North FL toe bone identification

[TheFloridaHerper]

Hi all, I found this bone while diving a North FL river, mostly Pleistocene fossils with some eocene stuff mixed in and found this. Knee jerk identification is a toe bone from a felid but would like some other opinions on potentially species level identification. 

[C2fossils]

I'm thinking camelid? @Balance @Shellseeker

Edited November 29, 2024 by C2fossils

[C2fossils]

That curve is interesting though.....

Maybe a felidae actually as you said

 

 

[Shellseeker]

Something around 2 inches in Florida during the Pleistocene would be Smilodon...  It is too large for Jaguar and that's about it for Pleistocene Florida Large Cats.

 

Go search the internet and see what comes up for "Smilodon Medial Phalanx"  and "Smilodon Proximal Phalanx" or send photos to the University of Florida fossil identification service.  They will tell you. 

At just around 2 inches,  I think it is a Smilodon medial phalanx,  but I am not a Paleontologist.