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is this a bird coracoid?


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I found this in Sacha's 'frog toe' matrix from the Indian River spoil island in Florida. It is from the Pleistocene Melbourne bone bed.

I recognized a similar bone in one of my books. Is it from a bird? If so, can it be ID to family/genus even? Auspex?

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Thanks for looking :)

 
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The silhouette is rather like that of the anterior portion of a shearwater coracoid, but all the specific details (procoracoid 'spur', furcular, scapular and glenoid facets) are absent, and it does not seem to be due to wear. I would look at parts from another critter.

"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!

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