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Post by broseph82 on Jan 20, 2015 19:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 20, 2015 19:44:15 GMT -5
Looks like some kind of fungus (mushroom).
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 20, 2015 21:06:23 GMT -5
Yes,looks like mushrooms to me too......
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 20, 2015 21:08:14 GMT -5
Looks like some kind of fungus (mushroom). Nope. This was bone. And those are teeth. But of what?
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 20, 2015 21:11:51 GMT -5
Really!!!!!!! That guy better see the dentist!!!! LOL
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 21:51:38 GMT -5
That would be a sturgeons upper or lower jaw. Mystery solved Dave
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 20, 2015 22:20:02 GMT -5
Hmmm. Fish yes but I was thinking maybe a drum or drum relative. Ummm sturgeon have no teeth...Mel
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 22:35:27 GMT -5
Sheep's head?? They eat crustaceans and need to grind em up
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 22:45:02 GMT -5
Gotta go with Mel.i jumped the gun,after googling i recant my statement Dave
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 20, 2015 23:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 20, 2015 23:30:10 GMT -5
If it were fossilized, I'd say it was Mylocheilus Robustus. A distant relative to the modern carp. They had teeth designed to grind up hard shelled food.
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 21, 2015 9:20:21 GMT -5
Incredible. You guys rock! jakesrocks this was "fresh" and not fossilized
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 21, 2015 11:00:15 GMT -5
jakesrocks this was "fresh" and not fossilized
That's why I said " If it were fossilized "
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 21, 2015 20:09:03 GMT -5
jakesrocks this was "fresh" and not fossilized That's why I said " If it were fossilized " Gotcha thanks
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Post by gingerkid on Jan 25, 2015 9:00:23 GMT -5
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Post by Peruano on Jan 25, 2015 18:16:39 GMT -5
I've got one of the same that sat on my desk for 20 years. Mine I recall was picked up on a beach off Galveston and I always told folks that it was a drum. Species not specified, but they are teeth and used for crushing things like crustaceans and molluscs. Clean it up and dazzle folks for decades. Tom
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Post by Pat on Jan 25, 2015 20:55:53 GMT -5
What?!! Those aren't mini-marshmallows on pecan pie??!!!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 26, 2015 18:47:58 GMT -5
Fresh water drum common in Alabama. Sheepshead front teeth look like a man's.
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Post by Peruano on Jan 27, 2015 8:55:00 GMT -5
Something in the fringes of my brain says these are pharyngeal teeth (i.e. way back and not the maxillary, or mandibular teeth that we have or easily see in most fishes. Imagine having these dentures back where your tonsils are and you get the picture. Now chuck a big shell or crab back there and crunch down all while underwater. Gives you new respect for being a fish, huh? Tom
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Post by gingerkid on Jan 27, 2015 11:56:08 GMT -5
ROFL, Peruano! I read the ones found off the Georgia coast are quite talented at stealing bait off of your hook, and are often called "convicts" and "7-striped jettys." Fresh water drum common in Alabama. Sheepshead front teeth look like a man's. They are found near the "Savannah River mouth, the St. Marys River entrance and Tybee Island" (out there swimming with the *lost* atomic bomb, ahem).
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