Mysterious Skull Identification Please

[Carlie]

I did think fish and that perhaps I was looking at the skull from the wrong angle.

I had bones from a plec once and he had a really big bone at the front of his dorsal fin very simlar to this one, so it's possible it is a fish.

I've had another look and the skull is firmly fused at the number 1 spot and hinged at number 2.

[freekygeeky]

just showed my dada he recons its a fish (he is a keen fisherman---but could be wrong lol)

[Carlie]

Ewwww, there's a bloody slug in it!!

It's quite decomposed, but it looks like the back of the skull is where the 'jaws' meet. What looks like eye sockets could still be eye sockets, just set back on a long head perhaps?

[freekygeeky]

Originally Posted by freekygeeky

just showed my dada he recons its a fish (he is a keen fisherman---but could be wrong lol)

p.s sorry for the poor paint job.

[Carlie]

Originally Posted by freekygeeky

just showed my dada he recons its a fish (he is a keen fisherman---but could be wrong lol)

So what might the 'jaw' bits be then? A part of it's gills or something?

I'm open to the idea that they're not teeth at all.

I said it'd be the left overs of somebody's dinner.

[freekygeeky]

Originally Posted by Carlie

So what might the 'jaw' bits be then? A part of it's gills or something?

I'm open to the idea that they're not teeth at all.

I said it'd be the left overs of somebody's dinner.

could be bone structure, or dad said they could of flipped and fused backwards (since it died, as in then go anti clockwise, and become the jaw.. is that makes ssense.?... lol

[freekygeeky]

there.

[RasperAndy]

pectoral fins?

[freekygeeky]

Originally Posted by RasperAndy

pectoral fins?

yea poss

[sam432]

i think the teeth like parts are part of the gills/throat, well i remember looking inside the mouth of a biggish perch and these things were all round it. was hoping it was like prehistoric or sommet oh darn