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As I wrapped up my hunting season on the Peace River, FL recently I decided to start going through my unidentified finds and try to figure out what they are. I am posting two of them here in the hopes that someone will recognize what they might be. Both are partials and were found at different sites on the river. First up is a rounded and grooved partial bone that I think could be the distal end of an Equus femur. There is an obvious groove on one side and this could easily be a ligament channel. Measurements seem to fit the Equus distal femur from what I have been able to find in my research. Inches = 3.25" long x 2.50" wide x 2" tall MM =. 80mm x 65mm x 50mm Next is what looks to be a partial limb bone. I have not been able to come up with a possible match and don't know if there is enough of the actual bone to make an ID. Measurements- Inches = 3.50" long x 1.50" wide MM = 90mm long x 40mm wide Any input would be greatly appreciated , Thanks!
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So when I first dug this up out of the sand, I thought it was probably modern due to the color, and it felt pretty light and a little more brittle than my normal finds. But there is mostly Pleistocene material here and sometimes it can be hard to tell. I put a lighter under it and it had no reaction. And when I cleaned it up, I realized that a hole runs through it. I've read a lot of past posts by @Harry Pristis describing foramen, and I've seen examples in his collections where he discusses the differences between which animals have which types of foramen, but I'm still a little shaky on telling whether this would be an entepicondylar or supracondylar foramen. I thought that foramen for leg bones are only found in the distal humerus, but this bone has a particularly flat end that doesn't seem like a great match for the humerus examples I've looked at so far. Maybe that's just due to wear. I feel like I'm probably missing something here. Any info would help. Thanks. --Brandy
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