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Was found by my father in Hemet California. Looks very similar to a triceratops nose horn

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is it heavy or more like a modern bone?

When I look close to the pic I would think its fossil and bone, very cool

never had a tricertatops-horn myself, so cannot compare

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I wasn't aware that there were cretaceous rocks in California, but it does look like a ceratopsian horn. 

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The Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks near Hemet, California are granitic.  There are Miocene and Pleistocene deposits in the area.

 

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Interesting...it does not have the surface texture of a Ceratopsian horn and no Ceratopsian has yet been discovered from California only Baja California.

For those interested there is a good book that talks about the Dinosaurs of California

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The book identifies these dinosaurs being found, most are partial elements, teeth or tracks.  

 

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In San Diego County by Carlsbad, closer to Hemet,  elements of an Ankylosaurid was found has bloat, floated in, and described as Aletopelta coombsi

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Partials of a shoulder spike were found so that's another possibility.

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These finds were close to the shore so that's a big issue..

 

Unless someone could identify this as something belonging to a more recent individual it may be of interest to the Natural History Museum of LA and I would contact them

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Hmmm... looks fairly horn-like but it is missing the typical texture of canals that ceratopsian horns have.  The thing looks pretty worn, so maybe the canals are worn off, which canhappen.  And the preservation looks very much like typical Lance Fm preservation.  But then if it really came from an area of post Miocene rocks, it is not a ceratopsian horn.  I am looking a little closer and it seems to have the somewhat random bone pattern of a horn. 

 

Bobby may know but I don't know how to get his attention with the at thingy.  

 

If I had to say something, I would be more prone to say that it is a horn, but that its provenance is wrongly labeled.

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@jpc, just type the @ sign and start typing the member's name (no space in between).  It should bring up a list as you are typing and you can select the member.  

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Could it be from one of the weird Miocene skulls?

 

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Hemet is chock full of Pleistocene mammal remains. No dinosaurs. I'd be willing to wager this is from a very large bison horn or from some other Pleistocene land mammal.

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