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Great day, hunting with a friend,  warm, sunny.  Did not even need a wetsuit. and then unknowns!! I love unknowns because it gives me a chance to learn and study thesenewly acquired fossils.

First a tooth found by my hunting buddy.  I have no clue what this is..

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Next a medial phalanx.. almost 2 inches..IMG_0725MedialPhalanx1.jpg.1d5a1a776518f3be164afdeb75809fec.jpgIMG_0727MedialPhalanx1.jpg.afb00ddb5a531e993d7ea2e7c7d5016f.jpg

and finally a vertebral process.. I once found a Mammoth process almost 14 inches... this one is not that large...IMG_0715VertebralProcess.jpg.dc9c5db3e8ae002146c1f3731660fa74.jpgIMG_0718VertebralProcess.jpg.97fc30c95708feaa9284969526624733.jpg

In the same hole, I found a 3 inch Sloth Proximal Phalanx... Lots of bones today....IMG_0701SlothProximalPhalanxCrop.jpg.bb4b2efdd69874d5d25fbde483f59527.jpgIMG_0703SlothProximalPhalanx.jpg.20d551c4c9ac772069cfdcc1ba8bdf9b.jpg

 

As always, identifications, suggestions, and comments are greatly appreciated. Shellseeker

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13 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

The tooth looks like half a rear molar from a tapir. 

You are likely correct.  I is the round wear pattern that throws me off... I am much more used to oblong wear patterns... It might be a different , earlier tapir species..

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On bone #3, that I called a Vertebral process, it is actually a "neural spine" or spinous process or spinal process.  It occurs in horses, marine mammals and as far as I know in most mammals.

2 examples.... straight up off the backbone... not going to be easy to identify the specific mammal... I'll keep searching.

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Tall neural spines are present in lots of different animals, and can serve a variety of functions including display and supporting fat bodies. They’re pretty much always present in land mammals like horses that have large, heavy heads. Horses spend the vast majority of their time in a posture like the one in the image above; head to the ground, eating. It’s hard to keep balanced with that heavy head stuck out like that, and ligaments that run along the neural spines transfer much of the load throughout the vertebral column. The neural spines also serve as attachment points for muscles that move and support the head, neck, and shoulders.

https://valleyofthemastodon.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/fossil-friday-horse-thoracic-vertebrae/

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