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 post Share on other sites
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 post Share on other sites
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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 Link to post Share on other sites
Osteobyte Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi Domas, This is a proximal radius from a large ungulate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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. Link to post Share on other sites
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 Link to post Share on other sites
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. Link to post Share on other sites
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. Link to post Share on other sites
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 post Share on other sites
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