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Should Bone Cow/Bison/?


cthomp50

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Found this in the waters of a local North Texas stream.  I'm assuming it is a old cow bone.  But if you see something different, let me know!  I'll go search for the rest of it!

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That indeed looks like a bovid scapula to me! If you could take a picture straight onto the joint (left side on your first picture), that would make it even more clear :)

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Yes, that's Bovid.

Probably "just" cow. Could also be Bison, but maybe looks wider/flattened than this one.  Someone else might have one in their collection to compare :)

 

Still a nice find though!

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excerpt from E. Schmid. 1972. Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists. Elsevier, New York

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