Geo-Reinier Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Found this specimen at a site in High Wycombe, England within Clay-with-Flints Formation approximately 1m below existing ground level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Could very well be a horn core. The bottom end looks unusually flat. Can we see a picture of that straight on? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo-Reinier Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 The flat side baffles me, perhaps cut by man? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 On 3/9/2024 at 10:54 AM, Geo-Reinier said: The flat side baffles me, perhaps cut by man? Where is the pic Clear Lake asked for? Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Cropped, enlarged, and brightened. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Hi. I agree this resembles a horn core. For a bovine horn core (which I think is the first option to exclude, especially if its really cut) it seems unusually solid, I would expect it to be more pneumatized. Not sure about how that changes through ontogeny though. Best regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Is the material brittle? To me, it looks like a modern horn core from a horn that was cut from a relatively young cow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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