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TimInDC

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This was also found on the beach on the north end of Amelia Island, Florida USA.

 

i have no idea what it could be.

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Welcome to the Forum. :)

 

Pufferfish or Burrfish mouth plate. 

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The mouthpieces from pufferfish/burrfish are very distinctive (once you have seen one) which is why you got your answer so quickly and definitively. The upper and lower jaw plates for these fishes have a hardened palette and a row up tiny stacked teeth along the curved edge that are continuously replaced. Because they are very solid they fossilize well and are found with reasonable frequency alongside shark teeth, ray teeth and other marine fossils on the beaches and rivers of Florida. Here's what the previous owner of these chompers might have looked like:

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

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