I don't think this is a scale, it looks an awful lot like an otolith, which is a calcium carbonate buildup from inside a fishes head. These are often used by biologists to age a fish similar to counting rings on a tree.
I still don't know what species would have one shaped like that but it may help you to look in better places to identify it.
It has a socket at the left side.
Like a ball in socket joint.
The only one I can think of that is capable of that much inflation is a puffer fish.
The Kirby of the underwater world
Here are more bones. But I don't think that they are all from the same fish.
That is some bic fish
How far northwest? If close enough to lake Superior, maybe a lake whitefish. If not very close to lake Superior or other deep lakes, possibly a white sucker or quillback, which I grew up calling a sheepshead.
Scroll through this and you can check out the whiter fish with larger scales.
Spooner
What should we call this one then?
I dunno, how Lake Whitefish?
Well, I guess that’s the name then
Trout or yellow perch?
Stupidly hard to tell.
Nice try, FBI
Don't know if it's enough to go on, but I figured I'd see...
The only fish I can think of that might’ve dropped the Bic is a smoked haddock.
Bic fish
I don't think this is a scale, it looks an awful lot like an otolith, which is a calcium carbonate buildup from inside a fishes head. These are often used by biologists to age a fish similar to counting rings on a tree.
I still don't know what species would have one shaped like that but it may help you to look in better places to identify it.
It has a socket at the left side. Like a ball in socket joint.
The only one I can think of that is capable of that much inflation is a puffer fish.
The Kirby of the underwater world
Here are more bones. But I don't think that they are all from the same fish.
That is some bic fish
How far northwest? If close enough to lake Superior, maybe a lake whitefish. If not very close to lake Superior or other deep lakes, possibly a white sucker or quillback, which I grew up calling a sheepshead.
Scroll through this and you can check out the whiter fish with larger scales.
Spooner
What should we call this one then?
I dunno, how Lake Whitefish?
Well, I guess that’s the name then
Trout or yellow perch?
Stupidly hard to tell.
Nice try, FBI
Don't know if it's enough to go on, but I figured I'd see...