Worn/Damaged Savannah River Dredge Spoil Odds/Ends

[James Savage]

Hello everyone

Below are some finds from my last trip to a dredge spoil island that has Miocene to modern marine and terrestrial fossils.  The dredge and river action unfortunately beat up the fossils and make it hard to ID.  The scale on the white graph paper is 1" for the boxes.  Photo quality a little off due to the poor winter sun angle.

 

Large Un-numbered Bone:

Possibly a mammoth or bison femur?  Weighs more than 3.5 pounds.  It looks like the head of a femur and a heavily worn limb bone.  May be too far gone to ID.

 

#1:

Two small mammal (likely cetacean) periotics

 

#2:

Edge of a Turtle shell?  Just didn't see the typical interior turtle shell texture

 

#3 

Broken coprolites?  Interesting interior compositions on them

 

#4

Worn turtle nuchal shell?

 

#5

Wild guess-fish tooth in jaw?  Has a smooth enamel on the pointy end that tapers on both sides to a broken point

 

#6

No idea-Probably unidentifiable?

 

#7

Small broken horse scapula?

 

Thanks for looking.  Hopefully the photos stay in order, with an outdoors photo followed by another photo indoors due to the outdoor light this time of year.

 

Be happy to add better photos if requested.

 

 

[Shellseeker]

#7 could be anything... a broken fragment of bone... but I do not this the "split" in the bone is the result of breakage... Note the split in this Llama Cannon bone,  horses have a similar split,  so I am thinking it is a fragment of a cannon bone,  mammal species not determined.

 

# 2 are marine mammal petrosals... 

You should compare to :

 

I think the others may be not identifiable ... but as soon as I say that... the TFF membership sometimes amazes me..

[James Savage]

Thank you very much for looking and commenting.  I always enjoy reading your posts and thank you for your expert opinion.