Unidentified Growth - Please Help

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offthewall1

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I photographed this item off the coast of San Salvador Island Bahamas... nobody seems to know what it is. Anyone know?

Thanks in advance for help ID'ing.

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hair clip ?
 
It looks like gastropod eggs to me, maybe a conch? Each of those slices contains ~50-100 young that will emerge into veligers.
 
Eggs from a Horse Conch.

Oops, we call them Horse Conch in the Bahamas but the proper name is West Indian Chank. I have seen them laying the egg cases before - It takes forever...
 
Thanks for the info... I was thinking egg case... but had no idea from what.
 
What are the dimensions? The Conch things are small. A type of shark also lays a case like that but it is larger, like 12 inches long and maybe 3-4 inches in diameter. Don;t recall the name of the shark, I also found them on the bahamas. I used to have pics but lost them on my old computer when it died.
 

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