fossil identification help

[LukeWarm13]

My wife found this while tooth diving off the NC coast. We guessed it was a whale bone but we have no clue what we're talking about. Its hollow on one end and closed off on the other. The closed end looks like spongy bone marrow.

Ideas? Do you need to see any other angles?

thanks!

 

[Wildbill]

You should re-post this in Florida Conch Divers section.........Lots of Fossil Hunters there and someone will probably know what it is or tell you where to look to find out.

 

[wreckvalle]

Looks like a horn.

Check out
The Fossil Shark Tooth and River diving Artifact Guide fossil ID guide

 

[LukeWarm13]

Thanks. I posted it in the Florida's conch divers section and someone told me it looked like the base of a deer antler too. pretty cool.

 

[BOHUNTER]

Base of a Deer Antler ... Yes.. and since the one end is the Skull cap, and the other is hollow it could have been a handle for a knife or altered by man. If so its not a fossil its an artifact. Since it doesnt show any cut marks or drillings it a toss up, Id say fossil. Our fossils in Florida are normally black and Pleiocene age and younger.

Neat find and a keeper, let it dry slowly if it feels light. Heavy mineralization would mean solid and ok to dry qith air, but if its light and feels flakey like then semi wet drying is the way to go with some acetone/ducco cement/ Elmers glue process.

Steve

 

[CaptEsteban]

Yep, antler. Always a nice find !