Help with ID of a vertebra

[Luis Garza]

Hi

I hope you are well.

I need your help to identify this vertebra, I bought it in a garage sale in San Antonio, TX, it was covered with sediments that I peel out.

Thank you for your help.

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

It might help to know if the bone feels light or heavy, and how large it is - but I'm leaning towards some kind of mammal vertebra  

-Christian

[-AnThOnY-]

Plesiosaur maybe?

[jpc]

the curved zygapopheses says mammal lumbar....

These blue surfaces.  

 

 

[Luis Garza]

3 hours ago, The Amateur Paleontologist said:

It might help to know if the bone feels light or heavy, and how large it is - but I'm leaning towards some kind of mammal vertebra  

-Christian

Thank you for your reply.

It is very heavy.

6 inch lenght.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

Wondering if Pleistocene bison.

 

[LordTrilobite]

2 hours ago, jpc said:

the curved zygapopheses says mammal lumbar....

These blue surfaces. 

This. Mammal lumbar vert indeed.

 

That shape of curved zygapophyses seems like bovid to me.

[jpc]

deer have them too.  But I don't know if the shape of the curve is family specific.  

[Luis Garza]

Thank you very much for the info.

[LordTrilobite]

On 12/11/2018 at 8:47 PM, jpc said:

deer have them too.  But I don't know if the shape of the curve is family specific.  

I do know that rhinos do not have them at least.

This is just speculation on my part, but perhaps it's specific to even toed ungulates?

[jpc]

I think you might be onto something LordT... maybe an artiodactyl characteristic.