mat3k Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Greetings from Argentina; found my first fossil, I`m pretty sure that it`s a whale epiphysis; but wanted to know if ti is possible to ID the species...? Location : Patagonia, Puerto piramides, Chubut, Argentina https://www.google.com.ar/maps/place/Puerto+Piramides,+Chubut/@-42.586614,-64.2642427,1609m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xbe02de2db616900f:0x6fe8cad4c2a2c841!8m2!3d-42.5701796!4d-64.2787391 Dimensions : across 12,5 cm height 11 cm width 0,5 cm Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Can You post side views? Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Always wanted to visit chubut, maybe someday. Anyway, of its possible to ID, @Boesse can do it. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Welcome to the forum. I think your ID is right despite looking like a Stone Age biscuit John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat3k Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 On 8/4/2017 at 4:46 PM, JohnBrewer said: Welcome to the forum. I think your ID is right despite looking like a Stone Age biscuit I guess thats why people call them cookies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertramp Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 intervertebral disk? https://www.google.it/search?q=intervertebral+disk+cetacean&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK9s6E6MLVAhUkI8AKHdGkBvsQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=638#imgrc=_ ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertramp Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 20 minutes ago, mat3k said: I guess thats why people call them cookies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Large cetacean vertebral epiphysis - not identifiable to species, sadly. Most vertebrae are not identifiable even to Mysticeti v. Odontoceti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat3k Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 thx, I thought it would be very difficult.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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