Friday mystery object #507

This week I have a detail from a specimen, to really test your deductive skills:

I suspect there isn’t really enough to work with here, so here’s a slightly less close up view:

Any idea what this might be? As always, you can pop your thoughts, questions and suggestions in the comments box below!

5 thoughts on “Friday mystery object #507

  1. Adam Yates's avatar

    Well, if you just used the first photo you might be up a certain creek without a paddle.

    But the second photo reveals many teeth.

  2. Darcy Kehler's avatar

    To split the difference between two possible choices you might go with a spatula, or you might cut sharper (or bigger?) with a gladius?

  3. Allen Hazen's avatar

    I’m with Adam on the identification: translate “many teeth” into Greek if you have trouble with his hint. … The photos I have found on the WWWeb of the rostral skeleton of this animal show it in a more thoroughly de-fleshed (?) state: it’s a complicated 3-dimensional structure of struts in various orientations, meeting at starlike junctions. (Buckminster Fuller on steroids!) Paolo’s photo seems to show some of the star-junctions as close to the surface, appearing on it when the surrounding matrix ?? shrinks with drying ??

    Fascinating creature, fascinating photo!

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