John K Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 a friend of mine recently acquired what was described to him as a piece of mammoth bone, dredged up off the floor of the North Sea: any way of telling for sure it's mammoth material? If so, any clues to where on the animal it's from? I've asked for better photos...
bocafossil Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 It is a piece of bone from a large animal and mammoth material is found in the North Sea, but I don't know how you could tell for sure.
fossilized6s Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Don't quote me on this, but im 99% sure you won't be able to find out who this belonged to from such a small fragment. But being so big for a "small" fragment that doesn't have any real defining characteristics says it came from a big animal. Also i know a lot of Mammoth material comes from the North Sea. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG
Cole Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Don't quote me on this, but im 99% sure you won't be able to find out who this belonged to from such a small fragment. But being so big for a "small" fragment that doesn't have any real defining characteristics says it came from a big animal. Also i know a lot of Mammoth material comes from the North Sea. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Cole~ Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. Plotinus 204 or 205 C.E., Egyptian Philosopher
paleoflor Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 [...] any way of telling for sure it's mammoth material? If so, any clues to where on the animal it's from? I've asked for better photos... [...] Don't quote me on this, but im 99% sure you won't be able to find out who this belonged to from such a small fragment. [...] This is definitely not my area of expertise. However, there are several people within the FOSSIEL.net (Dutch forum) community that are specialized in bone material from the North Sea, and its identification. While some of them certainly also frequent TFF (and may answer here), perhaps it is worth posing this question on the Dutch forum (they have an English-spoken subdivision). Searching for green in the dark grey.
fgiarro Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Hi- The shape of the fragment, quite enlarged on one end, resembles a bit a Mammuthus ulna (also the size may fit it well), but that's just a humble guess, the specimen is too fragmentary to tell it for sure- greetings, Fabio
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