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Hi all! Went to the Peace river for the 1st time on Thanksgiving break, had a blast, am going to write a trip report soon. But these 4 bones are stumping me as to what they could be. Everything found was in the lower Peace. The finds are numbered for convenience. Thanks in advance for any help and guidance! 1) in my research, this looks like a camel unciform bone, but I wanted to ask around to make sure 2) my gut tells me this could be bison something, but I have no idea what part of the bison skeleton it is, if there's some anatomy resources available let me know. 3) this bone was dense, it's probably unlikely to ID, but I wanted to rule out Mammoth or not. 4) lastly what is probably yet another horse/bison frag. This one was annoying to figure out.
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Discovered an intriguing tooth in an Austin, TX creek. Unsure if it's from a bison, cow, or horse. Any insights appreciated!
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I’m sure I posted this when I found it, but I think I only got “bison” as an id. I’m reposting because of the recent post and subsequent conversation about bison vs cow tooth size. The length of the m3 is about 52mm. Would that measurement be in the range of bison antiquus?
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Hello I have found this in a river bed hiking with my family. I think its fairly old but how is hard to tell . The location was in the middle of a river that was lower then usual . I found 2 skulls and so many other bones that we gave up picking them up . 20230806_090919.heic 20230806_090916.heic 20230806_082646.heic 20230723_092521.heic 20230723_092512.heic 20230723_092517.heic
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Hello everybody,i'm James, I live in Portsmouth ohio and found a large trace fossil a year ago and it is so interesting to find fossils. I have no professional stance on the Paleo field, it's just a hobby that holds my interest. I found a big bone in my backyard digging, it was very large and for some sick reason I hoped it was a human bones...ikr! Turns out I guess it's a bison ankle LMBO. I want to see if you guys can tell whether or not this is an actual fossil or a new ...cow ankle..its not dark but pretty white...but it looks fossilized to my u familier eyeballs. . Thanks guys.
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last week I had a cool find...with help from this forum we identified it as part of the lower jaw of a bison. I live in the interior of Alaska. wood bison use to live here but became nearly extinct 200 years ago. although in 2016 they did release a small herd back into the wild near bethel. also, there is a sandbar a few miles upriver that they have been digging. we had a flood that took out 20-50 feet of riverbank and the river is still receding. I returned to the spot that I found the first bone in yesterday and at the water's edge found an old animal vertebrae, when I checked today, I found two more vertebra and what i think is the second part of the jawbone. the vertabraes all fit together. i am heading back will post better pictures later
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We found a large molar in our flower bed after our landscaper dropped off some river rock. It looks very similar to a Bison molar from our @Harry Pristis sampler. The color makes me think it is recent but it feels almost as heavy as Harrys remineralized tooth.
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Hi everyone! I'm Laurel and I love hunting the river looking for old things! My collection includes mostly bones and teeth, although I've found some Native American tools as well.
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Hello everyone, I went to visit family this past week in Gilmer County, West Virginia and found these mammal teeth in a creek. They were found pretty close to each other, which makes me wonder if they were from the same animal. They appear to be old, but I don’t think they are completely mineralized. They remind me a lot of the bison teeth I find down in Peace River, FL, but this is weird considering there are no cow or buffalo farms very close to the area I found these (that I know of). Anyone have any idea what these are, why they’re here, and how old they could be?
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I am looking for opportunities (combo of weather and water depth) to go hunting. Yesterday was one of those days with afternoon Thunderstorms. Got out about an hour early, trying to catch morning sunshine. Having been to this location before, I am expecting mostly marine shark teeth (Megs, Hemis, Dusky/Bull, Sand Tigers), Stingray fossils, Puffer-fish mouth plates and fewer mammal fossils. Expectations were met. Here is what I found... couple of hundred small shark teeth Plus.. usually it is the plus that interests me most... It took a while but I sorted down to this....the stuff I would keep for a while.. A photo of what should be an Alligator tooth: Sharing because of details on internal "rings" and unusual wear pattern.. A nice Ray barb find (for me) ... usually do not find the tips this long. Is this identifiable to species of Ray ? Then a pleasant surprise. I do not find many Bison teeth.... Then a relatively small lower tooth of a Tridactyl horse... At 40 mm, the longest Crown Height I have found in any of the smaller horses. An extra photo for those trying to ID to species and tooth position... Finally, An Equus tooth... This is an odd tooth, Long and THIN... 10.8 mm at its widest point, not much wider than my Nannippus tooth (8.1 mm) above.. Note the Transverse Hunter_Schreger Bands on the root end of this photo below Finally , it seems that the top edge of the chewing surface was "agatized/silicified" but that is now deteriorating....A very interesting tooth.. Mostly the shark and ray fossils came early and the mammal teeth later. The Thunderstorms held off until 1:15 pm, as I was finding the mammal teeth and because of that, had delayed my departure.. 30 minutes of Thunderstorms, heavy rain and flashes of Lightning drove me to cover and away from my shovel... I left after just one more sieve.... All in all, a glorious day with interesting finds...
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We recently picked up a landscaping and grass cutting job at a big office for a boat company with several warehouses and an office, etc. I noticed near one of their storage shed was reddish dirt, sandy and full of rocks, typical of the creeks of Northern and Central Louisiana or Mississippi, probably hauled in from 100 miles away. I noticed this and said to myself to keep my eyes out, might find a fossil or arrowhead. Sure enough, this was just barely sticking out. At first I thought it was a cow but realized it was way too big. It also passed the fire and sound test. From looking at others online, I figure it looks like a bison molar 3 from the lower jaw.
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Hi there! I am new to this site and woefully uneducated on fossils/bones/skulls but my friend felt like this skull was a bit large to be bison bison so I'd love to hear what anyone on here thinks! The largest diameter around the horn base is 8.5 inches. Item was found in NW Wyoming in the Wyoming range mountains south of Bondurant, WY. It was unearthed in an area that was burned over by the Roosevelt fire in '18. I don't really know what happens to bone when it burns so totally possible its a recent burned skull and not even a fossil but I figured I'd ask. Thanks so much.
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I was on a hike with my boyfriend yesterday along a lake in Central Alberta, Canada when we came across this bone in the river. I know some of the discourse of using the stylid as an identification tool to differentiate between cows and bison but I can’t seem to figure this one out! Please let me know!
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all, Can any bone experts id this as a male or female bison skull cap ? Old or young male or female ? im going to have some of my best bone finds displayed at a local nature center in may and I’m not a expert on bone id or aging bones. I epoxied recently to stop deterioration after skull dried. any recommendations such as young bull, female, male or what ever y’all can tell me looking at my pics. this is a river find and half of skull was exposed after recent flood as well as some other bones that I suspect came from same animal I found above skull and down stream 10 to 20 yards from skull. also already went back and dug considerable amount in area and didn’t find anymore of skeleton etc. most intact horn is est to be around between 7 and 8 inch long of tip was present. Right side is lost. 22inch spread as it is now with broke horns So add 1 inch to long horn and 3 to 4 inches on broke horn for total approximately 27 inches total when animal was alive etc. a est.
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Is this a Cows Tooth? If so, what part, and is it old or modern.
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Hello, I was fossil hunting a creek in north Florida yesterday and along with finding what I believe is our first meg out of this creek, we found a strange tooth that I believe is bovine or camel. (This is in inches, I couldn't find my tape measure- 1 inch~2 1/2 cm)
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I found this small bone on my most recent trip to the North Sulphur River. I know the river produces Pleistocene material from the river terrace deposits every once in a while and this bone looks completely different from all of the Cretaceous vertebrate fossils I've seen in the river before (mosasaur, turtle, fish, etc.) so I assumed it must be Pleistocene in age. In fact, it looks exactly like the heavily-mineralized Pleistocene bones I find near Houston. The dark brown color, how smooth and heavy it is, and the high-pitched clink noise it makes when it's tapped by anything metal are all characteristics I'm used to seeing. I could tell right away that it was some sort of wrist or ankle bone, but because I've only handled astraguli and calcanea before I didn't know exactly which one. An hour of searching here on the forum allowed me to narrow it down to a scaphoid but beyond that I couldn't get any more precise. The only pictures I found that seemed to match the closest were scaphoids from bison and camels. Can anyone here confirm an ID one way or the other? I'll tag @Harry Pristis, @Shellseeker, @garyc, @fossilus to get some better-trained eyes on this. Thanks!
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Found a mystery tooth at Paphos, Cyprus. can you help me identify it?
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So doing a culmination of my last couple trips out - and the fossil gods were benevolent these past trips! Found my first and second bison teeth, a rhino astragalus, a decently sized, very pretty Meg, and a bunch of other things! So without further ado: Starting off with the shark’s teeth - 2.3” Meg, tiny little posterior Meg, and a pathological Carcharhinus tooth: The bison teeth - both 4th premolars, but one is an upper (left), and one is a lower (right): The rhino astragalus: 2 Horse teeth, tapir tooth crown, rodent incisor, fish jaw, and an orange burr fish mouthplate: Gator teeth, an orange Croc tooth, 2 gator osteoderms, and 2 gator verts (Tail, I think?): 1 Holmesina osteoderm, 1 Juvenile glyptodon, 2 broken glyptodon, 1 Dasypus Bellus flex osteoderm, and 1 Dasypus novemectus flex osteoderm: Big chunk of mammoth tooth: And the rest of my finds minus the shark teeth - including a hawk claw core, an unknown claw core, a toe bone, cetacean ear bones, mammoth frags, and some other stuff: Overall I had some awesome finds, and I know there’s gonna be plenty more where that came from!
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After 20 years of searching creeks and local Texas river I finally found a bison skull well the cap with horns. Creek was just low enough for me to see it. Think roots growing in it helped it not wash away. Found a few bones 30 yards down stream that prob came from same animal found 100s prob close to over 500 bones of this species and others but no skull cap with horns. just a few jaws with teeth etc. here she is. Will start to preserve it and sitting in water right now. tons of roots in it in every little hole and compact deposit mud and rock. i added in my opinion the prettiest of north Texas fish species also I caught. I have a native aquarium at my house. Also my 11 year old thosand mile walked together explorer dog also. she keeps Sasquatch at bay and and other things I cannot see at bay or alerts they are around while my head is looking at ground. good advice is to get a dog that can be vicious when needed. Just saying. Some weird stuff in the woods I have encountered. IMG_3548.MOV
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Bison bison femur Science Museum of Minnesota
dbrake40 posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Bison bison. Wisconsin glaciation. Southern Minnesota, Brown County. Science Museum of Minnesota. Found in a riverbed in September of 2020 on a joint citizen scientist and Science Museum outing. I found this femur by noticing the femoral head sticking out of the river bottom. External Post:
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Hey guys! Found this medial Phalanx yesterday - and can’t figure out if it’s cow and thus modern, or bison and thus a fossil. It’s heavier than modern bones I’ve found but I wouldn’t say it’s rock solid/fully mineralized yet. Measures 47mm long by 25mm wide. @Harry Pristis I was looking at your comparison for them and can’t tell any discernible differences, any idea which this may be?
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