Dug this in a pasture. Is it a fossil or a bad medical jaw casting?

[Scabby Jack]

 

[creekhunter]

Need something in the pic for scale, its hard to tell how big, etc.

 

[Scabby Jack]

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Might be the latter. WWI and earlier if a section of jaw was removed by bullet or tumor it was possible to "restructure" somewhat. Can't say what you found was for that, or even a cast to use for later making a more permanent fixture . . . but it's a possibility.

If you want to see horror Google: "WWI Jaw Reconstruction".

I don't believe it's a fossil - at least not a jaw fossil. Teeth & bone are different materials and the lower jaw is open.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Possibly fossilized coral? Does it have any texture to it?

 

[mick56]

Did this register on a metal detector? Might be melted blob of aluminum can.

 

[radiobob]

I'd say a vintage plaster cast of a deformed baby Bigfoot track.

 

[Scabby Jack]

It has texture. No detector hit. No Bigfoot sightings in South Jersey. We only have the Jersey Devil.

 

[radiobob]

I've read about the Jersey Devil, and I've been through the Pine Barrens, didn't see him though. I'm kind of a weird stuff buff. But you're mistaken about no Bigfoot sightings in Jersey.

New Jersey Bigfoot Sightings

 

[st1ss]

a blob of plaster?

 

[Scabby Jack]

Now That would be disappointing...LOL