Dirtdog Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Found in Bone Valley area of Florida. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you and good luck out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Perhaps a piece of turtle shell or scute of some kind? Hopefully some of the locals will chime in. @Harry Pristis @Sacha @Shellseeker Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Definitely a piece of bone. As @Fossildude19 said, it could be a scute or shell piece. Turtle is possible. It kinda makes me think of a piece of skull of some vertebrate animal. Yet I'm definitely not one of the locals you are waiting for, I'm from the other side of the ocean. Best regards, Max Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Perhaps a piece of turtle shell or scute of some kind? Hopefully some of the locals will chime in. @Harry Pristis @Sacha @Shellseeker Similar to many Bone Valley fossil finds, this a a combo of a large amount of concretion mixed with an attached or embedded fossil. I focus on the up-welling of the fossil portion, and briefly considered gator scute but it lacks the pock marks. I think it may be the edge of a turtle shell with the up-welling being the edge of the shell. I seem to see groves in the shell corresponding some what with the white lines. If there are grove lines in the shell , that would augment the reasons to consider this turtle.. plus, to the concentration of numerous fossil hunters, turtle and dugong dominate the % of fossils in Bone Valley and the Peace River. Most likely turtle but with a low degree of confidence. Shellseeker The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Considered giant tortoise? Looks thick for turtle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Looks like a turtle/tortoise neural plate. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 To me, the fossil does not look thick but actually quite thin. The fossil portion is really only the dark part and the edge of that looks to be very thin indeed--too thin to be useful as a turtle shell. The thicker grainy part of this specimen is attached matrix and has no bearing on the fossil itself. Definitely bone but the thinness seems to preclude anything like turtle/tortoise shell. I'm thinking possibly a flat thin piece of bone which may not be distinctive enough to assign an ID (either species or location). That is, unless it is familiar to someone. My thoughts would be to something like scapula or part of a skull--but what do I know? Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtdog Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 Thanks for the feedback everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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