Help On ID

[JarrodB]

I found this hollow bone in an area on Northeast Texas that has a mix of Pleistocene and Cretaceous fossils. I sent the pics to two paleontologist and one thought cretaceous bird and one thought it was a raccoon distal left radius. I wanted to see what everyone thought. It's definitely a hollow fossil bone. 

[Plax]

keep in mind that a lot of bones rot out in the middle. Old mammal bones on trash heaps will end up hollow for instance. I have no idea what your bone is though.

[JarrodB]

3 minutes ago, Plax said:

keep in mind that a lot of bones rot out in the middle. Old mammal bones on trash heaps will end up hollow for instance. I have no idea what your bone is though.

I believe this is quite possible for the area I'm hunting. 

[connorp]

@Auspex

[Auspex]

The walls are not near thin enough for an avian bone; they would need to be 1/4th the thickness they are, or even less.

Neither do any morphological details suggest to me that it is avian.

[JarrodB]

7 minutes ago, Auspex said:

The walls are not near thin enough for an avian bone; they would need to be 1/4th the thickness they are, or even less.

Neither do any morphological details suggest to me that it is avian.

Thanks buddy. 

[Mark Kmiecik]

It does look a lot like a raccoon radius from what I Googled, but I am not an expert on bones.