NJ cretaceous possible antler or bone?

[Fishinfossil]

Found in a NJ Cretaceous stream. Appears like it would be an antler or rib as it tapers out. Fossilized and doesn't seem to be modern. Any ideas?

[PaleoNoel]

Clearer pictures of the broken end would help us determine if it is a bone or not. However, I am not seeing the cancellous structure which would indicate bone, making me think it's more likely to be either a burrow infilling or concretion, both of which can be frequently found at Big Brook.

[Fishinfossil]

@PaleoNoel thanks for input. Zoom in on the second picture, you can see a fibrous bony structure. If not, I'll try and post another pic

 

 

[Fossil_finder_]

I think it is an antler, but it is likely modern.

[Rockwood]

It is a close call, but it doesn't look like antler or bone to me.

[The Jersey Devil]

It's a concretion

[Rockwood]

Don't feel bad. The list of those who have posed this question is long.

I'm on it. 

[Fishinfossil]

 

 

@The Jersey Devil @Rockwood   I appreciate the responses! Take a look at this closer if you can. With the hundreds of concretions Ive seen in Ram this just doesn't look like the insides of a concretion? Also, there looks like rodent bite marks on the side of it, which I'll try and post.

 

 

 

[The Jersey Devil]

With the new picture that really is a bone. Probably a modern deer. Very likely not cretaceous, the slight chance of Pleistocene always exists.

Edited April 3, 2021 by The Jersey Devil

[Fishinfossil]

Actually @The Jersey Devil and @Rockwood just looked at it again now that its dried out and though it has that spongy look there is a lot of that (pyrite)? fleck on it. The taste test makes it seem like bone to me, but who knows?!

Edited April 3, 2021 by Fishinfossil

[The Jersey Devil]

I don't see any pyrite on the given pictures. It could be the sand from the stream.

[Rockwood]

The texture may be close to that of bone, but I'm sorry, it just is not bone.

[Fishinfossil]

Thanks for the replies