Craig Sorenson Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I found this and several other bones buried about 3.5 feet deep in a dry wash in SE Montana. It is in good shape, does not look like a fossil, but there was a fossil excavation going on nearby. Can someone help me ID and age it? I am thinking Bison, my family says angus beef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sorenson Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Here is a pic of the wash, the there is a rib bone showing about 3.5 feet below the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 See if this reference helps you. Click through the pages for other great info. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 As John's reference indicates, its a bison vertebra...a really nice one. We find many bison remains along side dino fossils. The bison bones are deposited in reworked Cretaceous clays. This would be the same in Eastern Montana. Its not possible to age isolated bison bones. They can be a couple hundred to a few thousand years old. The preservation depends more on associated minerals in the clays, etc. than age. Here's one that we found among dino remains just a couple weeks ago. Its partially silicified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Indeed, a bovid cervical vertebra. Hard to tell without a side view but I think it's from somewhere in the back of the neck. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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