What Is It?

[Kkoz]

Hi,

Found this last year on St. John's island in the U.S Virgin Islands. it was inside of the attached conch shell, which was half buried in mud/clay about 200 yards from the beach in an area many artifacts of early people have been found. They were pottery and tools 4000-6000 years old i believe. It looks like some kind of tooth and is about 1.5 inches long. It broke a few times and i fixed it. I found the conch and kept it and it was full of hardened mud, when i cleaned it out about 3 of these came out, but unfortunately 2 went down the drain.

[Fossildude19]

Looks like a fish spine.

Regards,

EDIT:

I took the liberty of brightening the photo of the entire specimen.

Maybe some others will weigh in, but I think it is a fish spine.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Fossildude19