Dean 43 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Found in a small creek bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigereagle12345 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 It looks to me like part of a vertebrae, however, the photos are very blurry so it is a bit hard to be sure. Could you please provide some information about the general area it was found (State, near by town or formation would be useful) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Too blurry photos, maybe on phone it's OK, but on a big screen My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrannosaurusRex Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Photos are much too blurry to be definitive, but I’m leaning towards it being a concretion or just a rock. I see no texture to indicate bone in the current photos. As stated by TigerEagle, please provide provenance, ie location, age, and any helpful information such as those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Very blurry on the photos - back off of the item a bit. However, I have to agree that this looks more like a nodule or concretion, than a fossil bone. 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...
Plax Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 maybe a vert in a concretion? Wild guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 One side seems quite flat? Maybe saw marks? Photos 1 and 2. If it's been saw cut, pork chop bone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean 43 Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Aberdeen washington chehalis river system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I see nothing boney here. No bone texture, and not the right shape. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean 43 Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Ok im going to cut it in half i will send new pics . it looks like bone feels like bone but im not sure myself so who knows lets open it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean 43 Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Well no suprise there bone it is for the guy who said thats not a bone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Ok it is bone. Is it fossilized?, does it pass the burn test? the thinness of the cortical bone would be ok for a vertebrae, but I cannt make the shape match; I look at that very irregular surface and think wrist or ankle bone. It really is beyond me. @Boesse, @Harry Pristis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean 43 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 I personally think it's an ankle bone I thought vertebrate to begin with but what's it from not a horse not from a cow not from a donkey or from an elk or deer or bear or from a pig. I've never seen a bone like it I'm really stumped. It's got an odd shape to it. The only thing I haven't researched yet is whale I don't believe it is a whale sea lion I don't think so seal no it reminds me the texture of a beaver and has hairs on parts of the bone little black ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean 43 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 It past the burn test and i looked again no hairs on it my mistake .i also hit it against tile it tinged what other test is there that i can do .new to all this but it sure is a lot of fun learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 It's not a bone that I recognize, sorry. 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...
Brandy Cole Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 If you're certain it's mineralized and you found it in Washington State, I almost wonder if mammoth ear bone is a possibility. Maybe very unlikely, but it's a really unusually shaped bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Curious how/what you cut it with? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Hi, To me it looks as if some of the original surface was cut (or maybe eroded flat) to begin with. I marked what I think are cut surfaces in white, red is your new cut as I understand it. I think the upper smooth surface shows no corticalis in your cut, its spongiosa all the way. So cutting it should have given you a feeling for how much it is mineralized? Best Regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 well, darn... I hate when I am wrong. But yes, once cut, it is certanly a bone. But what...? I have no idea? Did it cut like modern bone or like a rock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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