dbrake40 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 For those of you that hunt rivers and creeks in the Midwest how often do you find horse remains? These three humeri were all found within a 2-mile stretch of a river within about a two year period - along with many other random tarsals, a femur, multiple tibia, and several teeth... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas.Dodson Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 I assume we're talking modern remains as well? I don't come across them in North Dakota streams and rivers that often but in Illinois I'd find horse remains while doing research pretty often. Brought back a skull from this past summer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrake40 Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 Yes. ~modern. Although we have found Pleistocene fauna fossils in the are including horse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRatKing Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Yep all relatively modern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrake40 Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, LabRatKing said: Yep all relatively modern. If you hunt rivers and streams in the Midwest how often do you find horse remains? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRatKing Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, dbrake40 said: If you hunt rivers and stream in the Midwest how often do you find horse remains? In my neck of the woods, various ice age era horse parts are as common as gravel. Modern horse and cow are so common as to be annoying. Try what is known as a burn test on these- if the results smell like burned meat/old socks/rancid roadkill, they ain’t fossils just hold a lighter to one edge for about 1 minute and sniff. No worries, if they are fossils, it won’t harm them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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