beach_hunter Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Here are a few different pieces I picked up near Santa Cruz, hoping to learn a bit more from everyone here and get some help with ID's. My guess was a smaller marine mammal, maybe a pinniped rib? Link to post Share on other sites
beach_hunter Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 This one I thought maybe a vertebrae? Link to post Share on other sites
beach_hunter Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 This one has me completely puzzled! Link to post Share on other sites
jpc Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 These look to me to be unidentifiable, but then I am not a marine mammal guy. Link to post Share on other sites
beach_hunter Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Given the wealth of knowledge of the great minds on this forum, I would wager that nothing is unidentifiable To help the cause, here are a few more angles of what I think looks like a vertebrae: Link to post Share on other sites
Boesse Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 The first one is a waterworn rib fragment; the second one is a chunk of a baleen whale mandible, the hole in it that is filled with rocky matrix is the foramen for the mandibular artery; the last one is a really large fish bone, based on texture - I'm not certain of the element. Link to post Share on other sites
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