Few finds at big brook nj today

[southjerseyfossil]

Hey Guys needed a little help with few things I found today. I'm assuming shark or fish vert in the one pic. I'm most interested in the small...... im guessing bone not sure if its an older rodent bone or what. Funny I found a deer tooth today while sifting kinda freaked me out looked like a human tooth white. Thanks

[southjerseyfossil]

[southjerseyfossil]

Hopefully it worked this time thanks

[Heteromorph]

45 minutes ago, southjerseyfossil said:

Hopefully it worked this time thanks

It worked! I can’t help, but hopefully others can. 

[southjerseyfossil]

ok thanks

 

[ynot]

I can not help with the toe bone other than it is racoon sized, too big for a rat.

The vert does look sharkish, but better pictures and a side view may change that opinion.

The other 2 look to fragmented to tell, but the longer one looks like a burrow cast. (again better pictures from multiple angles may change that opinion.)

[southjerseyfossil]

[ynot]

Thanks for the better pictures.

I still think it is a shark vert. Should wait for others to comment though.

 

It will help improve Your pictures if You place the item on a solid surface rather than holding it.

[southjerseyfossil]

ok thanks for your help

 

[ynot]

1 minute ago, southjerseyfossil said:

ok thanks for your help

 

Your welcome.

Also, that is a nice toe bone, maybe @Harry Pristis can help identify it.

Good luck on the hunt.

[KimTexan]

You may find this helpful when trying to determine what type of animal a vertebra came from. It is lecture notes from a class on comparison of vertebrate skeletal anatomy. There is quite a bit more than what is shown here and well worth the read for comparison of skeletal bones from different types of vertebrates. 

 

This part breaks it down into 3 different types of fish, like sharks vs chondrosteans (sturgeons) vs the teleosts (e.g. bass, cod, salmon), the most dominate type of fish in oceans since Cretaceous times.

 

Pics taken from here:

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/342notes2.htm

[Al Dente]

The second photo is a tooth plate from Anomoeodus.

[southjerseyfossil]

thanks for the help

[The Jersey Devil]

In the third picture, from left to right, you have: a modern rodent bone, shark vertebra, Anomoeodus phaseolus medial tooth, and a concretion/stone.

[southjerseyfossil]

thank you