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Sundancer73 and I went to the Santa Fe looking for some good places to dive. In one spot I found these two interesting pieces. Any Idea on what they are? B)B)B):)

Sorry about the pictures I'll try to get better ones later. :blush:

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The 1 image looks like a giant armadillo claw the 2 hmmm...maybe eagle or seal

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Thanks guys, that second pic I am not sure of but after looking at it it sure does look like some kind of claw. Sundancer73 took some pictures of it that maybe better. That is my first armadillo claw core I am :D happy. B)B)B):)

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Are you sure that thing in the 2 image is a fossil?

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Are you sure that thing in the 2 image is a fossil?

edd, I but the bic liter to it and I can't smell anything but if it is a tooth of some kind I don't think that would work either. :unsure:

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The second one does kinda look like a bird talon...where's Auspex?????

Auspex is waiting for a better pic, but thinking "not bird" in the mean time.

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Auspex is waiting for a better pic, but thinking "not bird" in the mean time.

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Good pics; not bird. As alluded in the other thread, maybe a tusk?

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Good pics; not bird. As alluded in the other thread, maybe a tusk?

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It looks to me like an unerupted canine -- the dentin is incomplete. The only thing I can think of with enamel in that pattern is suid or tayassuid.

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I was going to suggest perhaps a tooth from a kogiine sperm whale (which *can* have enamel, in basal taxa), but the tooth looks laterally compressed. It does look to have longitudinal grooves as well as 'growth rings', typical of some sperm whale teeth, and it is narrow and highly curved, but given the apparent presence of enamel and lateral compression, I'll tend to lean towards Harry's ID.

Bobby

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