Fossilhunter218 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 My 8 year old son is turning into quite the dinosaur enthusiast and has begun to collect fossils. We are slowly learning the risks and joys of collecting. We found these three over the weekend. Any ideas what they may be? I was told the sandy orange bone may or may not be a dinosaur bone and the darker ones are from the Ice Age but they were not sure from which Ice Age animal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Hello! Identification will require location (nearest town) and a ruler for scale. If it is ice age as your tag indicates, it is not dinosaur but likely mammal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Welcome to the forum. Your middle bone may be dinosaurian. A more complete picture of the bone with more angles would help as well as what Peat Burns asked for is locality. Be as specific as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Where is AB? Alberta? Ali Baba? A Beach? Please indicate locations so the rest of the world knows what we are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 The sediment on the second bone looks like it could be from Kem Kem beds in Morocco. But as Troodon said, better photos are needed to make a good identification as well as location information to determine the age. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossilhunter218 Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 Thank you for the feedback. I will try and take photos tonight and post later this week. These pieces were bought in Alberta; I'm 99.9% certain they did not come this province. We have some really tough laws on digging and collecting. The seller did not know anything about the - what I'm going to call - Ice Age pieces. It is a true mystery. The orange one was labelled as a dinosaur bone from Morocco - Lord Trilobite you might be right; it may be from the Kem Kem beds. As I mentioned, I will have to take time tonight or tomorrow night to take, and post, better photos with a ruler this time. I appreciate your insights!! You have given me homework Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Maybe the third specimen is a worn proximal end of a humerus. (Equus?) " 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...
Fossilhunter218 Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 I apologize for the delay. I was finally able to retake the photos and prepare them for posting. I labelled each (Fig.1, 2, 3) with the location (two are unknown) and the length and width dimensions. I thank you all in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Yeah, if the seller said that orange bone came from Morocco there is little doubt that it's from the Kem Kem beds. The orange iron rich conglomerates and other gunk on it is pretty typical. So that's at least part of the mystery solved. Dinosaur is very much a possibility for that one. In the Kem Kem beds plenty of dinosaur remains are found all over. That location has sediments from the beginning of the Late Cretaceous, the Cenomanian. Some animals that are found there include the theropods Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Deltadromeus. There is also a Sauropod called Rebbachisaurus. There are a few Pterosaurs like Alanqa and Siroccopteryx. Then there are also loads of crocs, turtles and fish the size of cars. Your orange bone looks like it's part of a rib. Ribs are very difficult to identify even if they are complete. But, looking at the bone structure might give some clues. Crocs have much denser bones than most dinosaurs. And theropod dinosaurs have hollow bones. I can't really tell from your photos. But if the rib is hollow, there's a good chance it's from a theropod. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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