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Found this small tooth here in SE Texas. It's missing part of its root and appears to be worn at the chewing surface. I couldn't find horse or cow to match up with it nor deer which is what I usually find. Any thoughts?
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I found this small vertebra on a SE Texas gravel bank...it is pretty small. I'm not sure about vertebrae with the triangular opening versus the round opening. Do mammals have both in a column? It is rock solid and fossilized but I don't know what it's from. I have a picture with the measurement but had to hold it to get a straight photo. (Need to get some putty).
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So I was excited to find what I'm pretty sure is another horse incisor...it's a little bigger than the last one I found a few weeks ago, but still stoked to find another after all the equus cheek teeth I've been finding. It's a little darker than the other so age probably can't be determined after the tannins info I received last time...but still a cool find in my book. Found on a gravel bank in Southeast Texas. If it's anything else.. would love and welcome feedback. The incisor on the right was the find from a few weeks back....left specimen was from yesterday's hunt. Lots of finds on account of the very low river level.
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Found this little piece a while back, and I'm pretty sure it's a navicular. It looks similar to the equus navicular examples I've seen on the site, but there do appear to be a few differences. The differences might just be due to wear, but I wanted to see if anyone had a different take. Blocks are square inches.
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I found this on a gravel bank here in Southeast Texas...I didn't want to leave it because I thought it was pretty unusual. Well, for me anyway....I don't know much about rocks...but in all my years I haven't seen anything like this. It's probably common as can be and easily identifiable to the rock guys...but I thought it was cool as heck on account of the amber colored porous section on top, swirl pattern in the middle and the greenish blue bottom. Different colors, distinct layers. Oh, And I spend a lot of time looking at the rocks trying to find fossils so this did stand out easily to me...so I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about it.
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So this has been staring at me on the shelf for sometime waiting for an ID. Jokes aside...I found this on a SE Texas gravel bank...thought it was real peculiar looking...seemed to me to look like a coprolite...it has an unusual shape to it with markings all around...and if it isn't...what could it be much less the rectangular piece in the photographs? I thought maybe the small piece was bone or something. And the whole thing is solid as a rock and heavy. Sorry the pics are so close...wanted to get the details.
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Here's another thing I found here in Southeast Texas...I'm wondering if it's an antler or a spike? It's solid as a rock...it has edges and appears to have a single distinct layer line.
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I'm not sure if this is a chunk of bone or wood...it has an almost sharp edge to it...and on one end of the specimen there are holes on the edge while the other side doesn't have them. There's also some intentions on the top outer edge of one side. I know it just a chunk of "something" but does that hard edge come from anything y'all recognize?
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I found this nice little bone today on a gravel bank here in SE Texas. I think it's part of a humerus and even though it has some missing pieces and some wear I am thinking it belongs to a bison. Also this is the second piece I've found where it feels heavily mineralized but yet it flakes like a biscuit.
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Found this bone fragment today in SE Texas on a gravel bank. Not sure what it's from...I was thinking it might be the base of a mammal skull...not sure of the scientific name for it. Has a small bit of matrix on it. Any thoughts? Sorry I haven't had a chance to clean it. And are there teeth marks on it? These closeup marks seem unusual.
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I found this large, flat bone fragment in a southeast Texas gravel bar. Not sure if there's enough detail here to make a solid ID, especially on the articular process. I tried comparing it to other large mammal flat bones like ribs and scapulas, but couldn't figure it out. Hoping someone with more experience can help ID it. Thanks for any help!
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Lucky me the river level is dropping after a small increase but it was enough for me to hit the usual spot and find a few things today. Found this very solid specimen that after searching online I believe it might be a bison 3rd phalanx or a hoof core? I almost passed it by because I thought it was a rock...it's definitely fossilized. It's the first one of these I've found so I thought it was pretty cool. Probably an overkill on photos but I wanted to get the best photos I could of it. Found in SE Texas on a gravel bank.
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I found this little tooth...or at least part of a tooth and I can't figure it out. It's 1 cm wide...I'm assuming it's the chewing surface of a larger piece...but to what? Thanks for any help with this ID. SE Texas.
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Is this little guy a raccoon femur? It's about 12 cm long...found it in the sand on a bank here in SE Texas. Looking online it seems to fit.
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I've been wanting to break down each horse tooth I have and try to identify them...Brandy had me going back to look at my teeth to see if there was anything special about them. Actually , they're all special to me but I never really thought about each one or really any of them possibly being from a different type of horse. So I'll be going over different ones separately because they're all so different starting with this BIG ONE. It's huge compared to the others...so are the other horse teeth juvenile and this a normal tooth? It's just much bigger and I can't figure out why...it definitely has wear on the ends where an ID might be impossible. The other teeth are relatively similar in size but this thing was on some serious steroids. Jk..Or.. am I way off and this is from something else?? The markings that I can see don't seem to compare to anything similar as to the last image of the tooth next to it...which itself is a big tooth but still smaller than this one. Found on a gravel bank in SE Texas. Edit: So I did read they Equus Giganteus did exist in Texas and that there may have been an even larger horse E. Enormis.
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I found this today here in SE Texas...the river is down so I thought I'd check the same ole spot...found a bunch of pieces and this cool little one. Actually it's a decent size...hadn't found one of these yet...I just don't know what it is or what it might be from? It's about 4.5 inches total length...could it be bison or something else as big? I took a top, front, back, and bottom picture...then a whole bunch from different views cause I really didn't know how to place it best for an ID. Edit: could it be a cervical vertebra to something?
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So (A ) and (C) are unusual. Well...(B) too, of course for me anyway, but (A) zoomed in has some wicked patterns or weaving. It's heavy...and (C) even tho it's a fragment...it looks different from my other bones including the larger ones I've yet to post. Those are coming in the days ahead by the way. Southeast Texas gravel banks.
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Found this today on a gravel bank and I think it might be a phalange? It's about 1.75 inches in length. I think it might be Equus?
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Found this piece the other day on the gravel here in SE Texas. I couldn't figure out what it is or belonged to. It's smaller than some of my other leg bones so my 1st assumption was perhaps deer but I don't know. It has an interesting shape at the top portion...I know some of you will know this immediately. Edit: is it a tibia??
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Found this today in Southeast Texas Pleistocene alluvial deposits. I'm not sure if it's a tooth or a claw and to what it might belong to or the age...can anyone help?
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I found this piece today...it's the first time I'd seen something like this...I don't have anything like it. I can see where a bone has broken off from it...but i can't figure out the area with the flatter side and the holes or openings. I'm not sure where to start with this identification. Horse and cow are pretty common in my finds but I've already been surprised by other pieces. Gravel bank in Southeast Texas. And forgive me for all the pictures...I'm really trying to get everything I can to help ID it.
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I found this piece today...same area as the others...I think it's a Bovid astragalus? I tried to compare it to others online. Southeast Texas gravel bank. Definitely has river wear.
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I have a question or two on this piece I found today. Of all the pieces I've found this is the ONLY one that has this flaking property to it. It has some weight to it...but the outside is flaking like a buttermilk biscuit. And I know that a gentleman said that even really old bones don't necessarily have to be fossilized or mineralized...could this be old or were conditions just right for it to do this and perhaps it's a few months to a few years old? I know with the ends missing the mammal might not be able to be identified...but it does have this edge that's broken that I focused on. Found today on a gravel bank in Southeast Texas.
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Looking online I think this is a humerus...worn down but it's heavy...and big. Bison maybe? Found it on a gravel bank here in SE Texas.
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I know this is for fossils but I found an unusual rock one day while I was out fossil hunting. I kept it cause I had never seen anything like it. It looks like there must've been tremendous heat and pressure to melt and merge 3 things together. And maybe these things are all over and it's not unusual for some but on the rock banks I search...this thing might as well be Martian.
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