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Some kind of joint bone? ID please.


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This was found behind my house in the woods in western TN, just outside Memphis. It looks to me to be the shape of a joint of some kind, and the underside has clear structures that look like marrow.

 

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The last images seem to show a fenestrate bryozoan, so I'm thinking it is not a bone. 

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8 minutes ago, Kane said:

The last images seem to show a fenestrate bryozoan, so I'm thinking it is not a bone. 

Kane, the underside where you see those structures also shimmers slightly (like with tiny crystals) under light. Would that also be consistent with bryozoan?

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I thought coral was a possibility also, but in looking closely at this one view, I think the area circled in red clearly shows it to be a fenestrate bryozoan as @Kane suggested. 

 

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+1 fenestrate bryozoan.

 

 

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