New Members Getula70 Posted March 3, 2015 New Members Share Posted March 3, 2015 I found this in my house and either my kids or myself found it outside here in south central Wisconsin. Looks like the head of a leg or arm bone. Hopefully the provided pics are good enough for an ID, thanks for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 sorry, but you've got a quartz/chert nodule, probably a glacial erratic that formed somewhere else to the north of us and transported down in one of many glacial periods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 It looks rather like a talus bone to me (a foot bone that articulates with the tibia and fibula). Someone else who knows much more about such will have to weigh in, though, as this is far outside my meager knowledge. "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...
New Members Getula70 Posted March 3, 2015 Author New Members Share Posted March 3, 2015 Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodney Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 To me it looks like bone from something. Rodney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Getula70 Posted March 3, 2015 Author New Members Share Posted March 3, 2015 Found in southern Wisconsin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I'm just weighing in on this one but to me, I think it's the cruelest piece of quartz I have ever seen. In NJ, we have horrible concretions and a lot of them are quartz and other volcanic materials. It's porous, (like you would look for in bone), but the material just doesn't look right. I'm looking forward to seeing what other people say about this. -Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Getula70 Posted March 8, 2015 Author New Members Share Posted March 8, 2015 Don't seem to get many opinions on this. Do I need better photos? Any help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I think you should add a few photos from different angles. Try a direct side view with the specimen in an upright position and then shoot it from the opposite side. After that, shoot it straight down at one end and then straight down the other end. I think Auspex is on the right track but it might be a wrist bone instead. In mammals with hands there are several bones in the wrist. As fossils, and when complete, they can look like interestingly-shaped rocks. With a little water-wear they look even more like just polished rocks. It does look like it could be bone. Don't seem to get many opinions on this. Do I need better photos? Any help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) It could be - maybe - a really water worn calcaneum. Or the very worn pisiform of a horse carpus. But it just doesn't look like bone to me. Edited March 9, 2015 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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