sjaak Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I guess this will be difficult. The biggest bone I found with lots of strange, associated pieces. Alle are associated. Late Jurassic of the Boulonnais, France. Looks like a bowl or dome. Any ideas are welcome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Have you tried prepping or cleaning this any further, Niels? Could be a sauropod vertebra, judging by the size? I know that some sauropod chevrons have recently been found in the Boulonnais (last one was found in February by Au Gré du Boulonnais, I believe), so it wouldn't come as a surprise if a caudal vertebra were to follow some point. 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 I found some other pieces and glued it back. It’s a very big chunk of bone. Maybe not impressive for other places like the USA, but very rare in Northwest Europe. I brought it to the Naturalis natural history museum and we think it could very well be a sauropod bone, possibly a broken head of the femur. I see if I can make some better pictures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 1 hour ago, sjaak said: I found some other pieces and glued it back. It’s a very big chunk of bone. Maybe not impressive for other places like the USA, but very rare in Northwest Europe. I brought it to the Naturalis natural history museum and we think it could very well be a sauropod bone, possibly a broken head of the femur. I see if I can make some better pictures. That'd be really impressive, yet fit with what has been found. Looking forward to those images 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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