darrow Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Bird, reptile, ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 If I was cataloging that, I would call it mammalian bone. It is to badly beat up and eroded for any kind of identification. Claws are made of the same thing as your hair and fingernails and does not fossilize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 It does not resemble a claw core to me. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 when something like that has all the cortical bone worn off around it, and the cancellous bone is all that you're seeing, it's a likely thought that you are not seeing the original outside shape of the thing, because it's been tumbled a lot against stuff that wore it down. depending on it's shape and the relative density of various parts of it, the tumbling may be biased in a manner to wear one end more than another and completely change the shape from the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) I do not see claws there. Sometime keratin in the right Konservat-Lagerstätten fossilizes Edited March 2, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Semantically, we should differentiate between "claw" and "claw core"; I think the question asked is whether it might be the latter. My opinion is "maybe"; it's rather well worn for me to go much further. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Hmmm...it is eroded enough for only an approximate ID. Can't say for sure but in the third picture I think I can see some of the honeycomb structure. Where did you find this? What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I do not see claws there. Sometime keratin in the right Konservat-Lagerstätten fossilizes Oh sure bring a Lagerstat into this My bad for making an over generalized statement. You are correct! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 Hmmm...it is eroded enough for only an approximate ID. Can't say for sure but in the third picture I think I can see some of the honeycomb structure. Where did you find this? Here's a couple better pics. I found it at a spot I frequent on the Texas City dike, Galveston Bay Tx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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