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Unknown Cretaceous Bones


Tolmanbridge

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This is my first posting so I hope I am doing this correctly.  I have a few bones that I have found in the Morin Bridge area, east of Three Hills, Alberta.  It is Cretaceous era.  The first is a small bone that looks like part of a skull, possibly lizard.  The second set is a tooth.  My guess is a worn crocodile but they are rather rare in that area.  It is flat like a ray tooth but I think that is due to wear.  It also has a single root rather than a split one like on a ray.  The third is a large bone that has an unusual shape so I am hoping it is something someone would recognize.  Thanks for any assistance you can give me.  I collected dino fossils since the mid sixties and have quite a few that I need some help with so will probably be posting more.  Back in the 90's I took a chance and registered my collection with the Tyrrell Museum so I have a disposition certificate.  Andy Neuman, (spelling) from the museum actually came up and looked at some of the fish jaws I had but they did sign over what I have, thank goodness.  Here are the photos.

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The tooth may be mammal.  Let me ask @jpc to see if he has any idea.

Your second bone does look a bit like skull but I wonder if its center of a vertebra.  

Sorry no idea on the large bone.   The first photo has me scratching my head.

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The first one is out of order.  It is another view of the larger bone shown in later photos.  I kind of thought the tooth was mammal also based on the root.

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Your tooth looks vaguely similar to a Didelphodon tooth shown on wikipedia albeit more worn

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My other guess would be highly worn Brachychampsa 'molar'

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Thank you PaleoNoel.  Both those are good suggestions.  When I compare photos my tooth has features that could be either one.  Might have to take a trip to the Tyrrell some day soon and have them look at it.  Hope it is more mammal than Brachychampsa but either are quite uncommon in the area.

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