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Are these fossilized ear bones? I found them at the beach in Northeast Florida.


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Hi, to know if it is fossil or not, you can do the flame test. If it smells it is not fossil.

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The three smaller ones are fragments of hyperostotic fish vertebrae - they frequently fracture in half and are common fossils anywhere in the Carolinas where there are Pliocene fossil beds near the beach (especially Charleston and Myrtle Beach). I look for earbones all the time, and these still trick me!

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