JSchaaf Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Multiple top/sides view and 1 photo of the bottom. Almost looks like hair strands on it ? Still a little mud in the front groove things
TNCollector Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 It looks like some kind of igneous rock with those flow patterns, something geological not a fossil.
ynot Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Welcome to the forum! A few questions... How big is it? Where was it found? Is it heavy? Tony PS Looks biologic to Me, not volcanic.
TqB Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 In the last photo, it looks like a bone with some symmetry. I've no idea what from though. Tarquin
JSchaaf Posted August 28, 2015 Author Posted August 28, 2015 It is 1 1/2" long x 1" wides . It is light not heavy and there is most definitely some symmetry in the bottom looks very bone like .
Carl Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 That is exquisite! It definitely looks like fish bone to me. What part? Can't even imagine... What fish??? Who knows.
JSchaaf Posted August 28, 2015 Author Posted August 28, 2015 If it helps...we found this in an area of dredge material where we find Sharks teeth, various vertebrae , LoTS of horse teeth, tapir etc... My daughter kept calling it a "hoof" because it looks like that to an 8 year old
Al Dente Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Pagrus frontal bone. Here is a similar one in Post #1. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/51608-some-kind-of-vertebrae-found-on-beach/ 1
Herb Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 looks like bone to me. Very cool looking. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks
Harry Pristis Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) For comparison: Al Dente has it right: these are fused frontal bones ('noses') of porgies or seabream (NOT of sea robins). Order PERCIFORMES Family SPARIDAE Rafinesque 1810 Hulbert reports four or five different genera of Sparidae from the Plio-Pleistocene of Florida. Edited August 28, 2015 by Harry Pristis http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest
JSchaaf Posted August 28, 2015 Author Posted August 28, 2015 Thanks everyone! Can anyone explain the lines (hair looking) on the bone ? Just curious
Harry Pristis Posted August 28, 2015 Posted August 28, 2015 Thanks everyone! Can anyone explain the lines (hair looking) on the bone ? Just curious The fine lines do not appear to be an erosional phenomenon. The lines appear to be on the outside of the bone, so I might guess them to be a remnant of the exterior covering of the bone in life. I'm not aware of any mineral or opportunistic life-form that would leave traces like those lines, but maybe someone else here is. 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest
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