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A good find. Most of these are broken up by the churn of the river. I do not know why I thought these only came from whales. but this should be from dolphin.

It is also smaller at 29mm in diameter than I anticipated. So the question

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-- How small do these get?

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That is small, and nice!

I guess a vertebral epiphysis can be as small as the smallest centrum in a juvenile spinal column, ie:"Pretty small".

Yours here is about the size of the smallest I've found myself.

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Wait......that's not a cookie at all Jack! DON'T EAT IT!!!!

Cool find though!

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Very nice Jack, those are a lot harder to come by than the vertebra! And that is smaller than any I've found either: )

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Thanks for the responses.

An epiphysis is really rare where I hunt. Usually I only find a small section or 1/4 complete in an environment that has numerous porpoise vertebrae.This one has a story (unknown) to have died so young.

I was not very successful yesterday, digging test holes and running into old discard piles. We were close to "pack up and leave" time and this fossil shows up in a sieve containing 1 broken tiger.

One thing that makes our hobby so enjoyable to me is the fact that a rare find can show up at any time. Keeps me on my toes.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I find them on occasion but as you mentioned they are nearly always broken. I have a nice complete one that is about 6" in diameter. I sometimes come across some really large fragments.

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Hey Jack, that's a nice find! I havent been in creeks/rivers as long as some of you have and haven't personally come across one yet but I did try to convince Jeff that a 4" round dark phosphate disc I found last year was one. He didnt budge on my tentative ID a bit. He was right!

Thanks for showing us what a real one looks like! Regards, Chris

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