Some Isle of Wight fossils

[Notidanodon]

Hi guys, I have a few bits and bobs I would really appreciate help with identifying, let me know if you need better photos of anything  thanks for your help

lets start with some Oligocene stuff from Yarmouth,

1. Some kind of skull element, what from though? 

2. This is very weird, it does remind me of a tiny croc scute though

 

3. Some kind of ankle bone?

 

and some from the lower greensand of whale chine, Isle of Wight, it is a coral, but not the usual holycites elegans, a book I read mentions a very rare mushroom shaped coral, like this maybe? So what do you think it’s about 13 cm long

 

[Notidanodon]

Any ideas?

[Mahnmut]

Hi,

number 3 looks to me like an eroded vertebra, but its hard to tell.

I agree that 1 looks like a skull element, but sorry, no further idea.

Best Regards,

J

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Wow! Those are some fossil mysteries. I've got absolutely no idea, but agree with Jan that #3 looks like an eroded vertebra, rather than an astragalus - at least the mammalian ones I'm more familiar with... Number 1 does look like a skull element, and based on the it's highly fibrous nature reminds me of fish. As to #2, I agree that this kind of looks like a crocodile scute, but both has too thick walls between the pits as well as too regular sized and spaced pits. It could, in that case, be turtle, in which I understand these patterns to be more regular. But I'm also wondering whether this really is a fossil, and not something man-made. Can we may be have some photographs from other angles? The bottom and sides?

[Notidanodon]

19 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

Wow! Those are some fossil mysteries. I've got absolutely no idea, but agree with Jan that #3 looks like an eroded vertebra, rather than an astragalus - at least the mammalian ones I'm more familiar with... Number 1 does look like a skull element, and based on the it's highly fibrous nature reminds me of fish. As to #2, I agree that this kind of looks like a crocodile scute, but both has too thick walls between the pits as well as too regular sized and spaced pits. It could, in that case, be turtle, in which I understand these patterns to be more regular. But I'm also wondering whether this really is a fossil, and not something man-made. Can we may be have some photographs from other angles? The bottom and sides?

Thanks for your help, yeah no.2 could me mandmade, I’ll get some more pics tonight