ThePrehistoricMaster Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Hi everyone, hope you can help with this ID problem. I bought a pile of fossils from the Kem Kem beds in Morocco. It included a lot of random stuff, but one particular fossil caught my eye. There was a little bone locked in a "ball" of rock. I couldn't really make out what it was, so I removed the rock and out came this (look at pictures). To me it looks like a vertebra... Could it be from a dinosaur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 It looks like a caudal (tail) vertebra and cannot rule out from a dinosaur. Can you take a picture of its top, where the processes would have been. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrehistoricMaster Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Here you go: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Not the picture I was looking for the flat side that is facing the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrehistoricMaster Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Oh, sorry. Here you go again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks centrum are very difficult to ID since the processes are usually the diagnostic element. I think you are looking at either crock or theropod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 If I found it in our Alberta Cretaceous deposits, I'd think it was a Dino: theropod caudal...a few positions from the tip. However, this is just an educated guess..can't tell the texture, etc. I don't know the Dino's of that formation Vertebrae can be hard to identify unless distinctive. If we were out for a day and found 20 vertebrae...10 would be identified wth certainty to theropod, ceratopsian etc., another 8 to 'probably'...always a couple that are ??? One trap we can fall into is not having a correctly identified specimen to compare it to. Also, nothing to identify specimens beyond family to to a genus level unless found in situ with associated specimens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrehistoricMaster Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Ok, thanks for the help and info guys. I'm hoping it's a dino. That would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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