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'Grey' bone/wood fossil found in Suffolk, UK.


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Second of two similar posts, this one I'm calling 'grey' to try to avoid confusion.

Found near Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK.

I have use displacement to come to the conclusion that the density is 2.6.

Has possible tools marks, circular or near circular indentations.

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Bone. The marks here look like bivalve borings. 

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I'll go with Rockwood on this. At my collection locality, you do sometimes see bone with evidence of croc bites where the tooth impressions are circular but you'd expect to see some compression damage around those marks. These are clean which indicates boring and bivalves (contemporary or modern) are the usual culprits. 

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Thanks both.

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Any ideas what kind of bone, what kind of animal? Must be something quite big I guess.

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15 minutes ago, dan_3183464922 said:

Any ideas what kind of bone, what kind of animal? Must be something quite big I guess.

There's nothing diagnostic there that I see. I just Googled the area geology which puts the age at Pleistocene so I'd guess at mammalian of some sort. 

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