Chris Anderson Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Here is yet another fossil me and my wife found today in North Myrtle Beach. It looks possibly like some type of body armour maybe off a armadillo but we are not sure. Please help us identify this fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earendil Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 I think it's a crocodile's dermal scute. But I'm no expert. 1 "Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell" -From The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Croc scute 2 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Yup, definitely a crocodile scute. Compare to the below images of the scutes of a neosuchian crocodyliform (cf. Elosuchus cherefiensis) from the Middle Cretaceous Kem Kem in Morocco, and the much smaller scute of an Allognathosuchus sp. from the Eocene of Bouxwiller in France. Glyptodon and Giant Armadillo osteoderms look like those below: Glyptodon sp. at the Zoological and Paleontological Collections of the University of Zürich 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 I'm sold on soft-shelled turtle but am open to being corrected. Either way, it's a nice find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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