Rockdude Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Found this suggestively shaped specimen on the beach in Holden Beach NC (North of Myrtle Beach). Sample has been eroded and what I suspect to be bone matrix is clearly visible on the "back" and "top" of the specimen. Have searched the internet to no avail for an ID. Someone else suggested this may be a piece of another bone which happens to have eroded into a tooth shape. Any ideas? Attached pictures (Description of specimen orientation is relative to the first photo): 1. Front view 2. Back view. Note the visible matrix. 3. Top view. Again, visible matrix. 4. Bottom view. A conical shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockdude Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 The scale in the photo is inches by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Eroded bone seems right to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 I agree. Bone. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 I concur. A piece of broken / worn bone. That is the problem with so many beach finds, the tumbling action of the surf is not kind to them at all. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockdude Posted April 28, 2016 Author Share Posted April 28, 2016 Thanks all for the input. I never cease to be amazed by how punishing water can be to fossils and rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 lot of cretaceous dredged up on that beach. could be mosasaur. Did you find any cretaceous echinoids at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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