Roberto B Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) Hi everyone, I found this bone on the beach (mediterranean sea), it's really heavy, really like a stone and not like a bone. I suppose it could be a fossil vertebra of a big animal, it's similar to some cranial vertebrae (atlas) of cetaceans. What do you think could be? In the area of finding there are marine formations from pliocene to pleistocene. Dimensions: 11x5x3 cm. Edited January 2, 2019 by Roberto B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Welcome to TFF! Maybe @Boesse can help with this. 2 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...
LordTrilobite Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Partial atlas vertebra? Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 It is the fused Atlas +axis of a delphinoid dolphin. Probably modern. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto B Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Thanks for the replies. If can help to determine if it's a fossil or not, I've take some microscope pictures: the texture seems like re-mineralized (calcite like), everywhere in the small cavities I can see crystals (I think calcite/aragonite). It is possibile also for a recent bone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 32 minutes ago, Roberto B said: If can help to determine if it's a fossil or not, I've take some microscope pictures: the texture seems like re-mineralized (calcite like), everywhere in the small cavities I can see crystals (I think calcite/aragonite). Those are definitely crystals, so you got a fossil bone. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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