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Fish/Reptile Skull Fragment?


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Collected from Galveston bay dredge spoils, late Pleistocene Beaumont formation.  First thought was gar skull fragment but it lacks the central suture line evident in online photos.  Hoping someone here might recognize it. 

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Can we see a pic straight on of both the side and the snout to the back? Profiles can be helpful. 

I think it looks like a sturgeon, but I don’t see the skull sutures for that either.

Maybe @Uncle Siphuncle or @Harry Pristis would have some insight.

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I’ll post some shots of the profile tomorrow.  

Not sure sturgeon were ever this far south?

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*1 for Sea Robin skull. 

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Nice.  Rare in TX.

Grüße,

Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas

"To the motivated go the spoils."

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5 hours ago, Uncle Siphuncle said:

Nice.  Rare in TX.

First I've come across but curious why they would be rare given the habitat of at least one Texas species "...inshore waters, bays and salt marshes."

https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishing/sea-center-texas/flora-fauna-guide/gulf-waters/animals-of-the-gulf-waters/bighead-sea-robin

 

Perhaps marine transgression across the shallow shelf of the Texas coast.

 

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