dirtdauber Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Collected this odd-looking bone fragment as float in a creek in south-central Alabama. The creek bed is Upper Cretaceous (Santonian), Eutaw Formation. The fragment is 4.75" (9.5 cm) long and about 1.75" (4.5 cm) wide at its' widest. I appreciate any help offered. Thanks. Edited April 17, 2014 by dirtdauber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 It looks like a mandible of some sort. The tooth sockets (if that's what they are) suggest herbivore. Sorry i can't help more, but im not too sure of what is found near you. This is right up Rich's alley! I would post Bison, Horse and Deer lowers, but being Cretaceous it really won't help.... ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Oh wow! I'm pretty sure that's a fragment of a hadrosaur jaw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Oh wow! I'm pretty sure that's a fragment of a hadrosaur jaw! Yuppers. Fits the part. Excellent find...now to find the rest of it. Possibly Hypsibema missouriensis, known from the Ripley Formation (and is the Missouri State fossil). Edited April 16, 2014 by PFOOLEY "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Awesome! Im glad this got ID'd so fast! Nice find! In the famous words of Rich, "i don't do dinos". ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Great find! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Man, you are livin' la vida loca! "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...
JohnJ Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Oh wow! I'm pretty sure that's a fragment of a hadrosaur jaw! You've made this ID before. I thought it looked similar to another member's find. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 WOW! Thanks for the ID Xiphactinus and others! Didn't enter my mind to check dino bones before you pointed it out. Sure looks like a section of hadrosaur jaw. First dino fragment I've collected. Not a common find in this part of the country. Again, thanks for the ID and comments. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opisthotriton Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Part of a juvenile hadrosaur dentary. Cute sized animal. Go find more!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 WOW Excellent find!! Looks like a FOTM candidate. It's one thing to find a Hadrosaur tooth but a jaw is awe some Thanks for posting It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 WOW Excellent find!! Looks like a FOTM candidate. It's one thing to find a Hadrosaur tooth but a jaw is awe some Thanks for posting Thanks, but too late for FOTM entry. It's been sitting on my shelf since December. Opisthotriton -- Thanks for narrowing it down to a juvenile dentary. Appreciate it. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opisthotriton Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 That's good, actually - I was torn about having to decide between voting for your juvenile hadrosaur dentary or that beautiful plesiosaur basioccipital! You can retroactively have my December vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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