?  This could help determine bone vs other

[Lsgraham]

9 minutes ago, Jaybot said:

Interesting find; is it possible to get magnified close-ups of the brown section?  This could help determine bone vs other

Sadly I don't have a decent way of magnifying - this was done via my camera set to 2x zoom and a magnifying glass. Thanks for response though!

[Jaybot]

Thank you

My gut says plant material, but I should wait to hear the opinion of some of our members from 'across the pond'.

 

@LiamL@TqB And others that I am forgetting (sorry)

[Lsgraham]

Thank you so much

 

[LiamL]

It's either wood, or a coprolite I think.

[Lsgraham]

I would love it to be a coprolite - would make my daughter laugh!

[TqB]

Wood I think.

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Don't see a honey comb texture typical of bone, so not bone for me. Also, much of the bone found at Lyme Regis is quite heavily pyritised and black. Coprolites, on the other hand, are rather amorphous and gray with beige/light brown colour alterations. Seeing as there seems to be grain here, I'd say this is definitely wood - not an uncommon appearance in Lyme Regis and typically attributed to the Monkey Puzzle tree.

[Lsgraham]

Thanks for the superb answer.

[doushantuo]

reminiscent of the wood of cheirolepid conifers

[Advantage]

I`m with the wood crew too.

[Lsgraham]

Thanks I wood n't have known otherwise... :-)