Guns Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Hi everyone! second post of the day. i am interest in this fossil. Need help in autheticity &ID of it. **Info from seller** item : cetiosaurus vetrebra location : Great houghton, Northampton, England (seller also note that it came from an unusual location) i am not sure but it look like pliosaurus vertebra to me. please correct me on that. many thank sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Poorly preserved centrums can be very difficult to assign. Here are some Cetiosaurus vertebrae you can compare against. No ligament pits in any of them. A couple provided by Masp vist to Natural History Museum London Holotype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted August 24, 2020 Author Share Posted August 24, 2020 @Troodon umm... after i do a lot of compare it does look like cetiosaurus vertebra but also it does look a bit like Pliosaurus vertebra to me those two 's vertebra look similar to each other T____T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Why featureless centrums are hard to identify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurufossils Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 @Guns Reminds me alot more of marine reptile bone like plesiosaurus. The shape and even the holes on the sides are very reminiscent of marine reptile and similar to the material I have found and seen, heres a few pics of some plesiosaur verts a quick comparison. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 @Ryann10006 thank for compare picture . Yeah i agree i does look very much like plesiosaurus vert as you said . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurufossils Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 @Guns Yep seen many coming out of the UK being passed as dinosaur verts, better to be safe than sorry. I have a friend who got a few similar verts and it ended up just being marine reptile. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 @Ryann10006 thank for advice man! really appreciated. as you said (very well said)a lot of marine reptile vert had been listed as dino vert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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