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Jon Thele posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoJon Thele has contributed specimen mFeM 95077 to myFOSSIL!
Jon Thele posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
Jon Thele has contributed specimen mFeM 95077 to myFOSSIL!
it’s is a scutes (I’m pretty sure) and if so it’s probably from a crocodile🐊
Wavy is soft shell turtle. Croc is big well defined circles, turtle is either less defined and shallower circles, or deeper wavy texture like this.
Thanks!
Another diagnostic which is barely visible in the croc scute you posted earlier is looking from the side. Croc will have a v shape or a bit of a ridge to it, turtle will be pretty uniformly flat though the texture will often go gradually from closed to open.
Turtle
@corinne-daycross I see where your coming from but I don’t know any turtle with these kinda scutes do you know species?
@smudge-smith softshell is as much as I would say with confidence. I’ve handled a lot of them but nobody in the lab was studying turtles so never bothered to id past that.
OK 👌
None of us know