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I don't see any Shreger lines on this but I think it is a piece of tusk found yesterday, Wednesday on a gravel bank. I know those lines are present on tusk but can this be so worn smooth on the edges it's not visible? I guess a cleaner unworn cross section might show them or could this be something else?
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I found this tooth yesterday on a river gravel bank. I didn't see any coloring to it and almost threw it thinking modern cow. Glad I kept it because underneath the dirt and dust it has a nice color to it so it makes me think bison. Can a cow tooth have coloring like this? I'm just wondering under the best conditions, how long does it take for this to happen to a tooth? Sorry didn't get size but I will when I get home from work.
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Hadn't seen one of these yet. Which bone is it? Maybe a deer something? It has a single articular surface... it has an edge on top and a groove along the bottom. It seems like what a claw would look like but this is bone so it has to be something I haven't seen yet. I just found it half an hour ago hadn't had a chance to measure it yet. Found on a river gravel bank.
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This here is what I believe to be a completely mineralized head to a femur. It's rock solid. Beneath it, the bone has some sort of blue crystallization to it... not sure what that's called. But I am not sure, based on the size, if its bison, juvenile mammoth or something else. Think it's too big for Equus and not big enough for mammoth. I have a large femur and it is bigger than that one. Found it yesterday, Saturday, on a SE Texas gravel bank. It has a nice blue color to the bottom of it due to the crystallization. And it's interesting that the crystals are only on the bottom part of it. And I have to ask... is that groove on it in the 1st picture natural? Or was that perhaps a tooth bite or weapon blow? Size across the ball: 2.3 in or 57 mm *sorry I say "crystallization/crystals"... I'm sure there's a word for it
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I have a spot where there are thousands of rocks like these on the ground which, unfortunately, are covered in mud and algae. I found my Eremotherium occipital condyle here and every foramen was filled in with sand and it didn't have a recognizable shape, but it had an unusual shape and I kept it and was thrilled when I removed it all and saw what it was. I found this Sunday... couldn't see any bone at all but the shape was interesting... plus it looked like a green cartoonish alien head which was amusing at the time. Sandstone is everywhere and this thing was packed and it was hard to remove but I finally did today. The bone is very brittle. It looks crushed on one side... cows do travel thru here. But I have found a camelid metatarsal here also that was extremely brittle in this same condition too so I think this is old. What bone is this? The ball on top seems flat-ish. Is this a femur with a femur head? The damage to it is as it was found.
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I found this Saturday on a river gravel bank... it's completely mineralized and heavy. Sorry I didn't get a chance to measure it, but it is a fragment of something. I'm thinking it's from a large mammal but I'm not familiar with large toe bones and wondered if this might be one or if it's just a fragment to a large bone?
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Found this Saturday on a river gravel bank... it's mineralized but I haven't found one like this. Could be Equus but I don't know... doesn't look like the others I've found. Thanks for your thoughts.
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I found this Saturday on a river gravel bank and I think it's an Equus incisor? It's colorful like the other Equus teeth I've found.
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I found this Saturday on a river gravel bank and it's pretty beat up... but it's unusual compared to others I've found. It's completely mineralized and highly eroded... but from what is left it seems to be going all over the place. Can't figure it out. There's super smart people here who could probably instantly figure it out. Probably a scrap but a cool puzzle. I'm still researching.
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I found this tooth today Sunday on a river gravel bank. Is it a bison tooth? It has nice colors and it's pretty solid. If it's cow, that would be the nicest one I've found. Thanks for your thoughts. Sorry will add size here shortly.
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I found this also today, Sunday, which is a a bone fragment to a large mammal, I think. Probably won't know what it came from... I was curious if anyone might know the bone? It is a fragment but it is divided down the middle on the inside of the bone. The outside is pretty worn. I don't think it's a leg bone....Don't think skull. But I'm not sure at all about it and could be wrong about those. Thanks for your thoughts. Found on a river gravel bank.
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I found this small bone today at 3.4 inches (8.63 cm/86.36 mm) in length. Looks like a cat humerus. Common house cat or could it be a raccoon? It's not mineralized so probably modern, but it was found where I find other pleistocene material. I'm just wanting to learn them to be able to recognize them later.
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So earlier today I went down to my usual small area to check out a gravel bank since the river level had dropped, and I found this in the mud and sand where the water receded. At first I thought it was a piece of rusted metal when I picked it up and then I realized it was a bone...an ulna. Having served in the Army and Marines I immediately grabbed it as it had a handle and thought to myself that this looks like a weapon...a dagger...not knowing anything about it. And also thinking it could still easily function as a weapon even with the river wear it has...it's still very capable of puncturing. So I went online and searched for what kind of ulna it might be and thinking it is pretty broken up...and i started finding images of deer ulnas used as awls...maybe even as daggers. Not sure by who might have used them....native american Indians or prehistoric ancestors. So I can't figure out the age of this, if it might indeed be a tool such as an awl or a dagger, if it's even a deer ulna, or it's just a coincidentally fragment bone that resembles a tool? Any thoughts? Also the color lightens on the "blade" portion of this which makes me think it's due to usage.
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Here is another find from the other day. It's solid, heavy, and completely mineralized. Found on a gravel bank. I think it's a rib bone to a large mammal. I have found both mammoth and Eremotherium laurillardi here in this spot. Looking at some images online I believe they both have this groove. Is there some way to know which this might belong to? Or is this from something smaller like a bison? Length is: Almost 8 inches
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I found this vertebrae fragment the other day. It's completely mineralized. I had to look at my other vertebrae and don't have one similar where the body is this flat and the articular facets are that far out. Perhaps because of all that is missing... it is throwing me off but I don't have anything to compare it to and couldn't find one online. I'm just curious as to what it belongs to. Its not in the greatest shape but it's interesting. Any thoughts?
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This is about 3" in length. I think it's turtle but I'm not sure. I tried looking at various bones online for turtles and couldn't match it. But it's flat so that's my only reasoning. It has a distinctive shape. I don't think it's antler. Found on a river gravel bank.
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At 4" and after some of my last threads about turtles... I thought this was a mammal bone at 1st when I found it, but then I went back and saw the sides today and decided this is a large turtle chunk. I'm not sure which part but it's pretty thick on one side and the curvature on the inside threw me off because most turtle pieces I find are flat or mostly flat. Found on a river gravel bank. Is this turtle?
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I found this completely mineralized bone the other day on a river gravel bank. It's solid. It is pretty worn... but I figured there might be enough to get an ID. The size is 5 inches or 127 mm in length. I thought it might be a calcanea, but I also thought it might be the proximal end of a humerus. Thanks for your thoughts. In the 1st picture... I don't know if the side was highly worn prior to mineralization OR it had a deformity cause it looks like a mess. It looks too big for deer also. Don't think cow bone mineralizes as this is.
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I found this the other day on a gravel bank. It could be a rock. The colors look alot like the enamel I've found before but this is a larger piece. It has an unusual shape. On an edge it has some lines that run parallel. I just haven't seen enamel like this other than the color.
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I found this bone a week ago. I know it's a vertebra... just not sure which one. It's very worn and missing more than what's remaining. But with the deep, recessed facet I believe it to be an axis vertebra. I am not familiar with the square opening on top. I don't recall seeing that on anything. Perhaps the wear exposed a bigger opening underneath of a surface smaller one. Species is probably outta the question, but is it axis... and is that square opening that way on even a complete bone? River gravel bank find. Has a thin layer or matrix on it. Didn't get to measure it yet sorry.
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Found this earlier today... was wanting to know if it's a turtle humerus? 4" in length. Found on a river gravel bank. Never really paid much attention to turtle pieces... now I see them everywhere.
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Found this today... don't think it's deer because it does look thin like those jawbones are. It didn't look like hog either. I'm wondering if there was a spot for a canine? Does anyone recognize? Found on a river gravel bank. 5" in length. Dog?? Coyote?
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I found this yesterday... and I was wondering what it is. I know skulls have sutures... and this looks like a suture to me. I have no clue, but are there other bones that have sutures... say like rib or leg bones? I don't think it's a break and there's not any ends to make an ID on what mammal it belongs to. It's completely mineralized. It really does looks more like a suture line than a break. It's not a great bone and probably a scrap... but I was just curious as to what other bones I could expect to see this on as I hadn't seen it yet. Found on a gravel bank.
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I found this puzzle yesterday. There's not much to go on for an ID. It's definitely a small bone... it's mineralized. But this thing is shattered. Broken. Fragmented and in pieces like a puzzle. And it's been filled in throughout all of the fractures by matrix or sediment. I started to clean it up but I found the matrix is what's holding it together so I wanted to just leave it that way. It's pretty neat. But my questions is this @GPayton cause you've probably seen it down here. I found another piece that I think is wood but how does this happen? Is it crushed before and quickly filled in and mineralized and if so how does it even maintain its shape? Or does matrix fill in after mineralization through a break then expand and shatter the rest?? And I think it is bone. Could be wrong but it looks like it.
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Found this big chunk of bone this morning and it's crazy heavy and is full of foramen, canals, chambers you name it. The bone is thick and for the life of me I can't recognize anything on it other than maybe the top of the skull divided where a suture might have been. Maybe. Even then the rest of it puzzles me. Can't find an eye socket or where a nose would be or anything else. Anyone recognize anything?? It's about 10 inches long. Sorry yall I use my phone I know on a desktop or laptop computer this is a lot of images... I tried to get as many angles and hopefully one of those will be what someone needs to recognize it. River gravel bank find.
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