Stingray Mouth Plate

Shelling sistah Susan S. took a road trip with her husband to Manasota Key to do some SHARK'S TEETHing at Blind Pass Park in Englewood, Florida. I couldn't wait to see what she brought back to Sanibel. The first thing she told me "We found 250 SHARK'S TEETH!" then added "... and a guy on the beach told me these were a couple of STINGRAY MOUTH PLATES". Well, I guess they are. They are only about a half inch long and you can tell what they are by the little grooves. Doesn't it boggle the mind how someone figured out what these little pieces are when they are mixed in with sand, pebbles and shell crush? They can be up to 2 million years old! This is Susan with a hand full of SHARK'S TEETH... Look at all the SHARK'S TEETH spread out. It's so much more obvious that these are fossil teeth... instead of figuring out a fossil mouth plate. This tooth was about 2 1/2 inches long and broken in half. This came from a big sucker... Okay, now we have seen a STINGRAY MOUTH PLATE, lots …

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