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I haven't been into fossils since I was a child, and I haven't had a good vertebrate zoology class since college. When I found this on a dredge spoil island while on an afternoon boat cruise I knew it was a vertebra, but that's about it. It's heavy like rock. I did a bunch of googling for all the most common things I could think of (Horse, Cow, Whale, Dolphin, Turtle) then I actually started to think it might be a fossil, particularly because the shape of the vert body didn't look like any of the things I was looking at. After a bunch of searching about the concavity/convexity of the articulating surfaces I think it's the vertebral body of a large reptile but with all the interesting processes broken off. So I looked for images of alligator, crocodile etc and I couldn't find anything with such a pronounced concavity/convexity relative to the width/height. Could this be a legit cool dinosaur fossil? Any Ideas? Location: North Carolina, Cape Fear river https://goo.gl/maps/EvB3g9456b82 Here is an animated gif from a bunch of angles, it's big (about 13mb) https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbablfmz9h82rbn/vertebra_all_angles.gif
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