Idelond Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Hey y'all... First time posting... I found this in Peace River, Florida... Is this a toe bone or what??? If so, from what??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planko Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 waitng for the big dogs to identify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 I'm thinking more something like a caudal vertebra. @Harry Pristis Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 2 hours ago, digit said: I'm thinking more something like a caudal vertebra. @Harry Pristis Cheers. -Ken I agree. Looks like it might be an elephantoid caudal vertebra. 2 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idelond Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) Thank everyone.... I can see the caudal vertebrate with the top part broken now..... It was found in Peace River, Florida..... So maybe a Woolly mammoth or a Mastodon caudal vertebrae??? Check out my other posts for more pieces from Peace River, Florida.... =) And thank u again... Edited May 5, 2021 by Idelond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 We don't really have the "woollies" here this far south. Our Plio/Pleistocene mammoth is the Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). I don't think a caudal vert is going to be particularly diagnostic to species (genus). So I'd probably label it as being from a proboscidean and leave it at that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_mammoth I've hunted the Peace for years and never found one of these. I've pulled many proboscidean caudal verts out of the ground working at the Montbrook site. Most of them are likely from our (relatively) common gomphothere. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idelond Posted May 6, 2021 Author Share Posted May 6, 2021 Thank u Ken.... I just started this fossil hunting thing and I'm hooked... I found some spots in Peace River that always pays off.... All I have posted I found in three weekends.... Plus so more I haven't posted... And hundreds of teeth... But not the megalodon yet. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Kind of reminds me of these caudals from a Giant Beaver I had found on line. Sorry no scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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