Dinosaur Bone Id

[Gary]

After the great help I received on my Dinosaur vertebra from the Isle of Wight, I am now showing a bone I found and would be grateful for any help with ID. It is from the same area, Lower Cretaceous. My first thought was illium but I am now tending more towards a possible partial sauropod scapula.

The bone is not complete but is broken (at the top in the first picture) . The first and second photos are from the 'side' the thrid from the end, which seems to show a concave 'socket'?? for the connecting of a limb bone perhaps??

Anyway any help would be much appreciated.

(the scale is in mm)

[Gary]

I have a lot of fragments of bone that were in the boulder the bone was originally in so it would have been about twice the size at least originally.

[velociraptor]

After the great help I received on my Dinosaur vertebra from the Isle of Wight, I am now showing a bone I found and would be grateful for any help with ID. It is from the same area, Lower Cretaceous. My first thought was illium but I am now tending more towards a possible partial sauropod scapula.

The bone is not complete but is broken (at the top in the first picture) . The first and second photos are from the 'side' the thrid from the end, which seems to show a concave 'socket'?? for the connecting of a limb bone perhaps??

Anyway any help would be much appreciated.

(the scale is in mm)

Gary,what does the internal cross section reveal? Has the bone a thick wall? What is the cell structure like? Large,small,large and small?

It looks like the distal part of a sauropod pubis,maybe?! Hard to tell with 1d photo's,of course On the other hand,you may be right,Gary.

[Gary]

Thanks for taking a look Velociraptor.

The first photo shows the broken section, I'll have to have a look tonight when I get home at the internal structure. I think it is quite thick walled with then a relatively small honeycomb bony structure of similar smallish sized holes.

The end which is at the bottom in photo 2 and 'end on' in photo 3 is slighly concave and looks lika an articulation point for another bone. Limb bone??

It was found in a block and I have a lot of other pieces of bone that were part of the original but I havn't been able to extract.

[velociraptor]

Pelvic elements are usually thin walled,in my experience.

Yes,looks like an articulation.Usually,there is evidence of wriggly channels,pits,present on the end surfaces of such bones.

Have you shown it to any paleontologists?

[Gary]

I havn't shown it to any professional yet. I found it on the Isle of Wight where there is a specialist Dinosaur Museum, I will take it to them next time I'm over there.

Thanks for looking.