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Is it Eocene fish vertebrae ?

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drbush Regular Member

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Hi friends, I went to Rusformation area (Eocene) to the west of Riyadh city and found this  small fossil , 20mm long by18mm What could it be? it looks like a vertebrae os a skull ????

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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Looks more like a bit of skull to me.  :unsure:  

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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It looks like it could be the end of a fish spine, nothing definite.

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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4 hours ago, drbush said:

skull of whate ?

Fish, but I think Ancient Bones has a better ID.

Fish spine end.

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hemipristis Regular Member

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agree w/ fin spine

 

 

 

 

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