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This specimen is from the Neuse river in Eastern NC. The vast majority of fossils from this location are Cretaceous though I do find a bit of Eocene material here. 

 

This one strikes me as fish. I am thinking it may be part of the pectoral girdle or perhaps one of the bones of the skull such as the palatine.

 

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Great ID, Lori  @GeschWhat  -   :dinothumb:

I would agree with fish cleithrum, and likely a Catfish.  

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Excellent, Lori! Good ID! :)

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And the Neuse is slam full of catfish. Flathead, blue, channel and white. Along with yellow and brown bullheads.

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1 hour ago, sixgill pete said:

And the Neuse is slam full of catfish. Flathead, blue, channel and white. Along with yellow and brown bullheads.

 

Agree on the ID. Funny since I have a catfsh skull sitting in my office and still didn't recognize this.

 

Do you think it is modern? 

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2 hours ago, RickNC said:

 

Agree on the ID. Funny since I have a catfsh skull sitting in my office and still didn't recognize this.

 

Do you think it is modern? 

 

 

Could be, but maybe not. Did it come from the spot , you know.  I don't think it is Cretaceous or Eocene. But could be Pleistocene.

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10 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

 

 

Could be, but maybe not. Did it come from the spot , you know.  I don't think it is Cretaceous or Eocene. But could be Pleistocene.

 

Yes. I'm just now getting to that stuff I found earlier this year.

 

Thought I pulled it right out of the same layers the fossils were coming from. It is very light and brittle. 

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13 hours ago, RickNC said:

 

Agree on the ID. Funny since I have a catfsh skull sitting in my office and still didn't recognize this.

 

 

Don't feel bad, Rick. 

It's hard to recognize individual shapes out of context. ;) 

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