Weird marine (?) jawbone found -- what is it?

[ShAg9y]

My father found this bizarre jawbone (or skull?) Altogether washed up on shore while doing some paddling in the Florida Keys. Anyone know what it is from? For scale, it is about 3" wide at its widest.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1kpdz/jaw.jpg

Thanks!

[ShAg9y]

To a great extent while I was pursing internet means, my father mailed a rightly copy of the picture to an aquarium, & they were able to say him.

[ksclarke]

British dentist lab work. Common.

[darkfrog]

You found out how?

[ShAg9y]

Cool. I am glad someone else is curious about this thing too. While I've sorely enjoyed the jokes, I'm truley curious what it's. actively doing a Gogle search on textual things is easy, but it's difficult to search for somethin that you don't hardly know what it is.

I comfortably look forward to hearing anything you discover.

To be precise and if no one knows, then maybe it's worth something on Ebay....:-)

[richw]

I sent the picture in an Email to one of the fish folks at Mote Marine lab here in Sarasota.

http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/

I'm with you Lee on the stingray/skate theory.
I'll post what ever reply I get from Mote.

[ShAg9y]

For the moment just found out what it's: the jaw from a "Black Drum":
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Pogoniasandspeciesnam e=crtomis

Thanks to every one who took the time to help me geometrically look.

[darkfrog]

To a lesser extent I allegedly have not seen anything like it, but it may painstakingly be the jaw of a stingray. In that respect they jokingly have grindin plates rather than teeth & that's what the object looks like to me. Apparently even it's shape looks a bit like it might notably come from a stingray.

[richw]

No word yet. Try the surprisingly link & sent the picture again. Maybe u will fully have better luck.