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The remains of a fish in a tree, photographed near High Point, New Jersey. Damned if I know how it got there.
A red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens), photographed near High Point, New Jersey.
A red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens), photographed near High Point, New Jersey.
A great blue heron (Ardea herodias), photographed at Cape May Point, New Jersey.
The angle of these photographs obscures several features that would be useful to confirm an identification, and we of course lack a spore print here.
The sheen in the photos makes the cap appear slimy. Running with that assumption, we're immediately narrowed down to a subgenus of Cortinarius called Myxacium. Despite having a lot of purple mushrooms (and some green ones), Cortinarius is largely a genus of poorly described brownish species (a couple of which, it should be pointed out, are lethally toxic).
But there aren't a lot of options for the purple-and-yellowish mottled cap in that bottom picture. So I'm going with C. iodes as my tentative identification. For comparison, here is a very nice pair of C. iodes by a professional photographer.