Small rodent humerus ? Savannah, Georgia

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

Hello,

 

  I have what I think is a small humerus from a rodent of some kind ?  This is dredge material so it can range from Pliocene to Pleistocene.  Was curious if it was possible to determine the type of rodent.  I'm assuming it's too small for a capybara type of animal. @MarcoSr does this resemble anything you have seen ?

 

 

 

Cheers,

Brett

[ynot]

How about muskrat?

[caldigger]

As coincidence would have it Brett, I was just looking through some STH sifting finds and looky what I found. Mid. Miocene. 

Scale is in millimeters.

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

6 minutes ago, ynot said:

How about muskrat?

Ooooo .. I like the muskrat angle.  It is an animal that takes to wetlands ....

1 minute ago, caldigger said:

As coincidence would have it Brett, I was just looking through some STH sifting finds and looky what I found. Mid. Miocene.

Well . well .. the rats are out this evening.  Your bone is quite intact which is nice.  I might have to take some of this material from the site home to sift it. Seems like there are quite a few small bits in it .. I only spotted it black against the sand and only after kneeling down.

[MarcoSr]

2 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Hello,

 

  I have what I think is a small humerus from a rodent of some kind ?  This is dredge material so it can range from Pliocene to Pleistocene.  Was curious if it was possible to determine the type of rodent.  I'm assuming it's too small for a capybara type of animal. @MarcoSr does this resemble anything you have seen ?

 

Cheers,

Brett

 

Brett

 

I've found thousands of rodent bones from anthill matrix from my sons' Eocene/Oligocene ranch in Nebraska.  However, your specimen is much larger than what I see from the anthills which are bones of very small rodents like mice.  I donated all of the specimens and I only took individual pictures of jaws, teeth, vertebrae, and claws so I don't have anything to compare your specimen directly to.  So all I can say is it looks like a rodent humerus to me.

 

Marco Sr.