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Bone pieces from the Banjaard


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Hi everyone, 

Here are 3 bone pieces I found last month on the Banjaard beach in the Netherlands. Not sure what any of these are. 

Their age is most likely Pleistocene, but it could also be Pliocene. 

Both terrestrial and marine are possible. 

Let me know if any of these remind you of anything!

Thanks in advance,

Max

 

Bone #1: 

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"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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Bone #2:

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Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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Bone #3:

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"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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If I were a betting man, I would say bird cervical vertebra and humerus, and I don't know on the last one.  

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5 hours ago, jpc said:

If I were a betting man, I would say bird cervical vertebra and humerus, and I don't know on the last one.  

agreee on vertebra & humerus.  Bird coracoid on the last one?

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16 hours ago, jpc said:

If I were a betting man, I would say bird cervical vertebra and humerus, and I don't know on the last one.  

Let's hope you'll never have to do that :P 

Thanks for the help!

 

11 hours ago, hemipristis said:

agreee on vertebra & humerus.  Bird coracoid on the last one?

Thanks! I don't know about bird for the last one... that'd have to be a really big bird! The ruler is in centimetres

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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#1 is an avian cervical vertebra, and #2 is an avian humerus. #3 rings no bells for me.

What there is of the humerus is very like that of a Loon (family Gaviidae), but not quite.

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"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

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>Paleontology is an evolving science.

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I wonder whether #3 might be a mammal cranial fragment? All those sinuses...

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12 hours ago, Auspex said:

I wonder whether #3 might be a mammal cranial fragment? All those sinuses...

That was my first thought too. Maybe @Harry Pristis can recognize it?

 

13 hours ago, Auspex said:

#1 is an avian cervical vertebra, and #2 is an avian humerus. #3 rings no bells for me.

What there is of the humerus is very like that of a Loon (family Gaviidae), but not quite.

Okay, thanks a lot!

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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