dsludden Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Good afternoon, I found this item, that I assume is a vertebra, Lang the Neuse River in Craven County, NC. The shape is unusual and I was wondering if someone can tell me more about the bone. 1.25 inches wide 3.75 inches long and 1.75 inches tall. Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Kind of hard to be sure from the pictures, but it may be part of a broken axis vertebra. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsludden Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 SixGill Pete, Thank you for the response. Any idea why there is a bump on the surface? Most vertebrae’s I have seen have a concave shape in the center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Look up pictures of axis vertebra"s on marine mammals. They all have that bump. That is what makes me think it is one. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsludden Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Sixgill Pete, thank you for the additional information. I love learning from this forum. I now know that the “dens” is an element of the axis vertebrae. I spent the better part of last night looking through axis vertebrae to see if one matches my piece. I have two interesting suspects based on general shape, contours and size. Now I need to go back to the site to look for more fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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