darkside8i8 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Unsure what this femur once belonged to please help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Looks like rabbit " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Looks like rabbit Ha! I was thinking that then thought ...wait...that's Australia. It must me some marsupial. But true...introduced bunnies galore Down Under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) I might be wrong... don't take my word for it, i wanna see a few more photos, different angles Edited October 8, 2013 by edd " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) Need more photos - is this a cast? It looks like a mold-line down the length of the shaft. Doesn't look rabbit-like at all - lacks the huge flange on the proximal end. Looks bird-like, but I'll reserve judgement until more pictures are forth-coming. Edited October 8, 2013 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost1066 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Rich that does look like a cast piece doesn't it? Seems to have some flash left on at the left end, too. Might not be but sure looks like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 The trochanter is very odd; I can't tell from the picture whether it is possibly damaged, or if this is the natural state: I've marked what I mean with a fine red line (you'll have to enlarge the thumbnail to see it). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside8i8 Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 it is a cast and ill upload some photos shortly...thankyou for the help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 (edited) What's the story of this bone/cast, darkside8i8? Edited October 9, 2013 by Ash "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside8i8 Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 my uncle was a geologist and he gave them to us http://www.flickr.com/photos/78351770@N07/10201917146/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/78351770@N07/10201806874/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/78351770@N07/10201903595/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/78351770@N07/10201800914/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Did he not tell you anything about them? Is it something he found, and a museum made a cast for him after he donated it? Where was it found? The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside8i8 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 Unfortunately i do not know much about this cast. I had a look at rabbit femurs and yes although similar it doesn't quite look the it same. If it does belong to a bird, i honestly would not know where to begin to identify it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 darkside, you are fortunate to have in your city one of the best avian paleontologists in the world: Pat Rich, at Monash University. Get in touch with her, and she will be able to tell you what you'e got a cast of. Rich The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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