D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Dear Guys, I have found one very specific bone fragment which is very hard to me to identify, it is from Late Pleistocene sand layers of Varena town, South Lithuania. The wider part of bone has very strange joint relief and I do not know which animal is this. Please help with ID of this fossil. Best Regards Domas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXV24 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Hi, Looks like the end of a large limb bone but apart from that I have no idea what animal it could be from. It's large and Pleistocene so it could possibly be a horse or bison. But unfortunately the state the bone is in, being worn and damaged, makes saying anything other than a possibility difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 @Harry Pristis John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 33 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said: @Harry Pristis Thanks for the vote of confidence, John, but there's not enough of this femur remaining to offer even a low-confidence identification. 1 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...
Osteobyte Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi Domas, This is a proximal radius from a large ungulate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 I agree. It's a partial Radius revealing the proximal end. Try to compare with these drawings: excerpt from E. Schmid. 1972. Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists. Elsevier, New York. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Ya' know, radius was my first thought, too. But as I studied the images, I realized that the bone end is not symmetrical enough to be a radius from any easily-identified taxon, perissodactyls and artiodactyls both. Look again at those images, and compare with these line-drawings: 1 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...
abyssunder Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 You know better than me, Harry, for sure, but I don't see the Fovea capitis and the Trochanter majus. Probably they are damaged. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 1 hour ago, abyssunder said: You know better than me, Harry, for sure, but I don't see the Fovea capitis and the Trochanter majus. Probably they are damaged. You are absolutely correct, abyssunder . . . Not about what I know, but about the diagnostic features being damaged. The fact that we can't agree even on which bone this thing represents is testament to the degree of damage. 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...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 Thank you very much. I would think it is horse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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