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John Ruiz posted an update 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoAnyone can tell me if this is a fossil or any info on how to describe it as far as I can tell it is the shape of a skull without the bottom jaw and downwards of the body of a mammal The vertebrate is central with parallel and and with equal design feature on both left and rite side with dips equal on both sides show were teeth were yet has one eye socket on each side but the thing is as if lying on its side both sides fossilized differently .i have more photos the darker ones are wet under water and then pulled for photos to show other shiny minerals
Part of a partial and very heavily weathered ammonite, not a vertebrate. The shiny lustrous part is part of the nacre (like the inside of a pearl shell), which means it is a mollusk. The “teeth bumps” are likely sutures of an ammonite. If you look at a suture from the end, it has round evenly spaced bumps. You can see some examples here: https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/
It would also be helpful if you can specify where you found it.
It was found in yermo. California