uscedisto Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Found in a Creek in the Low country of South Carolina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fruitbat Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Just based on the size of the thing I would lean toward a camel. It just looks too big to be a deer. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Looks bovid to me. Too large for deer, too compressed for camel. 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...
fossilized6s Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I agree with Harry. Camel metatarsals are very distinctive with their 'Y' shape. ~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...
uscedisto Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 Thanks guys. I find a lot of bison bones & teeth in that Creek so I'm not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpevahouse Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) The Flordia State Museum website has a good map of the range of the camel/paleolama in the eastern US. It's generally accepted their habitation range was the southern coastal area. Someone on a web site posted a molar they identified as camel found in Monmouth County NJ. The problem with such claims is they are not supported by any other documented finds or professional reports. To assume a single camel wandered almost a thousand miles north of it's usual range and died in NJ is tough to believe. Now, to say it's a caribou molar just might work since it looks like a caribou molar and caribou are a well documented ice age species of NJ. That I can believe but a camel....... It's possible camels ranged as far north as the coastal regions of the Carolinas, like horses. But I would research it before claiming a camel bone. Edited July 28, 2014 by jpevahouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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