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...what type of vertebrae these are? Dinosaur park fm. Both found near the same spot but are shaped quite a bit differently. Sorry I don’t have the tools to properly clean them, all I can really do is remove soft sandstone. I’ll separate them by two different posts. The first one has more of an hourglass shape whereas the second one is sort of hexagonal. 
 

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I'm afraid the answer to the title may be no, they are too incomplete. Those guys are pretty good though.

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10 hours ago, musicnfossils said:

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This looks like a caudal vertebra. The little nubbins on the bottom give it away. Even though they are mostly worn away. Those are the attachments for the chevrons on the tail.

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My guess is your weirdly shaped bone is part of the process of a vertebra 

 

Second guess cervical vert

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Definitely the largest caudal vert I’ve found then! 
 

Probably no way to tell what the cervical is from then eh? It’s from that same channel deposit as the other bones I’ve found, bunch of tyrannosaurid teeth and hadrosaurid teeth there so maybe one of those. 

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I am going to default to troodon's IDs on these.  He knows his stuff much better than I do.  

 

If you have found these in a channel deposit with different sorts of teeth, it sounds like you have found a multi-specific bone bed, so they are not necessarily related to each other.  Such sites are common in the Lance and hell Creek, and maybe also the DPF, although I have never tested this last statement.

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On 10/10/2020 at 8:14 AM, jpc said:

I am going to default to troodon's IDs on these.  He knows his stuff much better than I do.  

 

If you have found these in a channel deposit with different sorts of teeth, it sounds like you have found a multi-specific bone bed, so they are not necessarily related to each other.  Such sites are common in the Lance and hell Creek, and maybe also the DPF, although I have never tested this last statement.


yeah it’s got quite a few different animals in it actually. So far I’ve found turtle bones, tyrannosaur bones and teeth, hadrosaur bones and teeth, ornithomimid bones, croc bones, and possibly ceratopsian bones as well but I don’t know that for sure yet. e; I should also mention some dromaeosaur bones as well. It’s the full package. 

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