What did we find?? Teeth!!

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  1. Bcamos

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    My daughter found these today. Any idea what they’re from? I’ve done my own research and I want to get opinions before I tell you guys where we found them.

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    No idea, but the one on the right is cool!
     
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    Big cat.

    What’s my prize and where do I claim it? :p
     
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    Ancient Golf Tee(th) on the right! I'll take half of Bushman5r's prize for figuring out what the cat tooth was used for thank you in advance!
     
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    The one on the right looks more like a claw to me, but I'm no archeologist lol
     
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    I'll give you guys a hint. I'm about 99% positive of what both of them are, but the one on the left technically shouldn't have been in this part of the world. They're both from the water. One salt, one fresh.
     
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    Croc????
     
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    I think they both could be from muskellunge or pike
     
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    Or alligator gar
     
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    Chupacabra teeth from when they still lived in the water.
     
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    I didn't realize my mother in law was dropping teeth.
     
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    My more pressing question is where you found that micarta scale for your hest folder
     
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    These were found in Port Lavaca, Texas. Really shallow salt water.

    I messaged the Texas State Aquarium and they told me that these are most likely fish vertebrae, but they did say that it's really hard to identify based on pictures.

    However, from my own research, I'm almost 100% positive that that large "tooth" came from the snout of a Sawfish/Sawshark. I've seen pictures online that are almost identical. The only backbone/vertebrae that I could even get a close match was the spinal barb of a Triggerfish. Though I can't find an image of one by itself outside of the skeleton. Sawfish/Sawsharks and Triggerfish are both known natives of the Gulf, so I guess either option is plausible.

    The stumpy little thing on the left, I really couldn't put my finger on. The only fish teeth that I could find that are similar (bulbous and extremely pointy) are on the Goliath Tigerfish. But they're a freshwater fish native to the Congo.

    The reason I'm not buying the "backbone/vertebrae" assumption is because these both have obvious roots that aren't rounded like you'd expect spinal bones to be.
     
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    dinosaur

    btw, what knife is that?
     
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