musicnfossils Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 ...what type of vertebrae these are? Dinosaur park fm. Both found near the same spot but are shaped quite a bit differently. Sorry I don’t have the tools to properly clean them, all I can really do is remove soft sandstone. I’ll separate them by two different posts. The first one has more of an hourglass shape whereas the second one is sort of hexagonal. #1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 #2 (with a comparison pic) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 Bonus fossil; this weirdly shaped bone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricWonders Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 one of @Troodon @jpc @LordTrilobite should be able to help. The second one kind of looks ceratopsian to me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 I'm afraid the answer to the title may be no, they are too incomplete. Those guys are pretty good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 10 hours ago, musicnfossils said: #2 (with a comparison pic) This looks like a caudal vertebra. The little nubbins on the bottom give it away. Even though they are mostly worn away. Those are the attachments for the chevrons on the tail. 2 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 My guess is your weirdly shaped bone is part of the process of a vertebra Second guess cervical vert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 Definitely the largest caudal vert I’ve found then! Probably no way to tell what the cervical is from then eh? It’s from that same channel deposit as the other bones I’ve found, bunch of tyrannosaurid teeth and hadrosaurid teeth there so maybe one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 I am going to default to troodon's IDs on these. He knows his stuff much better than I do. If you have found these in a channel deposit with different sorts of teeth, it sounds like you have found a multi-specific bone bed, so they are not necessarily related to each other. Such sites are common in the Lance and hell Creek, and maybe also the DPF, although I have never tested this last statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 On 10/10/2020 at 8:14 AM, jpc said: I am going to default to troodon's IDs on these. He knows his stuff much better than I do. If you have found these in a channel deposit with different sorts of teeth, it sounds like you have found a multi-specific bone bed, so they are not necessarily related to each other. Such sites are common in the Lance and hell Creek, and maybe also the DPF, although I have never tested this last statement. yeah it’s got quite a few different animals in it actually. So far I’ve found turtle bones, tyrannosaur bones and teeth, hadrosaur bones and teeth, ornithomimid bones, croc bones, and possibly ceratopsian bones as well but I don’t know that for sure yet. e; I should also mention some dromaeosaur bones as well. It’s the full package. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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