Neat tooth found on the Beach in Okinawa Japan! Need ID...

[onthespot]

Neat tooth found on the Beach in Okinawa Japan! Need ID (Photos Updated)

I found this neat tooth in my scoop while water detecting in Okinawa Japan yesterday. I was neck deep at low tide. Any idea what it could be from?

 

[Talon]

More pictures maybe?

 

[onthespot]

How's that Talon? It's a pretty neat little tooth, It would be nice to know what it's from.

 

[Harry Pristis]

It appears to be a beach-polished fish mouthpart . . . the most robust portion of a crusher toothpart, like these:

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[Dreadnox]

Its is a tooth pad of a stingray of some kind.

 

[Ninjafossils]

Its is a tooth pad of a stingray of some kind.

No. Defenently no. Like harry said, pufferfish mouth piece

 

[GatorBoy]

I just posted a couple a few days ago..scroll down the threads for other examples. Thread title... ("puffer fish jaw plates")

 

[Dreadnox]

Humm, I gess the cutting edge attached to all puffers plates must have broken off. These look like the hundreds of Ray plates I have seen on beaches in Florida around St Pete. Rays have no attached cutting edge plates attached like puffers do. But I could be mistaken I made a mistake back in 1976 and ended up married. LOL

 

[GatorBoy]

We sure do find lots of stingray dental plates here in Florida.. But they look like this.


Most of the puffer fish mouth plates I find don't have the beak like section attached.

 

[onthespot]

Thanks guys!

 

[GatorBoy]

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