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Hi everyone, I am new to this group and hope to bring my love of history and fossils to you. With that said, I hope someone can help me ID this rather small fossilized skull I found today along the James River in Chippoke State Park here in Surry VA. 

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This is referred to as a bonito nose. I think the proper name is mesethmoid bone, from a bonito or similar fish.

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Hello and welcome to the forum!

Cool find!

Best regards,

J

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Welcome to the forum!

-Jay

 

 

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As Al Dente said, bonito nose or snout bone. It's a common fossil in the Yorktown Formation. I have hundreds of them from the now closed Lee Creek mine.

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Thank you so much for the quick reply! Does anyone have a rendering of what this creature would have looked like?

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Yeah. If I’m not mistaken they look like their modern counterparts…

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