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Perhaps a piece of turtle shell or scute of some kind? :unsure: 

 

Hopefully some of the locals will chime in. 

 

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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. :P

 

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2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Perhaps a piece of turtle shell or scute of some kind? :unsure: 

 

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

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Looks like a turtle/tortoise neural plate.

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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?

 

 

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