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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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Small Mammal Calcaneus?--Opposite Side View
Brandy Cole posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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From the album: Brazos River Finds--August 2021
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So I've been hitting the Brazos River pretty steadily all year for Pleistocene fossils, but aside from some astragali, the only perfectly complete bones I've been able to find are two Equus metacarpals ( cannon bones). I'm not sure if this post belongs in this section of the forum since I'm not really looking for an ID (unless I'm wrong and one of the bones isn't Equus after all), but instead wanted to ask a question about the bones' anatomy. That's because although they both look exactly the same and are both clearly cannon bones from what I'm positive are horses, they each have different lengths and widths. The distal faces are also both different - the skinnier cannon bone has a pitted face while the thicker, shorter cannon bone has a completely flat one. Right now my theory is that horses either have different length cannon bones in their fore vs their hind legs, or the two bones are from different aged horses, but I haven't been able to find anything helpful online. Anybody able to help me out? Are these bones from different species or is one of my two wild guesses actually right? And because I've appreciated their help so much in the past, I'll just give @Harry Pristis and @Shellseeker a heads up!
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This is a modern bone, but I’m interested for comparative purposes. I know felid humeri have a hole at the distal end, so I’m wondering If bobcat would be a good fit for this bone?
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Because of a recent post by @GPayton I went through a pile of unidentified bones and found three vertebrae that I think might be alligator or crocodile. These are from the Brazos River in Texas. Please confirm that these are crocodilian if possible…. @Harry Pristis @fossilus @Shellseeker here’s #1
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Found this almost complete vertebra on the Brazos River near Houston several months ago, missing only one of the larger processes and one of the smaller ones. I initially assumed it was just another horse or bison vertebra which are pretty common around here, but after looking at it again I realized that, although worn, one side is convex and the other is concave like in reptile vertebrae. After looking at some pictures online it bears some resemblance to alligator vertebrae. If that's what it is I would be overjoyed since the only other alligator material Ive found before is a single osteoderm about a year ago. As always, if someone could confirm my tentative ID I'd be very grateful. And an in-situ just for fun:
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