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BeachComber7

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I researched the inserted fossil picture and cannot find a match on line. I am probably not using the correct terminology.
One part seems to be a vertebrae of some kind, then there is the bony growth on the outside that encompasses the circle. There is a hole where the outside encloses the circle item. This was found at the beach, probably in a meager shell pile. I thought initially a tooth, then a part of a drum fish and now, I have no idea!

Any thoughts as to what it can be?
 

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That looks like a fossil vertbrea. Cool find. :icon_thumleft:
 

Great find. & Harry you are amazing! How do you have so much info?
 

Ahh turns out after doing some reading on line, they are supposedly very common here in Florida, but this is the first one I have found. It seems to be from the Miocene Epoch to Pleistocene period and since my other stuff is from Pleistocene, it must be the same. It is from a saltwater fish, an 'abnormality' in the bone growth. Thanks Harry!!
 

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