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Don't Cringe, Help with Peace River Bone "Chunkasauruses" if possible


minnbuckeye

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I know bone fragments are hard to identify. But take a look and see if any info can be given on the samples posted today:

 

 1. These long bones are very hollow, hopefully bird in origin?????

 

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2. These are 2 heavy chunkasauruses, scapulas?? Can one tell terrestrial from aquatic?

 

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 3. This bone seems like a phalanx??? Again, terrestrial or aquatic?

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 4. A weird bumpy bone, lots of projections. Anatomically, I am having difficulty placing this one.  

 

 

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5. This boomerang confuses me: 

 

 

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 6.  Finally, this tiny thing, fish spine? Urchin spine? I don't even remember finding it. Then to think it made it from Florida to Minnesota in my luggage without breaking!!!! Makes it special.DSC_0173.thumb.JPG.bf37c4ec117c0e519edee8a9a4f492d3.JPGThanks one and all for assisting me on IDing my fossils from Florida!

 

 

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By any chance did you feel you should leave a generous tip because you just had time to get all your fossils packed and the room was trashed with scraps of packaging material ?

Happens a lot. :)

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I seem to remember seeing that last one elsewhere. 

Catfish pectoral spine if i remember correctly. 

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Could the boomerang be a partial deer horn? Last one does look like a catfish spine.

Life started in the ocean. And so did my interest in fossils;).

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3. Looks more like a vertebrae centrum.

4. Weird little thing, some marine mammals have those twisted bones. Or could be part of an antler.

5. This looks like an antler fragment.

6. Broken off spine of a fish vertabrae.

 

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I think 3 may be a vert as well Mike:) last one looks like a fish spine too

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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