Mystery Object
Do you know what animal this is from and what it is?
Accession Number: ZR:10:1
Diameter: 6 cm (2 3/8 inches)
Thickness: 2 cm (13/16 inches)
Found: Mississippi River
Hint: It's a sort of bone...
Diameter: 6 cm (2 3/8 inches)
Thickness: 2 cm (13/16 inches)
Found: Mississippi River
Hint: It's a sort of bone...
Outer surface (left) and opposite side (right).
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I belive it is the prized outer shell of the frisbee beast that went extinct in the early 70's after heavy harvesting by hippies for their frisbee games
i think the picture is a diatom.
i believe it is something really off track like a jelly fish lol
Tooth (molar) from an animal.
A Tooth from an animal
this is a great thing 2 bring up
It looks like some kind of prehistoric herbivore dinasaur's molar. Or a random jellyfish.
i think its a jawbone.
I think the object is a back molar from a mammal that doesn't eat meat. the animal would be any where from 800 - 1500 pounds.
WHAT IS THE PICTURE?? I THINK IT IS A TOASTER FROM THE ICE AGE. OR THE SEVENTIES. EITHER ONE. CLEARLY I AM SMARTER THAN ALL OF YOU. SO HA! IT'S THE ONLY LOGICAL ANSWER. DWEEBS!
I SHALL SIGN OFF NOW
THE LOOP/MUSHROOM
this picture is obviously a cap off of a dinsosar's tooth. oh yes they had great dentistry back then. the medicaid wasn't too good, but it has picked up a little since then.
that is definitely a tooth from a carnivorous animal
clam shell.
a patella
I think it's a mammoth tooth.
The vertebrae of an icthyosaur.
I think it is a highly magnified bit of pollen.
We think this is a crock's tooth!? a back tooth?
It is an otolith, a fish earbone
A Diatom
It's a diatom.
Possibly a Branchiopod.
i think it is the shell of a horse shoe crab!!!!!
I believe that the two pictures are actually the "throat stones" of a freshwater drum or sheepshead fish. They are used to grind up small mollusks which are one of their favorite foods.
they are not throat stones they are back inside the fishes head behind their eyes..they are otoliths (earbones)...they are from balance/ equilibrium
It looks like the bones from the head of a sheephead fish [fresh water drum]
I think its the fossile of a preastoric jelly fish.
This is an ear bone from inside the head of a fish....fresh water drum, sheepshead, whatever you want to call them.....we call them J-stones, or freshwater pearls....my dad is a commercial fisher man and i've been collecting them since i was a little girl....if you open up the fishes head there will be 2 of these inside. they are called otoliths (earbones), i think they have something to do with the fishes balance too.
I think these are rocks from inside the head of a sheephead.
This is definitively a picture of a jellyfish skull!
I am a giant turtle monkey
Phear me ^_^
They are the head bones from a freshwater Drum. Located behind eyes for balance
I think it is a clam shell.
This is what we call a luckey stone taken from the gill area in a fresh water drum. "Sheep head"
I carried several in my pocket when I was about 10 years old and lived by lake Erie in Ohio
Mel
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I think it is a piece of ambergres from a sperm whale.
i think it's a tooth
i think that it is a tooth from an animal.
Ther are fascinating things. I like it. It is fun. It is cool.
hmmm.... clearly not a tooth much too bumpy jellyfish dont have bones were you listening when we learned that in like third grade...it looks like a something from a bird think about how small it is.... or maybe not...?
This is a picture of the silica shell of a diatom.
cool animal
This is my science teachers e-mail address. I have already sent in a guess but I forgot to put my name . I think this image is cartilage
i think its a jelly fish
I agre with you ,But I think that it is a Jellyfish skull
tooth
i think its some kind of finger or piece of the spine in early animals!!
its not a tooth and why would it be a jelly fish thats weird i think its a cantainer for lotion
i think it is a dog bone.
This is an ear bone from inside the head of a fish....fresh water drum, sheepshead, whatever you want to call them.....we call them J-stones, or freshwater pearls....my dad is a commercial fisher man and i've been collecting them since i was a little boy....if you open up the fishes head there will be 2 of these inside. they are called otoliths (earbones), i think they have something to do with the fishes balance too.
This is an ear bone of a freshwater drum (sheephead). Called a lucky stone. I have one made into a pendent that I wear on a chain. Collected them on the beach in Michigan as a child.
cool ...
...weird
teeth, or the small bones in the spine of a fish.
Its a lucky stone from a sheephead!
We look for them along the sandbar and beaches.
Stones behind a Sheephead fish
It could be slim covering a sheep fish skull.
These are definitely lucky stones from inside the skull of a sheepshead also called a freshwater drum.
Without a doubt, these are from a very large sheepshead caught in the Mississippi River.
It is a lucky stone from a Lake Erie fish known as freshwater drum or sheephead. The lucky stone is really the inner ear bones of the fish. Legend has it that the American Indians collected them for luck!
Maybe it's a fossilized clam?
I think it was a jelly fish, or a shell from one of those thingys. like from pokemon. that really rare sea animal that we dont have anymore today. or we do...i think like the one that killed steave the crocadial hunter. its maybe a shell of one of those animals. well, thats what i think....
Its a otolith from a teleost fish. Looking to the form of the sulcus acusticus, the ostium and the head, I can say its from the Family Sciaenidae, and I my guess is from a genus Umbrina, maybe Umbrina coroides or Umbrina canosai...
Sorry, i dont know how to put italics in the specie's name.
Cheers.
I think this is from a Sheepshead fish. They have a small stone in their heads.
Heather
It's an otolith from a black drum, pagonias cromis.
fossilized anemone ;P
wow i havent seen those for years.I grew up in illinois on the Rock River,and caught sheephead all the time,collecting the stones.I have tried to describe them to others but yeah,that never works.
a jellyfish?
It a dinoflagellate
This is from the head of the sheephead fish, also known as the lords fingernail.
We call them "head beans" from the inside of the Sheephead's head.
its the teeth of an extint animal
Meeo Kings
Called JC Stones, Jesus Christ Stones, the lords stones, anything, like the many people have already said from the Sheepshead behind the eyes NOT A JELLYFISH, BIRD, PREHISTORIC FISH, TOOTH, ANIMAL BONE
sheephead stones
I think it is a sheepshead stone
I actually have one of these from back in the 80's when I went out to Oklahoma and we went fishing. One of my relatives caught a drum fish and this was cut out from behind the eye of the fish. I was told it was a stone. I would be interested in hearing more about this. I would like to know, is this actually a stone or is it a calcium deposit?
A fish scale -
I think it is part of the Sheephead's eye.
That is an otolith or Lucky Stone from a sheepshead or fresh water drum from Lake Erie. They come from both sides of the fish so one side has the L shape on it and the other has a J shape. L for love and J for joy. The mythology is that when you find them, you give them to another for whom you wish these things, love and joy, and they in turn can also share the wish with others. That is recent though. The older mythology is a fishing one. These stones were tied to various places along net lines and were thought to be good luck for a good catch. In 06-07 the fresh water drum experienced a massive kill. The stones were easier to find on beaches. Usually a body can find one or two on a heavily traveled stretch of beach. In a secluded beach with more debris, maybe 5-10. But last year a body could find 50 in secluded areas due to the kill. I've looked for them for more than 30 years growing up on the Erie coast. Some say the bone is from behind the eye and some say the ear. I have not found a definitive source on that yet.
Other lucky stones from other places are stones with lines that go straight through them, but these are bones and are special. So there. :-D
These fish can also be found very commonly around lake Champlain
New York. =D
Your correct answer brought back so many memories of my fishing in the Sandusky River in Ohio near Lake Erie; we collected the lucky stones but truthfully sheepshead to us were poor fighters on the line and too bony to eat. I am presently writing a book and one of the chapters states that they were so plentiful that they seemed to stick to the canoes of early travelers.
Thanks for info. Peace, Corky
W/O a doubt....stones from a Sheepshead fish (I collect them)
easy stone out of a sheepshead fish i'm only 8
but i like fishing cut it's head open and you will see
It was the failed prototype of the ipod's earphone...
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