Theropod/ornitischian Toe Bone (?)

[TheItalianPaleo]

Hi everyone,

Notice: im italian, so understand my errors

 

So this is a dinosaur bone that, after one year of studying it, i never understand the species or the family of it.

 

I buy it in Italy like two years ago, and in the old Times i was sure it cames from a Theropod Vertebrae from Morocco, Kem Kem Beds (like the seller said).

 

After 5 months of studying, i have contacted Cristiano Dal Sasso ( the one who have discovered the first dinosaur of Italy and other ones) and he said that i it was probably a toe bone from an ornitischian one.

 

After studying, it’s technically impossible to be an Ornitischian and for three reasons:

1. In Kem Kem nobody have never found an Ornitischian dinosaur before, so if i am the first person to found this specimen, technically i have a new species of erbivore of Kem Kem

 

2. The Brownish color of the bone isn’t a characteristic of the Kem Kem beds, the Kem Kem ones are very red, and they have a rusty texture on it.

This brownish color remembers me the Hell Creek ones

 

3. It’s a toe bone, and not like Cristiano dal Sasso said, this toe bone is not similar to a toe piece of an herbivore/hadrosaur, is very small and very short to all the erbivores we know (6,4 cm in length, 4,9 cm wide and 5,1 in height)

 

 

So now i will give you the bone,i will apprecciate everyone opinion,

 

 

Thank you,

 

 

TheItalianPaleo

[TheItalianPaleo]

[TheItalianPaleo]

[TheItalianPaleo]

[LordTrilobite]

I don't think this is from the Kem Kem beds. It doesn't match the preservation there at all.

[TheItalianPaleo]

6 hours ago, LordTrilobite said:

I don't think this is from the Kem Kem beds. It doesn't match the preservation there at all.

So what you think it came from?

 

Like i said previously, i think is from Hell Creek

[Troodon]

The preservation looks like HC but you cannot definitely say its from there. It's not a toe bone actually looks like an astragalus 

[TheItalianPaleo]

1 hour ago, Troodon said:

The preservation looks like HC but you cannot definitely say its from there. It's not a toe bone actually looks like an astragalus 

The point is: do you have and idea where this astragalus come from? (The family)

 

by the say,what means HC?

 

Edited February 10, 2021 by TheItalianPaleo

[Troodon]

Hell Creek = HC

Hadrosaurid 

[SULLY]

I agree with Troodon 100%