Crazyhen Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 This is from Hezheng, Gansu in which large amount of mammal fossils were found. Does it look like the end of a femur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Then what do I know, but I looks awefully "holey" to be a femur bone. Wouldn't be very structurally sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I don’t think this is a bone... “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Looks more geological to me... Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 If it is bone, it is certainly not a femur... too many weird hollow areas. Maybe a very well worn fragment of an elephant skull. But it is really weird. Maybe it is a coral? Or maybe not. I am leaningon bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Looks like worn bone to me. I agree with jcp, possibly a small part of an elephant skull or some other large mammal. Only the smooth large holes do not seem worn, so I think a good ID is unlikely. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 It looks like a bone with borings. See reference below. S. Hopner, M. Bertling. 2017. Holes in Bones: Ichnotaxonomy of Bone Borings. Ichnos, Vol. 0, No. 0: 1–24 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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