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At least one of these is a tooth? Right ?


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@Plantguy I think you are right about the ray tooth! The roundness threw me because I see tons of those and i didn't even recognize it until i was looking at it again earlier, it looks like a ray tooth turned pebble stone.. I'm going to keep looking and see if I can spot some more pieces similar to the brown bone, it really doesn't look like anything else I've seen, but new stuff seems to pop up everyday ;) I also have a bunch of other ones I need to look closer at, some are tan as well. I'm going to have to google what the whole plate would look like, I think I have one somewhere(it was given to me by someone). Also, I need to bug you with a unrelated question if you don't mind since you are so knowledgeable about the area! I'll message you if that's okay 

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Thanks @ynot :D but I live in Florida lol ;) I was hoping to find something other than shark!! Isn't it like a right of passage over here?! I was looking over what I had and I also found the broken one and that thing on the bottom right was in the pile I don't remember picking it up maybe my husband did- but I'm guessing not a tooth. Thanks for the ID

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They all look like teeth (shark), but the bottom right is in real bad shape.

 

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1 hour ago, tmaier said:

The item on the lower right looks like a chunk of bone.
 

Take a closer look at the right side of it. Appears to be remnants of enamel with a cutting edge.

Just My opinion.

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" Take a closer look at the right side of it. Appears to be remnants of enamel with a cutting edge."

Doh! I think you are right. I've found chunks of teeth in that condition.

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Reading now Chris's post, I agree, the first one looks to be a very worn ray mouth plate, maybe Myliobatis sp. .

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4 hours ago, tmaier said:

" Take a closer look at the right side of it. Appears to be remnants of enamel with a cutting edge."

Doh! I think you are right. I've found chunks of teeth in that condition.

@ynot is right, I looked at it again after I posted and the enamel is actually in that tiny spot on both sides. It's a pity it isn't in better shape it's thr biggest one I have :( so now that I have a confirmed tooth in that shape is it too far fetched that the brown one could be a tooth?? My initial thought when I picked it up was that it looked like an alligator or crocodile tooth... but I'm probably wrong.. and thanks @abyssunder! Two down one to go! 

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7 hours ago, ynot said:

I do not see anything to make Me think the "brown" one is a tooth.

I agree that it looks like a phosphate nodule.

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I agree with that.

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I am voting with Plantguy on the first one being part of a very worn ray tooth.  That was my first thought after seeing the very first photo based on the apparent ridges.   

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On 22 novembre 2016 at 8:38 PM, FossilDAWG said:

I think the shell might be a barnacle plate.  The other two may be highly worn bone, or a broken phosphate nodule.

 

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On 22 novembre 2016 at 6:07 PM, fifbrindacier said:

@tmaier and @Vieira, i remember the shell you're speaking, but its name escapes me also. It has a valve very much bigger than the other and used it to fix itself on the soil, the rocks and some of them had spines to grab on another individual.

What i first thought of is richtofenia, an animal of the family of brachiopods. But that's not that at all and i must agree with @FossilDAWG's ID of barnacle plate.

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