GPayton Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I found this small bone on my most recent trip to the North Sulphur River. I know the river produces Pleistocene material from the river terrace deposits every once in a while and this bone looks completely different from all of the Cretaceous vertebrate fossils I've seen in the river before (mosasaur, turtle, fish, etc.) so I assumed it must be Pleistocene in age. In fact, it looks exactly like the heavily-mineralized Pleistocene bones I find near Houston. The dark brown color, how smooth and heavy it is, and the high-pitched clink noise it makes when it's tapped by anything metal are all characteristics I'm used to seeing. I could tell right away that it was some sort of wrist or ankle bone, but because I've only handled astraguli and calcanea before I didn't know exactly which one. An hour of searching here on the forum allowed me to narrow it down to a scaphoid but beyond that I couldn't get any more precise. The only pictures I found that seemed to match the closest were scaphoids from bison and camels. Can anyone here confirm an ID one way or the other? I'll tag @Harry Pristis, @Shellseeker, @garyc, @fossilus to get some better-trained eyes on this. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/54729-odd-bunch-of-bones-from-the-peace-river/ This thread has some discussion of scaphoids that may help, but honestly I've never worked through the differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 It seems vaguely scaphoidish, but I don't recognize it beyond that. I'd probably label it as "unid. carpal". These bones are devilishly difficult to sort. 2 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...
Shellseeker Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Harry Pristis said: It seems vaguely scaphoidish, but I don't recognize it beyond that. I'd probably label it as "unid. carpal". These bones are devilishly difficult to sort. I agree with every word Harry said... Here is a thread that ended with an ID for Bison Scaphoid.... Your find has some similarities, but also differences... Despite this success, I do not feel comfortable discussing scaphoids... 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 You’re definitely on the right track, but I would not even hazard a guess. I can only echo what the others have said 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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