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[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

What you have is the posterior portion of a fish mandible, known as the articular.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

My background is in zooarchaeology, so I've spent a lot of time identifying and analyzing bones from archaeological sites. (Although I'm not good with fish and reptiles. Mostly mammals and birds where I'm at.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You can tell by the pixels

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks! 😍

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There were a lot of cuttlebones, this doesn't look like another just randomly cut, I don't know

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry that was my best guess, either broken or eaten cuttlebone. But if it doesn't look like the others then it's probably from another type of sea creature, someone else is bound to know more (E: looks like someone does!)..

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It’s a fish bone, but not sure what species or part of the skeleton. I’ve seen many on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Fairly certain it a human hand with what appears to be a blackish paint of some kind on fingernails.

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