Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Hi there! I found this piece while walking a beach on lake Champlain in the adirondack Mountains, anyone know what the hell it is from? My first thoughts were a scapula? I don’t have the slightest clue about this stuff, I’ve found lots of cool things while metal detecting, and hunting for arrow heads, but this is perplexing! Maybe it’s nothing cool, or maybe it belonged to champs great great grandpa Thanks everyone ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 When I saw the top image I thought whale ear bone but the second image is confusing. They are the same fossil right? Can we have more images? It seems it could be a whale bone looking at the wider area on google. @Harry Pristis might know. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Hi John, yes same piece, just turned around in a different direction, ill post more pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 53030990337__4BF924BF-76F1-418F-85D2-03F2ABB23BDD.MOV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 6 minutes ago, Lang said: 53030990337__4BF924BF-76F1-418F-85D2-03F2ABB23BDD.MOV I can’t open the link. Might be my iPhone not being compatible tho John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 It's a pelvis. excerpt from E. Schmid. 1972. Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists. Elsevier, New York. 4 " 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...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 @abyssunder any clue as to what it came from ? @JohnBrewer the link was just a video of turning it in a 360 degree to see the entire piece. Website isn’t letting me upload another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, Lang said: @abyssunder any clue as to what it came from ? @JohnBrewer the link was just a video of turning it in a 360 degree to see the entire piece. Website isn’t letting me upload another Try YouTube if you have an account John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Try this link @JohnBrewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 23 minutes ago, Lang said: @abyssunder any clue as to what it came from ? @JohnBrewer the link was just a video of turning it in a 360 degree to see the entire piece. Website isn’t letting me upload another The paper he has shown says equus (horse). I'm not entirely convinced it's a fossil. Hold a flame to it and if it smells like burnt hair, if it doesn't it is a fossil. The only two fossil bearing formations I know of are the Chazy reef (no bones in that) and the Miocene clays from the Champlain sea in which I would not expect to find many horse bones. 1 “...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...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 It doesn’t smell like anything to me when I held a match to it? I’ll need a second opinion on that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Ok I feel really stupid asking this and I’m 99.9% sure the answer is no, but I would like to go to sleep tonight knowing this is definitely animal and not human correct ? I know ridiculous but I’ve watched way too many horror movies haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 I'm not familiar with the fauna from your area, but it looks to me that your specimen might be close to bison/bos. " 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...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 18 minutes ago, Lang said: Ok I feel really stupid asking this and I’m 99.9% sure the answer is no, but I would like to go to sleep tonight knowing this is definitely animal and not human correct ? I know ridiculous but I’ve watched way too many horror movies haha I can tell you this is not a human bone with 100% certainty. Human pelvis is very different. 1 “...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...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Very cool! I’ll have to stop by and chat with one of the local historians in our area. Thanks for all the info!!! Thanks for the relief that it is animal !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 7 minutes ago, Lang said: Very cool! I’ll have to stop by and chat with one of the local historians in our area. Thanks for all the info!!! Thanks for the relief that it is animal !!! Definitely do that, if it is a fossil it's a bit strange. Maybe some other younger deposits are along the sides of the lake. Good Luck! “...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...
abyssunder Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 comparative image from here 1 " 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...
Lang Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Maybe it’s just that color from being exposed to the water and elements etc? Thanks! I’ll have to check back in that area again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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