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IDs please! a small shark tooth, a mammalian tooth, and two small pieces of bone/ earbone?
Rowboater posted a topic in Fossil ID
The mammalian tooth has two worn cusps missing points. The small tooth is serrated, the small blade sets up from a thick root on the labial (?) side; when set on a flat surface to scan, the blade sticks in the air like an angel tooth. The lingual(?) side of the blade has a vertical ridge down the center (also like angel shark tooth, but the tooth while small is much bigger than my biggest angel shark tooth. pretty little tooth. Tried placing on edge of a small vertebral "cookie" but didn't scan well. Not sure the two bones have enough left to identify; remind me of whale ear bones but much smaller and thinner. Interesting shapes, both sides.
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I found this vertebra sitting in the creek, washed down I guess. It is 4" long, and roughly 3" wide (at "top" and "bottom") and heavy for its size. Sides look like they may have had "wings" that were clipped off? Two pairs of closely set protuberances in the center of one "face" with almost diagonal depressions on the side. Two pale depressions at one end of the other face, with black depressions to the side above (below?) where the wings attach. Dried for over a week. Used to see a lot of big verts in the creek thirty years ago, this one is the only one I've found recently. Makes a nice paperweight. Anyone with any idea what part of the spine this came from? Thanks for any help! Sides first two photos, protuberance face next, then depression face, the a few held:
