More Claw cores, a bone, an ear bone and a vertebrae? - Peace River

[Meganeura]

Last IDs needed for the day - 2 claw cores, a bone I’m not sure on, what I originally thought was a broken armadillo osteoderm but now is looking deliberate (especially since I found 2 similar ones), and a chunk of a vertebrae

 

1) Starting with the armadillo osteoderm/ear bone:

 

 

2) Then the bone:

 

 

3) The vertebrae:

 

 

4) Claw core 1:

 

5) Claw Core 2:

 

 

Thank you very much in advance! @Harry Pristis @Shellseeker @Brandy Cole

Edited September 5, 2022 by Meganeura

[Brandy Cole]

 I'm very unfamiliar with smaller stuff or claws, so I'm not much help here.  But it would probably help others if you take end-on pictures of number two so that people can see any additional identifying characteristics there. 

 

Also, I think additional pictures would help with number three.  At first I wasn't sure from your picture how you got to vertebra.  Is it an end-on view of a partial centrum?  It's hard to tell from the lone picture you have here, and vertebrae are tough to ID even when you have a complete vert with lots of good pics.

[Meganeura]

17 minutes ago, Brandy Cole said:

 I'm very unfamiliar with smaller stuff or claws, so I'm not much help here.  But it would probably help others if you take end-on pictures of number two so that people can see any additional identifying characteristics there. 

 

Also, I think additional pictures would help with number three.  At first I wasn't sure from your picture how you got to vertebra.  Is it an end-on view of a partial centrum?  It's hard to tell from the lone picture you have here, and vertebrae are tough to ID even when you have a complete vert with lots of good pics.

Both very fair points - pictures have been added!

[val horn]

I believe the vertebra is a cetacean cervical  i still can not see it well but i am not familiar with other than cetacean cervical verebrae that are that thin.

 

i would also think the first fossil is a piece of marine turtle with that texture.

[Meganeura]

5 minutes ago, val horn said:

I believe the vertebra is a cetacean cervical  i still can not see it well but i am not familiar with other than cetacean cervical verebrae that are that thin.

 

i would also think the first fossil is a piece of marine turtle with that texture.

I would've agreed with you on the turtle shell - but as I said, I found another one that's very similarly shaped, and also the turtle shell I've found has had different patterns - and I've found enough to confidently say that this isn't turtle.

Also per the second picture - the holes you can see are very... deliberate as far as I can tell. They don't go fully through like normal turtle shell porous structuring does, and besides the few holes, the other section on that side is quite flat. 

Edited September 6, 2022 by Meganeura

[GPayton]

The second item, the bone, looks like a turtle vertebra to me. They're very thin and compressed due to their position along the inside surface of the shell. 

[Al Dente]

I would guess a mammal caudal vertebra for this one.

 

 

[Meganeura]

5 hours ago, GPayton said:

The second item, the bone, looks like a turtle vertebra to me. They're very thin and compressed due to their position along the inside surface of the shell. 

That was my initial thought, but google didn’t give me any matching examples - they were all shorter!

[Meganeura]

1 hour ago, Al Dente said:

I would guess a mammal caudal vertebra for this one.

 

 

Yeah, definitely seems to be a caudal vert, but I’m very much not sure what.