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Not a normal bone found in Greenvillle, NC


Steve D.

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Found in GMR, NC yesterday during a 1 hour quick dip in the mucky water... (cold).... I've found lot's of whale bones here before but this looks different from anything I have found before... almost looks like a patella bone. I'll take whatever thoughts anyone has! Thanks!!! 

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7 hours ago, Steve D. said:

Hey All! 

 

Found in GMR, NC yesterday during a 1 hour quick dip in the mucky water... (cold).... I've found lot's of whale bones here before but this looks different from anything I have found before... almost looks like a patella bone. I'll take whatever thoughts anyone has! Thanks!!! 

For Comparison,

Photo of Dugong skull plate in this thread; @Harry Pristis might recognize

 

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@Steve D. just so you are aware. Looking at your tags for this post you have "miocene pliocene cretaceous" There is no Miocene at GMR. There is Cretaceous, Pliocene and Pleistocene. To the best of my knowledge there are no surface deposits of Miocene in North Carolina. The Pungo River Formation at Lee Creek is about 90 feet? below the surface.  Not scolding, just informing.

 

Your bone, very interesting. Definitely not a piece of the "normal" looking bone pieces from there. I am not aware of any dugong material from there, but it does have the basic shape and texture of the post Jack linked to. 

 

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This is the occipital condyle and part of the exoccipital bone from the back of a skull of a baleen whale.

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On 3/20/2022 at 12:02 PM, Boesse said:

This is the occipital condyle and part of the exoccipital bone from the back of a skull of a baleen whale.

Thank you sir!!!! Labeled and stored away! 

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