Bakersfield find while digging at edge of parking terrace at Ernst.

[MrR]

Greetings all,

 

I found this fossil near the flat parking area at what's left of the Ernst quarries. When I came across an image I took of it, I realized that based on the shape of the left end, that it might be an ulna from a small mammal, or? It has a shape that is somewhat similar (heel-looking section) to a mysticete, Tiphyocetus Temblorensis ulna, that I found at STH a couple of years ago.

 

Or maybe it's just the remnant of of somebody's lunch from a couple of hundred years, the time it takes for something to fossilize (Joke)?  I remember it was a fossil, so please take my word for it, at least until I find it, at a later time, and discredit myself.

 

Any ideas based on formation, Bakersfield, CA Temblor, size, and shape?  If more images are required for good ID, I'll track the fossil down and add them. Many thanks. Cheers.

[Al Dente]

Might be part of a cetacean rib.

 

[MrR]

Interesting. Thanks, Al Dente! At least it may not be a completely unidentifiable "chunkosaurus". Nothing earth-shattering, I know, just a bit of down-time curiosity. Cheers.