Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Anyone know what this is from. Found under a bridge on the Smokyhill River Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jpc Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 My guess is deer... modern. Although we have no idea how big these are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Forgot to put a coin next to them. Seems to small to be deer but could be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 it appears juvenile since sutures are open on the sacrum, so that may account for the relatively small size. Is it fossilized? Does it pass the burn test? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 I haven't tried. What's the best way to try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Think they are recent. Used a lighter and the vertebrae do smell like burnt hair. Leg bone has some smell but not much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Did the leg again almost no smell and the burn marks come off with water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 I hate inderterminate tests. I would assume if the sacrum is recent than the leg bone must also be. Still i have been thinking about where you are and your other bone fossil and feeling jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 River finds are almost never the same animal. So I'm sure both are from different animals. Maybe different species even. Again leg bone hardly has a smell when burnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Young modern deer is my take. It isn't really all that small for a deer. The cortical bone in a leg would not be expected to contain as much collagen as an incompletely fused sacrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BellamyBlake Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 This looks modern to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Lol tried the burn test on a known cretaceous fossil and even it has a smell like the leg so going with the leg is fossilized vert isn't. Probably will take it to Arkansas to a guy that runs a fossil store have him look at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Probably still very old with the color of the leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 color is not a good indicator of age. When bones are fresh they are a very similar shade of yellow (and greasy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 A fossil from there would be mineralized. Tap it lightly with a spoon. It will make a tone similar to table china if it's a fossil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Ok I'll hold onto it anyways it's still a cool bone lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Tapped it with my fingernail makes a sound close to a plate. Don't have china so not sure there. Vert sounds like a thud like ...bone lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 getting it looked at in person is always good. And i would also take your potenial pteradon wing fossil as well. I dont know enough about bird like fossils except to expect hollow bones I would also want to consider the possibllity of it being rib Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Yup already planned on having him look at it or sending him the pictures...probably won't get out there for a month or more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 I did find a picture online of a pteranadon wing and it looks so much like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 54 minutes ago, Drizzt0000 said: Tapped it with my fingernail makes a sound close to a plate. Don't have china so not sure there. Vert sounds like a thud like ...bone lol You have a metal fingernail, or a keratin spoon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 So use like silverware? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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