Can Anyone Identify This?

diverreb · 27th April 2008, 04:43

I found what I believe is a tooth on the wreck of the Eagle at 105' in the FL Keys last week. It is approximately 3.175cm or 1.25 inches long and very sharp on the bottom. The hole at the top was as I found it and it looks to have a channel of some sort running down the back.

Anyone able to identify from which critter it came from? It could be a bone, but looks more like a tooth of some sort.

Attached are a few different views of the piece.

Richie

Nailer99 · 27th April 2008, 05:04

Underwater Vampires! I knew it was just a matter of time.......

osiris · 27th April 2008, 08:18

Quote: (Originally Posted by diverreb)

I found what I believe is a tooth on the wreck of the Eagle at 105' in the FL Keys last week. It is approximately 3.175cm or 1.25 inches long and very sharp on the bottom. The hole at the top was as I found it and it looks to have a channel of some sort running down the back.

Anyone able to identify from which critter it came from? It could be a bone, but looks more like a tooth of some sort.

Attached are a few different views of the piece.

Richie

If it's not fake, then the channel running it's length could make it a snake fang maybe?

diverreb · 27th April 2008, 13:00

Quote: (Originally Posted by osiris)

If it's not fake, then the channel running it's length could make it a snake fang maybe?

It's not fake, but we don't have Sea Snakes here and I don't believe any land based snakes would be out that far.

Richie

JCdesign97 · 27th April 2008, 14:11

Interesting find Richie ... suuuure, things like this start turning up AFTER I leave!

I find myself wondering how you came across a veritable needle in a haystack of a wreck like the Eagle - Steve must have been absent on that dive, so you were less preoccupied!

As far as what that might be just a wild-ass guess, but maybe a barb from a stingray or some other spiked species? Looks possibly more like that than a tooth ...

**kybrt** · 27th April 2008, 19:21

the hole at the top makes me think it was lost/planted at the site, like fell off a divers necklace.

barney · 27th April 2008, 19:41

Its not a stingray spine, as those are serrated. It looks to be a dorsal spine of a fish - not sure of species.

***diverklondike*** · 27th April 2008, 19:56

Quote: (Originally Posted by barney)

Its not a stingray spine, as those are serrated. It looks to be a dorsal spine of a fish - not sure of species.

net net.... Fish Bones....

barney · 27th April 2008, 21:02

Quote: (Originally Posted by diverklondike)

net net.... Fish Bones....

sea_ledford · 27th April 2008, 21:26

Hard to tell without feeling it, but it looks like a bird bone to me. Is it really light? Like lighter than it should be for it's size? Birds have honeycomb-like bones to keep them light but strong. The two indentations at the top show that it articulates with two other bones, one on each side... so a rib would be my guess. And the hole at the top does look like it was drilled.

But I'm not a bird guy, so I might be full of S#*T

Chris

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