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    Found these a few years ago in a load of stone not Shure what they belong to I was thinking some sort of tail bone ??? Found in Cumberland Co. NJ Click image for larger version

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    Last edited by Hoss; 08-19-2020, 12:46 PM.
    New Jersey

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    Really look like vertebrae.
    SE IA

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    • #3
      Great examples, further up from the tailbones....too bad way back you didn’t find out where they came from , we get that stuff all the time, , and can usually be traced to the fossil beds where they were dug, sometimes the site is available for lookin, ..Makes ya wonder what was left behind...
      Floridaboy.

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      • #4
        Came from the bottom of the Atlantic ocean somewhere I need scuba gear lol
        New Jersey

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        • #5
          For me, finding fossils is as enjoyable as finding points!
          Deb
          Child of the tides

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          • #6
            Good finds. Those are fossil fish vertebrae... almost certainly shark.
            I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

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            • #7
              From my limited experience shark vertebrae are "skinnier" and not so concaved. I have not been wrong today yet so this could be it. I would go with a fish like a tuna or other large similar fish. Below is a fossil tuna vertebrae.



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              • #8
                Originally posted by Planko View Post
                From my limited experience shark vertebrae are "skinnier" and not so concaved. I have not been wrong today yet so this could be it. I would go with a fish like a tuna or other large similar fish.
                Depends on the shark species... they vary enormously, but shark vertebrae are generally the most numerically abundant sizeable fish vertebral fossils. These are shark:

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                But so is this:

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                Fish vertebrae are notoriously difficult to identify, but tuna have a very characteristic shape, seen more clearly here:

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                I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

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                • #9
                  Well best part and worst part is without a good location to help either case, we will probably never know. If you are ever near a museum, or have a paleontology club nearby, take them and see if someone knows. Hands on sometimes is the best way to identify.

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