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Fossil ID help please


Alex92

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Please could anyone tell me potential candidates this could be from? Or if anyone has an idea of what bone this could be part of? Found in the Badlands in South Dakota 

10 inches in length 

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Hmmm, that is going to be a tough one I think.  Not a lot of distinguishing features there.  I could see it being part of a larger leg bone, maybe a pelvis (of something big), maybe even some part of a skull.  "Prehistoric" covers everything from  a century or two ago to the Mesozoic for that area (although my money would be on Pleistocene or younger).  Maybe @jpc will recognize it.

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Yeah, not much to go  on there.  It is big.  If I were a betting man, I would bet it is a piece of a titanothere.  Pelvis is my best guess.  

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