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Looks like part of a skull, can you see any tooth sockets?

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Steve can you get a pic of the other side

I am thinking alligator.

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Guest Smilodon
find these while looking for shark teeth.some kind of face almost like alligator?

Kinda looks like sturgeon plate but if you want a real answer. WHERE DID YOU FIND IT?

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I redact my original guess. From this side it looks like turtle scute.

I may not play again - photos are almost always too hard to make educated id's

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I redact my original guess. From this side it looks like turtle scute.

I may not play again - photos are almost always too hard to make educated id's

nope we find many turtle pieces but this is a face

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i think it is the top of the skull to an alligator gar, lepisostius. see link

gar skull

brock

I agree with Brock -- alligator garfish (Lepisosteus spatula). The short, spatulate beak is diagnostic. We don't get those in Peninsular Florida.

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

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Well, I was going to say that Brock and Harry were close, but I think mako-mamma nailed hooked it!

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Well, I was going to say that Brock and Harry were close, but I think mako-mamma nailed hooked it!

Maybe. We do get lot of Prionotus fossils here in Florida. I even encountered a living specimen in the Peace River. The rostrals are all about one inch long, like the ones you can see on Elasmo.com.

I'm at a loss for scale in the original image, Steve. What is the length of these rostral bones in the first image??

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

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Maybe. We do get lot of Prionotus fossils here in Florida. I even encountered a living specimen in the Peace River. The rostrals are all about one inch long, like the ones you can see on Elasmo.com.

I'm at a loss for scale in the original image, Steve. What is the length of these rostral bones in the first image??

1/2 in

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