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Had a great day fossil hunting in the montana badlands, hell creek formation. Found and partially excavated this piece, we're not sure we're going to be able to get back out there to finish the excavation. Our first thought is it's the top view of a triceratops skull with the two brow horns angled down. The right horn in the picture comes to a natural termination, the left looks like the tip is broken off. It looks to be all one contiguous bone. Any collective wisdom what it might be? Apologies for the poor lighting and lack of measuring stick, we were limited out in the field.

Hello all, looking to get some opinions. 5-6 years ago I came across a ton of fragmented bones while scouting out a new collecting site. One of the first things that really caught my eye was this, lets call it a "claw". Like I said this was among a ton of shattered bone so it kind of stood out right away. I followed the bone fragments more up a very steep hill that turns into a cliff. This led me probably 50-75 feet from the initial sighting of bone to a place that was dangerously steep, but I could see more bone weathering out of the hill. It was in very bad shape and turned out to be a few vertebra. On my way up I also several pieces of what turned out to be a vertebral process. I collected what I could but a lot of it had turned to dust. I could tell there was more but there was almost no feasible way to safely dig. I began to look at what I was able to collect and I started seeing some interesting things. Some of the pieces of vertebra were very porous with large pores and I had found the "claw" at the base of the site. Could it be? Life got in the way, and I was not able to get back out until this year. To my surprise there is still bones weathering out. I found another vertebra in bad shape, and a shattered rib that I was able to reasonably piece together. This came out with minimal excavation and I saw there was more bone exposed at the same level around 6 feet away. It appeared to be another rib or flat bone, but it was in an even more difficult spot. Could these be Tyrannosaurus bones? I will include many more photos soon. Dawson county, MT.

Here is another one from the Lance Creek area. So far not a lot of luck on identifying these pieces but it’s worth a shot to keep trying. This was found in Lance Creek of Wyoming which is Cretaceous. The area is known for Triceratops and Edmontosaur so will keep trying to identify these bits and pieces.