shark96 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Hi, i am new at this forum, and i would like that you help to identify this vertebrae. The guy that found it said that it was from a whale, but i am not pretty sure it is. I would like to know if it is from a whale or other animal; Also, if it is from a whale i would like to know the spicie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 not very good photos but i dont see a whale vertebrae i am sure somebody will recognize it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 not a whale... neck vertebra of a land mammal. I think it is too big to be deer.. I am guessing cow or horse. Rich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rylawz Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 looks similar to woolly rhino verts I have had but its not fossilized or even slightly mineralized so I think its modern. maybe rhino or a relative. lucky rind if it is rhino because they are hard to find and acquire as they are illegal. Post your Proboscidea!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Cow, me thinks. "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...
RichW9090 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Yes, a juvenile Bos. Equus doesn't have any significant neural spine on the cervical vertebrae. Rich The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 It's definitely not any kind of rhino. It could be cow, auroch or bison. Sometimes on the internet these kinds of verts are misidentified as rhino. I'm not as familiar with bovids as with rhino. But I think this is a neck vertebra. Depending on the age you could possibly eliminate auroch and bison. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 It is a fresh bone - note that the intervertebral cartilage disk is present, connecting the vertebra to the next epiphyseal disk. Since there aren't any bison herds in Mexico, that pretty much leaves Bos as the only choice. The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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