totallydigsit Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Hey all! (Part 2) Requesting your help identifying a some fun larger bone fragments found by @jcor246 and me down on the ol’ Peace River, FL. (For brevity, separate ID posts featuring the non-toothy specimens collected on this outing will follow shortly.🆔🆘) Thanks, Jena and Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 (edited) Nice day of non tooth stuff! 1 is a chunk of bone. Not much I see otherwise to distinguish. 2 -4 are all dugong rib bones. Various wear and decay. 5 is a scaphoid. Probably camelid. 6-10 need more photos of all the sides and articulation locations. Here are a few photos I use for quick ID of shape before I go into the rabbit holes. Bison Deer Tapir Horse and a couple extra handy images from Harry. Last is a Camel. Cow. Horse Edited May 1 by Balance 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Thanks for posting all those balance! I’ll have to save all those for future reference. 1 2 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallydigsit Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 On 5/1/2024 at 4:15 PM, Balance said: Nice day of non tooth stuff! 1 is a chunk of bone. Not much I see otherwise to distinguish. 2 -4 are all dugong rib bones. Various wear and decay. 5 is a scaphoid. Probably camelid. 6-10 need more photos of all the sides and articulation locations. Here are a few photos I use for quick ID of shape before I go into the rabbit holes. Bison Deer Tapir Horse and a couple extra handy images from Harry. Last is a Camel. Cow. Horse Thank you so much @Balance for your input and these incredible resources! WOW 🤯 Camelid- incredible and not something I would have considered! Definitely a personal reminder of just how much more biodiversity there was among prehistoric mammals than today. Quick follow-up question for you and @Harry Pristis regarding bone #1. Given how big this fragment is and the large spongey core texture, I’d assumed this must be from the XXL megafauna- whale, mammoth, mastodon. Is that a safe conclusion or would you consider other possibilities? You’re awesome. Thanks again guys! Jena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 On 5/1/2024 at 5:40 PM, Jaybot said: Thanks for posting all those balance! I’ll have to save all those for future reference. I agree! Thanks @Balance. Super useful post. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 I’m afraid I don’t have any ability to discern further. In order to become a massive piece of bone I would consider it probable it came from a much larger bone. When you get into bones of large scale you narrow down the mammals but there are still whales, tortoises … Jp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 4 minutes ago, Balance said: I’m afraid I don’t have any ability to discern further. In order to become a massive piece of bone I would consider it probable it came from a much larger bone. When you get into bones of large scale you narrow down the mammals but there are still whales, tortoises … Jp And giant sloths as big as an elephant, and giant bison. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 And mammoths, mastodons, rhinos... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Tigers and lions and bears, oh my!! 3 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...
totallydigsit Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 2 hours ago, fossilus said: And giant sloths as big as an elephant, and giant bison. Thank you! I knew they were big but had no idea their skeletal scale and bone density was on par with the xxl giants! Love those additional possibilities. Jena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallydigsit Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 1 hour ago, Brandy Cole said: And mammoths, mastodons, rhinos... Rhinos!! Yet another massive suspect I hadn’t considered. Thank you @Brandy Cole! Jena 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 @totallydigsit Haha, I missed that you had already included our mammoth and mastodon friends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Cute little buggers. Found a knee cap. Patella. That’s it. 😂😂 It’s sad and great how happy this thing makes me when I pick it up 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallydigsit Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 (edited) @Balance Not sad in the slightest! You’re clearly among friends- I personally find myself routinely blissed out and feeling grounded after handling even the smallest, smoothest of bone pebbles!! Haha. Ok… It’s late and I might be a bit loopy 😶🌫️😶🌫️ (or just generally prone to finding the profound in what most consider mundane haha 🥹🤓), but can we all agree that the fact we’re the first humans to hold in our hand any physical trace of some giant sentient being that once shared the waterways we still navigate today, but is so alien and ancient that it has never been seen by modern man, is incredibly humbling and downright mind boggling! Florida is a remarkably bizarre time warp. Most folks definitely don’t get touch megafauna and Megalodons on the reg like we do on The Peace. #blessed 🌀🌀🦣🦬🐫🦏🦈🐋🌀🌀 Thanks again, all! More detail pics and new boney bits to come. Best, Jena Edited May 16 by totallydigsit Post did not upload correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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