crz2uf Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Hello, i have this piece of bone which was excavated by a friend of mine and it somewhat looks like a piece of spine. But theres something unsual its that below, its got some sort of fine bones stuck together.any ideas what this is? http://attachment.fbsbx.com/messaging_attachment.php?aid=81ee2df64312973b887ed8c35919aef3&mid=id.243874572396732&uid=1189423924&accid=1189423924&ext=1341044352&hash=AQBat51T5ZS4zM3wGDYhPiGtFl_eJXoAz1crL2Pj4wbp5Q http://attachment.fbsbx.com/messaging_attachment.php?aid=f8e30cf2fde9b3132377b849ce6062c1&mid=id.243874572396732&uid=1189423924&accid=1189423924&ext=1341044093&hash=AQBjFDHpuY05W1D3KpJjhQzRp1it57DPk7PjBDLF9VXWqw http://attachment.fbsbx.com/messaging_attachment.php?aid=b2915d6d98e09b231743ca7f901b0003&mid=id.243874572396732&uid=1189423924&accid=1189423924&ext=1341044918&hash=AQDxAq08PhQHgSWj2Psa9nY3KZAusa36SBZN_Tdej3n9ig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Harry Pristis Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 "The web page can not be found" Post the images directly to this forum. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyWahine Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 None of your attachments showing anything. Only blank white page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncoat Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Hey crz2uf, your attachments are not loading for me.. Maybe try posting them in your post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primativesloth Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Same for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Coco Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Hi, I think that it is a fish dental palate, but it has a strange shape. I have never seen that before. Don't forget to put the size and the origin, as well as the age if you know it. That helps to identify. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Yes, certainly a dental "crusher plate" from a fish; what kind I do not know. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 What's the location? " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharks of SC Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Somewhere in the Philippines, I'm guessing. That's amazing preservation for a fossil, I wonder if it may not be more recent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 (edited) I suspect it’s from a parrotfish (Scaridae family), of which there are 80 or so species in 10 genera with a fossil record extending from the Eocene. The non-fossil pic below is the Double-Headed Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) or ‘Bumphead’, which is the largest species at 4 feet plus. Most species are no bigger than 20 inches. [image from Alan Hoeneisen’s ‘Bebinka’ website] Parrotfish are principally algal coral-reef feeders but will eat sea grass if it’s available. The front teeth are normally coalesced into a pair of strong beak-like plates with a characteristic central dividing groove and in most species these are used for rasping algae from the coral. There are a few larger species like B. muricatum where these teeth are also used for nibbling away at the coral itself and these species have large ‘molar-like’ pharyngeal dental plates for grinding (bottom centre in the above pic). I believe that’s what we have here – from one of the larger species. I would think it probably is fossilised but not tremendously old. Bolbometopon is certainly reported from the Indo-Pacific Upper Miocene (Smith, 1956), but normally only as plate fragments. If fossilised, that’s a really nice specimen with excellent preservation. Edited July 6, 2012 by painshill Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 That is really cool looking! "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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