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I found what I think is a large vertebrae in north Jackson county ky. I think the stone looked like marine deposits in the area I found it in. Is this a vertebrae? I think I can make out cortex bone on the edges in some places, artery holes, trabeculae under the cortex and a large area in the center of the bone for a disc.

 

If so what animal did it come from?

 

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I don't know the outcropping or locality, but might be weathered whale?

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It does have some interesting texture to it, but I would bet it is a geologic look alike.

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Has anyone mentioned geologic yet? :P 

Sorry, I'm with the other guys.

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Considering the texture shown in some of the side views, such as the 5th image, I think there is a possibility that this may be a worn piece of a trunk of a Carboniferous tree.  I say Carboniferous because of the collecting area, and because often such specimens are filled with matrix and only have the exterior preserved.  If it isn't that, then it is purely geologic in origin.  Either way, not a vertebra.

 

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Does have some interesting outside texture, but im going to say,,,   Rock-a-roo.   :)

 

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As you all mentioned, might be something other than a vertebrae but I have a strong feeling it isn't. I work with bone on a daily basis and know the texture which this item has. I have found castings in the past of trees which this forum helped identify, but the inside of that looks different and has no holes and structures like this new find does. I also found nothing else similar over 8 miles of hiking in that area that remotely looked like it.

 

The piece I found also has too many markers of bone (correct thickness of cortex, trabeculae like strucures, holes for blood vessels and concentric ring shapes) for me to think that the most likely explanation is geologic in nature.

 

Take a look at these vertebrae from other animals and then look again at my find. I think the piece I found was pretty weathered and knocked up which has made it a bit harder to make out clearly.

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Whale vertebrae:

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Shark vert:

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Plesiosaur vert:

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Mammoth vert

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Mammoth vert:

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Mammoth vert:

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My find:

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I made a video showing it from all sides and took a high res image of the surface of the object to show you the bone like details. Let me know what you think.

 

Click on this image then click full size to see the 5000 pixel version for max detail.

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Doesn't look like bone to me. :unsure: 

Looks like a sandstone/conglomerate concretion or nodule. 

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Sorry,It does not look like a vertebra to me either.

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