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A friend of mine in New Mexico has this vertebra in her studio, and asked if I could identify it. My phone charger is 5.5 inches across, for scale. It certainly looks like an atlas vertebra, but I am stumped regarding the species. The foramenae and occipital facets look pretty diagnostic, but my comparative skeletal anatomy is really rusty and I need some help with this identification! It doesn't look like horse, cow, moose, or elk, or mammoth, or mastodon, or ground sloth, for that matter. It is most like Bison bison, but not quite typical, I don't think, but I don't have access to a research collection to compare. It doesn't look quite like the Bison antiquus or latifrons specimens for which I could find pix - looks most like Bison priscus, but that seems unlikely. I don't have the provenance on this. It looks like there was some carnivore scoring perhaps, some weathering, but I'm not seeing butcher marks in my pix. I took quick pix on the fly, not realizing it would stump me! I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have!
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From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds
Found out of the Oligocene Chandler Bridge Formation. Very pleased to find it in such incredible condition.-
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Summerville South Carolina whale or dolphin atlas vertebra?
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi all, I found this piece of bone in the Oligocene Chandler Bridge formation in an area just outside the town of Summerville South Carolina. Is this potentially one of the halves of a whale or large dolphin atlas vertebra?- 5 replies
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Are there enough diagnostic features left on this atlas vert to determine an identification? I found it on the Brazos River in SE. Texas Pleistocene gravels
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