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I need help identifying a fossil I found about 50 miles east in the Atlantic ocean off the New Jersey coast.

I am a commercial fisherman and found many wooley mammoth teeth,mastodon teeth, walrus tusk and many more.

I looked everywhere for this fossil and can not find anythingh like it.If someone can identify this fossil It would really be

Helpful.Thanks

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Mediospirifer Regular Member

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That's an interesting piece! I have no idea what it is, though--vertebrate bones are cool, but I don't know a lot about identifying them.

There are several people on the Forum who do know verts, and one of them will likely check this post out before too long. Good luck! And welcome to the Forum! :D

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It's definitely the spine of a vertebrae. Could you put something in the pictures for a size comparison?

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I was thinking mor like a beak.You can see the holes on the bottom.

Then there is a hole on the the very tip and on the topside.for breathing

.But you guys are the experts.I'm probably wrong.Im new so trying to find

how to post more pics.

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When you add a new comment, use the "More Reply Option" button to get the full editor. That'll allow you to include more pictures.

It's certainly an interesting piece!

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Well now that i see more angles i shouldn't have used the words "it's definitely a". It's a bone of something, im just not 100% of what. It's not a beak though, sorry.

It could be the tip of a lower mandible of something big. And just to be clear, i am not an expert. Im just trying to help ID this so all of us can gain just a bit more knowledge. Haha

Hopefully Rich or Bobby will take a look.

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~Charlie~

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK
->Get your Mosasaur print
->How to spot a fake Trilobite
->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG

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Auspex Regular Member

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The most I can suggest is that it is from the centerline of the skeleton.

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Seems suggestive of a mandibular symphysis....

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I found this. http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066075

Im more leaning toward mandible.

I really want to ID this thing!

It could be a Sea Turtle mandible. Therefore would be considered a "beak"!

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~Charlie~

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK
->Get your Mosasaur print
->How to spot a fake Trilobite
->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG

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I brightened this image a bit, to better show the two round divots; do these features jog any recognition?

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"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!

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I did see those possible "tooth sockets". But the positioning and size of them look like a Sperm Whale, but then the mandible symphysis doesn't seem long enough to be a Sperm Whale.

I'll bet Bobby can ID this at first glance. Or have a good idea of it's orgin.

~Charlie~

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK
->Get your Mosasaur print
->How to spot a fake Trilobite
->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG

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I didn't see them as tooth sockets, but they are a potentially recognizable feature.

"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!

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It's definitely a vertebrate, but beyond that it is very hard to identify. Could this be part of a pelvic girdle, and the sockets are where the limb bones attached?

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It looks similar to a piece of walrus lower jaw but I'm not too confident with that identification.

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It looks similar to a piece of walrus lower jaw but I'm not too confident with that identification.

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"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!

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This is Al Dente's call; I'm just following his lead.

"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!

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Excellent. :)

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boneheadbob Newbie

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You guys are great.I was thinking turtle beak,but doing some research,not

one looked like this.If its from a walrus that would be awsome.

I have found about seven walrus tusk in the ocean and never was able to keep them

from crumbling apart.But this bone is solid,I really don't need any thing to preserve it.

I'm looking forward to more suggestions.Hopefully you guys can figure this out for me.

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