SE Texas Chunk-O-Saurus or Big Toe bone

[johnnyvaldez7.jv]

I found this Saturday on a river gravel bank... it's completely mineralized and heavy. Sorry I didn't get a chance to measure it, but it is a fragment of something. I'm thinking it's from a large mammal but I'm not familiar with large toe bones and wondered if this might be one or if it's just a fragment to a large bone?

[rocket]

nice find! Part of a larger bone, but if it will be possible to find out from what animal it comes..., let´s wait

[johnnyvaldez7.jv]

@rocket Thank you.  Here are a couple of mammoth toe bones I just found to compare but I'll check out larger bones and see what I can find.

Edited August 7 by johnnyvaldez7.jv

[Brandy Cole]

If it is, I'd say maybe a proboscidean distal phalanx. But it's tough to find examples of those.

[johnnyvaldez7.jv]

@Brandy Cole

I found a site where a Columbian Mammoth distal phalanx is being offered for sale. Here are images for comparison

[Brandy Cole]

Yeah, I have a very badly weathered phalanx in my collection that I thought may be a distal, but yours looks a lot sharper on the distal end. Could be due to weathering as well.  Not sure.

 

 

[johnnyvaldez7.jv]

@Brandy Cole Even with the wear on yours the shape is still recognizable.  You even have that articulated surface curve on top that mine doesn't.