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Hi i I was wondering if anyone knew what these 3 fossils are, Thanks!!.

 

Vertebra? Bois Blanc Formation (Devonian)

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Unknown McCoy Brook Formation Nova Scotia (Triassic) perhaps spines of some sort?.

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Coral? Bois Blanc Formation (Devonian)

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Your first photos are too small and blurry to make out any detail. 

 

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I’ll try to get better ones but it’s so small it’s hard to get a good photo.

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The best I can take I’ll try to take better ones tomorrow in the light.

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It almost looks like a shark vertebrae, but still a little hard to see, maybe a measurement will help a little bit.

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I will get better photos of the second specimen tomorrow.

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@Kane have you seen anything like my vertebra above in the Bois Blanc Formation?

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You would not likely find vertebrae in the Bois Blanc. The only vertebrates would be placoderms, but those will generally only preserve their plates. Until a clearer picture is taken, I would hazard to guess that it is coral. I have not heard of placoderm material found in this formation, but certainly abundant coral and brachiopods (the heavy brach layer is a good stratigraphic index if it underlies the coral-crinoid layer, which distinguishes the Edgecliff Member).

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Thanks Kane, I’ll get some better photos tonight, my phone camera doesn’t work the best with small objects, so It will be tricky. 

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56 minutes ago, Kane said:

You would not likely find vertebrae in the Bois Blanc. The only vertebrates would be placoderms, but those will generally only preserve their plates. Until a clearer picture is taken, I would hazard to guess that it is coral. I have not heard of placoderm material found in this formation, but certainly abundant coral and brachiopods (the heavy brach layer is a good stratigraphic index if it underlies the coral-crinoid layer, which distinguishes the Edgecliff Member).

I can see this as a coral, just a little blurry, is it smooth on the circular parts of it?

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The fish that occurred at the time and environment in which the Bois Blanc formation was deposited were primitive sharks and placoderms.  These fish had cartilaginous skeletons, and ossified vertebrae have not been described from Devonian marine deposits.  It is misleading (not intentionally so, BTW) to compare Cretaceous and Cenozoic sharks to Devonian sharks, or Carboniferous sharks as well, for that matter.

 

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10 minutes ago, DinoHunter1105 said:

I would have to say that the vertebrae is in the fish/shark family, cant put it on a specific species though.

Placoderm vertebrae have an unusual shape, and are composed of thin, perichondral bones. One determinant would be arch bases in the synarcual.

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2 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

 These fish had cartilaginous skeletons, and ossified vertebrae have not been described from Devonian marine deposits.  

 

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Sometimes there is a bit of luck, such as finding some fused vertebrae from  big Devonian “Dunky”: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2488-dunkleosteus-vertebral-fusion

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56 minutes ago, DinoHunter1105 said:

I can see this as a coral, just a little blurry, is it smooth on the circular parts of it?

Yes the holes are smooth but the rest is kind of bumpy, but most of it’s smooth just a few little bumps but that’s it.

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No problem.  We all make suggestions based on what is familiar to us.  That is one of the things I really like about the Forum, we all bring our own experience to the table and we all have the opportunity to learn new things every day.

 

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