mossy bone

[austinswamp]

Good evening, I found this at a creek in Austin Texas and doesn't resemble most of my mosasaur vertebrae. 

[austinswamp]

[Darktooth]

A long time ago I pulled something out of my ear that looked similar to that.

[Miocene_Mason]

I’d call it a chunkosaurus, though vert is possible.

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Darktooth said:

A long time ago I pulled something out of my ear that looked similar to that.

Umm, eeew!  Some things just aren't meant to be shared Dave.

[Tidgy's Dad]

I agree. 

It's a nice piece of bone, but hard to know from what. 

Or it may be something Dave found in his ear. 

[Bobby Rico]

I don’t think it is an ear bone +1 chunkosaurus . 

[JarrodB]

Looks like a beat up mosasaur tail vert. I have a rock garden full of them. lol

[ynot]

4 minutes ago, JarrodB said:

Looks like a beat up mosasaur tail vert. I have a rock garden full of them. lol

With no original surface structure remaining, how can You tell what it came from?

 

I go with the chunkasaurus ID.

[austinswamp]

27 minutes ago, JarrodB said:

Looks like a beat up mosasaur tail vert. I have a rock garden full of them. lol

Congrats 

[JarrodB]

1 hour ago, ynot said:

With no original surface structure remaining, how can You tell what it came from?

 

I go with the chunkasaurus ID.

When you find numerous ones each trip at NSR you can kind of tell what they were. What do you think @believerjoe?

[Coco]

Hi,

 

15 hours ago, Darktooth said:

A long time ago I pulled something out of my ear that looked similar to that.

Beurk !

 

Coco

[believerjoe]

2 hours ago, JarrodB said:

When you find numerous ones each trip at NSR you can kind of tell what they were. What do you think @believerjoe?

 

Mosasaur caudal vert with all the outer bone tumbled away.  Convex on one end and concave on the other.  See indications of where the lower processes would have attached also. Can’t give a species though as it is too far gone.