ShawnG Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Can someone identify what species of whale this is and how big the whale might have been it is from Aurora, North Carolina. I got it at fossil show the bottom is 6 inches wide 5 inches high the top is broken so I cant get a actuate measurement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Welcome to the Forum! I think, it might be a modern whale vertebra, but I'm not a specialist in this domain. Please wait for other opinion. " 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...
ynot Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 According to @Boesse cetacean vertebrae are not diagnostic to species. (If I remember correctly.) 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...
Troodon Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 The preservation looks like what comes out if the mine in Aurora. Not sure you will get a species ID like ynot said but Boesse will provide you the best response. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Yeah, that light grayish color is consistent with Yorktown Fm material. And ynot is correct: it's difficult to ID isolated vertebrae; this is some kind of a mysticete or perhaps a sperm whale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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