Help Me Identify This

PaulaJedi

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I found this in the woods. It isn’t very big. It is thin like a shellfish or fingernails. I thought maybe it was part of a beak or the bottom jaw of something. Any ideas?

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The 3rd pic is an optical illusion. It curves inward, not outward.
 

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Openings for big nostrills at the front, teeth at the rear for heavy chewing, not so pointy head. Could be the lower part of a crushed baby boar skull (not the jaw, because it's enclosed).
 

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Openings for big nostrills at the front, teeth at the rear for heavy chewing, not so pointy head. Could be the lower part of a crushed baby boar skull (not the jaw, because it's enclosed).

I'll look that up. It's very fragile, though, so perhaps newborn? It reminds me of shellfish, it's so thin. Would baby boars have spiky chins? Fetus maybe? I'll research. Thanks.

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Hmmmmm

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I found this last night. Tiny widdle teethies!

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Round teeth for eating vegetables. This excludes pure predators that only have sharp teeth and babies who would not reach this teeth development and wear. If puzzled together, we might see what the skull looked like as a whole. If eye sockets point in different directions, then it had no depth vision and can't hunt.

Can it be a river otter?
 
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PaulaJedi

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Round teeth for eating vegetables. This excludes pure predators that only have sharp teeth and babies who would not reach this teeth development and wear. If puzzled together, we might see what the skull looked like as a whole. If eye sockets point in different directions, then it had no depth vision and can't hunt.

Can it be a river otter?

Never seen them here and it would be an infant, but we do have creeks and ponds. I was thinking a new born bunny, but I don't know if they have teeth. Look how tiny it is. :)
 

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I'm thinking that second one is a mouse.
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