I only realized how rare this dinosaur age fossil was after prepping it

I thought I had found a section of plesiosaurus rib - not an uncommon find - but while prepping it I saw it had weird fluting along the sides. I did a bit of googling and it appears to be something a bit more rare!

Looks like it is the rostrum (sword) from an ancient swordfish protosphyraena!

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