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Found this today snorkeling the Tar river in Eastern NC. Look like they could be antlers. Any chance I could get help with an ID?

 

 

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Hi Pungofossils! They look like really dirty sticks to me (sorry), but maybe you can post different angles of the two. The Tar river is in Cretaceous/Paleogene rock, and I don't think animals with antlers existed during those times, and the shape doesn't looks like antlers either. Plus, the material doesn't look like horn material, but bark.

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Took the end off off one of them and found out it is some kind of hard sand deposit inside. Still not sure what it would have been...? Pic attached 

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Yes, i agree with that id.

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11 hours ago, Macrophyseter said:

Hi Pungofossils! They look like really dirty sticks to me (sorry), but maybe you can post different angles of the two. The Tar river is in Cretaceous/Paleogene rock, and I don't think animals with antlers existed during those times, and the shape doesn't looks like antlers either. Plus, the material doesn't look like horn material, but bark.

 

Macrophyseter, the Tar River has layers of Cretaceous, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene depending on where you are in or near the river, including it's tributaries. Most places in eastern North Carolina regardless of the age of thew formation have Pleistocene overburden where the occasional Pleistocene mammal fossil is found. The Tar River is about 215 miles long, so it covers a lot of ground so to speak. 

 

Curious, have you ever personally collected the Tar?

 

And yes, I agree they are infilled burrows, possibly shrimp or crab. They are rather common in some places here in the eastern part of the state.

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