cowsharks Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Found a small 1" long bone recently along Calvert Cliffs. In the pic it's the small bone just under the small lower cowshark tooth. Wondering if this is either a land mammal toe bone or a possible toe bone from a bird? Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Nice find, but the experts will need better pictures from multiple angles. Edit: Forgot to tag @Auspex. 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...
Darktooth Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Can't help with the bone but I wanted to comment on the teeth. You got some nice cowsharks, sandtigers, hammerheads, angel, tigers, a nice thresher and some others. I would say you did well. Congratulations! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 A good day's work! Some great shark's teeth and a mystery bone! Nice! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 A straight metatarsal means it lives a curatorial life, and it’s rather long for a rodent toe. I vote bird. “...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...
Andy B Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Beautiful find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 If I'm not too late to the dance, I'd like to see the other side, too. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Thanks folks. Here's a few more pics of the mystery bone. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 And for those that like to see the shark teeth... the rest that were on that plate in the first pic. I had to sift a lot of beach to get these. Got a nice assortment, including a couple of small Angel sharks, sharpnose, C. macloti, a few nice tigers and hemi's. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamb55 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Nice finds Daryl. I love the cowshark teeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Can’t help with the ID but great finds Daryl Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 @MarcoSr may be able to help with the bone. He's done quite a bit with bird bones, if it is one. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/2/2018 at 6:57 PM, Auspex said: If I'm not too late to the dance, I'd like to see the other side, too. Hi @Auspex. I posted additional pics for you to review. thanks, Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, cowsharks said: I posted additional pics for you to review. Good job! I believe you have an avian pedal phalanx. They are pretty generic in form, and would be real difficult to ID more closely than "Subclass: Neornithes" "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Auspex said: Good job! I believe you have an avian pedal phalanx. They are pretty generic in form, and would be real difficult to ID more closely than "Subclass: Neornithes" Chas, could I ask what feature allows you to ID it as bird vs. a mammal bone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 A combination of the narrowness (in top view) of the distal condyle "spool", and the broad, double kidney-shaped depressions in the proximal end-view. That, and the proportions: pretty skinny for a 1" mammal toe bone, IMO. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 1:42 PM, SailingAlongToo said: @MarcoSr may be able to help with the bone. He's done quite a bit with bird bones, if it is one. Jack Telling complete mammal toe bones apart from bird toe bones is not easy. If the bone is broken the bone wall thickness helps a lot. If in doubt, I send them to a researcher. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvert Cliff Dweller Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Hi Daryl, Here is a similar bone that I would like identify. By the way I see you had a excellent day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvert Cliff Dweller Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 More Pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laditz Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Calvert Cliff Dweller said: Hi Daryl, Here is a similar bone that I would like identify. By the way I see you had a excellent day. Looks like a 1st phalanx. My best guess would be cervidae, though it could be sheep/goat. On your second picture you can see the epiphysis (joint end) is missing, indicating it was probably not fused to the bone yet and the animal was relatively young when it died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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