Monica Huebner Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Hey Everyone I found this at Twelve Mile Coulee. Any idea on what it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Femur? Cow? 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Monica Huebner said: Any ideas on what type of bone this is? I found it at Twelve Mile Coulee today. Monica, Welcome to TFF... it is a good place for bone identification and fossil hunters... You might look at this TFF Thread.. It has good photos of Bos/Bison Femur and Humnerus Edited April 13, 2021 by Shellseeker The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Hi, Please don’t send your ID request in two different posts! You already have answers in the other one. A little patience is needed for the specialists to give their answer. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Huebner Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 I did not mean to post twice. I’m happy to delete this if I could find a delete button. I am actually very patient. Just made a mistake posting this as I created an account yesterday and I did not realize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 TOPICS MERGED. Newbies make mistakes, and we need to allow for that. All is well on the Forum. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 I agree with the others in that this looks like the distal end (lower articulation) of a bovid femur (upper leg bone). The preservation is consistent with a sub-recent specimen - in other words, not a fossil - while the fracture appears to be a dry bone one, meaning the bone was broken post-mortem. This is significant, as that means this is not the bone of a butchered animal, but rather indicative of something else having happened to the bone. As most of the bone in engrained with dirt, but the fracture is not, for example, it looks like the fracture is a very recent post-depositional change to the bone. As such, it seem very well possible, also given its size, that this is a bone of a bison. 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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