MilesofTx Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Brazos River gravel bed Sealy, Tx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 bone it is. cool colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Not enough there to tell for sure what it goes to, too many possibilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Maybe enough shape to ID the bone, if not the critter (not by me, though). "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...
Guest Nicholas Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I'll leave this one to Harry, other than bone I have no hope in telling what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer1 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Brazos River gravel bed Sealy, Tx.ok this is probaly hmmmmm, ah ha bone for sure, if this helps ,to small for deer and its the top pelvic leg,hmmm front leg hmmmgot it, canine wolf for sure structure of the marrow is spaced to far for cat , not mention to big, unless bobcat maybe. any way i go with coyote or wolf canine.front leg where it joins the hip, or pelvis. also i have gravel for sale check the trade room or my posts. god hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 This is a juvenile beaver femur which the distal end had not fused to yet. Refer to top bone in picture. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer1 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 This is a juvenile beaver femur which the distal end had not fused to yet. Refer to top bone in picture. that was my next guess also i have gravel for sale check the trade room or my posts. god hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Brazos River gravel bed Sealy, Tx. Good quality images, Miles. If you would crop your images a bit tighter, they would be more accessible to some of us. See the suggestions for posting more useful images which I've appended here. this scrap of bone appears to come from near the proximal end of a horse femur, perhaps an Equus sp. horse (but that Equus ID is based only on probabilities). Suggestions for posting images: Do you have editing software that came with your camera or with your scanner? Use the image-editing software (or download shareware at http://www.irfanview.com/ ). You can be as creative as you want to be with the software, but the following basic things will improve anyone's images. LIGHT IT UP. Use as much ambient light as possible to reduce shadows. Halogen bulbs are better for photography than tungsten filament bulbs. The new compact flourescent bulbs come in a "daylight" (6500K) version that you can use in any (non-dimming) fixture. BRIGHTEN AND CONTRAST. BRIGHTEN the image until the fossil appears slightly washed, then adjust the CONTRAST until the fossil is bright and sharp and is a good color-match. Practice this until you get a feel for it. CROP, CROP, CROP. Again, use the image-editing software to crop the image to only what is pertinent. Leave only a narrow margin around the fossil. The more of your kitchen counter-top in the image, the smaller the fossil image will be. REDUCE THE FILE SIZE. The images directly from a camera usually are too large for posting directly to a forum. You can constrain the proportions of your image to produce exactly 500 KB (I routinely use 700 - 800 KB for my images now). First posted Sep 21 2007, 02:46 PM http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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