Mystery Bone ID

[joycea2990]

Hello everyone one, this is my first post on here and I was hoping to try and figure out what this mystery bone is. It was found on the coast of North Carolina near the town of Duck on the ocean side on 12/25/23.

 

This is for sure a modern bone and not a fossil. I am led to believe this piece is from a sea turtle shell, though I am not 100% sure.

The piece itself is roughly 13 cm across, a little over a cm thick, and about 8 cm tall in the middle point.

 

The piece appears to connect to other bone structures from just about every side except for the points of the "wings". If you all have any suggestions as to what this could be that would really help! Thank you!

 

 

[Al Dente]

58 minutes ago, joycea2990 said:

I am led to believe this piece is from a sea turtle shell

I agree.

[joycea2990]

On 12/31/2023 at 10:52 AM, Al Dente said:

I agree.

Any idea as to what kind of bone it could be? I thought it might be from the shell but I'm having a really hard time narrowing it down. 

[Al Dente]

13 hours ago, joycea2990 said:

Any idea as to what kind of bone it could be? I thought it might be from the shell but I'm having a really hard time narrowing it down. 

It might be a suprapygal or a pygal bone. Here is an image from this site- https://www.naturepl.com/stock-photo-loggerhead-sea-turtle-caretta-caretta-skeleton-in-sand-dunes-behind-a-image01536281.html