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Found this behind my house in middle Tennessee wondering if you could tell me the name of it and how old..i have found lots of fossils but this is pro...
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Asked November 22, 2018, 8:51 PM EST
Found this behind my house in middle Tennessee wondering if you could tell me the name of it and how old..i have found lots of fossils but this is probably the best
Perry County Tennessee
Expert Response
I am not a fossil expert, however, the outline of the fossil looks very similar to a creature called a sea scorpion. Sea scorpions inhabited the shallow waters flooding Tennessee 450 million years ago.
