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Took our first trip to Big Brook Preserve in NJ. Great day finding small shark teeth  and inkpens.

 

Came across this bone. My first thought is that it is a modern day vertebrate, even thought it looks like a face lol. It is light in weight as well. It looks to have matrix attactined it some areas, but it may just be clay from the stream bed. Any input would be helpful.

 

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The Jersey Devil Regular Member

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It's a modern skull bone, probably from a rodent.

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I agree - looks more like a sacrum. Maybe squirrel? 

Can we get a picture of the other side?

 

 

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2 hours ago, josephstrizhak said:

It's a modern skull bone, probably from a rodent.

 

Yeah, it's probably actually a sacrum from a small modern rodent and not a skull bone.

“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.” ― Mikhail Tal

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