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Peace River Mammal Fossil ID Help Needed


ColoradoRuss

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Hello all. I've tried and tried to get the ID on this on my own and just don't have the experience.  I dug this out of a gravel layer in the Peace River in Hardee County, Florida two weeks ago (early January, 2023).  Some of the contours seem like an astragalus (horse, camel, ...) but the more museum photos I see the less sure I am.  Thanks in advance for any information you are willing to share. The pics are a little overexposed (intentionally) to show the shape, so the color appears lighter in the pics than in reality.  Thanks!

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Sorry, Russ . . . I've dealt with many, many bones from the Peace River, but I don't recognize this find.  If it is a common bone -- like an astragalus -- it is too worn to identify.

 

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http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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I’m gonna go against the grain here and say it looks like a vertebral process to me.

Fossils? I dig it. :meg:

 

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