Shellseeker Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Some good friends offered to take me hunting for a couple of hours today.. thank the Lord for good friends. It was only 2 hours but I found some unusual items... including a number of high quality dolphin small verts. Then this one showed up... unusual, meaning I have never seen one like it previously. It's a vertebrae and I thought this would be trivial-- just search the net for "fossil dolphin Axis Atlas vertebrae". No luck... So what is it ? Tail vert.? what? 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 looks like a dolphin tail vert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Good! Maybe now I can put an end to my head scratching on this piece too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rand95 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I cant help with the id on the fossil, but it looks unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 JUST got this photo from one of Bobby's sites. Take a look at last one on the right. Mine is .75 inch wide and then 1.5 inch height and 1.75 inch length. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 Continuing!!! I keep finding more stuff...!!! The Anatomy of the Late Miocene Baleen Whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine ; So whether this is whale or dolphin , it is one of the last 2-3 verts in the tail. I wonder what the small holes are for ... The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted April 20, 2023 Author Share Posted April 20, 2023 Just looking at some of my old posts, have some new questions....for @Boesse Just noted that I never flagged his ID. So, very similar marine mammal tail verts found in Florida and STH, Questions: Did Bobby ever name "Genus Y" ? What is the purpose of the 2 small holes in the Vertebra? This Vert seems very similar in dolphin and whale... Are there ways to differentiate... Thanks for any new responses... jack The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 WE sure did name "Genus Y" - renamed "Squalodon" tiedemani as Ankylorhiza tiedemani back in 2020: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(20)30828-9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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