✅ SOLVED snake? tiny gar? some other creature?

[Older The Better]

found on the top of a bluff near a river in Kansas. i thought snake but every snake jaw i found seemed to have much more of a curve, it looks like maybe a gar but it is very small only a couple inches long. anybody know what animal this came from?

 

[TomPA]

You might be on the right track with a freshwater gar. Maybe a baby got scooped up by a bird of prey, and then the jaw was discarded. I'm not sure how fast the teeth form, but maybe a little one like this would still have some of the tiny ones, but with some larger ones showing as in your example. Just surmising.

 

[old digger]

I agree, looks like a juvenile gar jaw specimen.

 

[diggummup]

I concur.

 

[ARC]

I concur.

I concur the concur.

 

[owlcreek]

Needle nose gar.
Also known as long nose.

 

[bologna321]

I concur the concur.

concur^3

 

[jewelerguy]

I concur.

I concur the concur.

concur^3

I concur with the concurers

 

[Peyton Manning]

no snake has a jaw like that

 

[A2coins]

could be a snake gar a SNAR

 

[Older The Better]

yeah i thought it just looked kind of wrong for a snake, too straight or something. i thought maybe gar but i was hung up on how it ended up on top of a bluff. its a native American site where i find a lot of burned bone and bone from all kinds of animas from buffalo to mice as well as mussel shells, pottery, and stone tools. my mind was stuck on the fact that a gar that small couldn't possibly be worth eating and i wasn't thinking a non human explanation. i know some bones have ended up there by other means and a bird is very plausible scenario.
plus confirming or "concurring" that it is a gar makes an interesting addition to the site