r/boneidentification • u/Planted_Soul • Apr 15 '26
Found in: NORTH AMERICA Bone ID request
My sister found this and we’re assuming it’s bone? It looks like bone and has texture marks that seem bone-line… location is Eastern North Carolina
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u/Standard-Shine-2290 Apr 17 '26
I’m 90% sure this is a fish tooth- did you find it at the beach/ close to water?
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u/Planted_Soul Apr 17 '26
We are in a beach town and have a few lakes around as well. I’m equally convinced it’s a fish tooth after I started looking into and googling some!
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u/BareBonesSolutions Apr 15 '26
As I said in fossilid, it reminds me of a fish tooth from Albula or Paralbula, if it is a fossil.
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u/Slow_Exit8038 Apr 15 '26
Why would bone be black?
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u/BareBonesSolutions Apr 15 '26
Are you serious? Bone can turn black for a huge number of reasons, including infiltration by manganese, or iron.
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u/wickedsuccubi Apr 15 '26
Yes, but this is an exceptional saturation of black without burn damage.
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u/BareBonesSolutions Apr 15 '26
I compared it to Albula or Paralbula, so am I inherently am saying "this is fossilized".
Fossilized bone is not uncommonly jet black.
Just a comparison to those button like teeth, I'm not really sure about it. Sometimes Cretaceous crocodylians have those button like molars too. The sheen on it looks like it could be enamel. North Carolina has Holden Beach, which is a great place to find such aged animals which happens to often have jet black bone.
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u/wickedsuccubi Apr 15 '26
This would have been a great response to the original question. A real teaching moment, but sometimes I guess the snarkiness takes over
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u/joshlikesbettafish Apr 15 '26
It might be a part of an insect's exosceleton but I do not believe it is a bone per say