johnnyvaldez7.jv Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I found this today here in SE Texas...the river is down so I thought I'd check the same ole spot...found a bunch of pieces and this cool little one. Actually it's a decent size...hadn't found one of these yet...I just don't know what it is or what it might be from? It's about 4.5 inches total length...could it be bison or something else as big? I took a top, front, back, and bottom picture...then a whole bunch from different views cause I really didn't know how to place it best for an ID. Edit: could it be a cervical vertebra to something? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 ID aside- I must say it's nice seeing so many fantastically clear and structured photos in fossil id this regularly now 1 3 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 It's a nice sized vertebra. Looks to me to be a cervical (neck) vertebra. Identifying vertebra to species, especially partial ones, can be tough. Not sure of ID, but in terms of orienting it, what you might call the 'front' or the cranial side, (the side that would point toward the head) is your twelfth picture down. But rather than have the bulbous part on the right hand side of the photo it would typically go bottom center. Here's a picture just for comparison to show how a vertebra would normally be oriented in pictures. I agree with Jared. Your pictures are always high quality and enjoyable. Hope this helps with the orientation question. The three views shown are a) top (dorsal), b) front (cranial), and c) back (ventral). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, Brandy Cole said: Hope this helps with the orientation question. Like, the way a shotgun helps with that whole aiming thing ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 @Rockwood Yikes, sorry. Guess I was still half asleep when I posted. A is ventral view and B and C are cranial views of different vertebra. All horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 7 minutes ago, Brandy Cole said: @Rockwood Yikes, sorry. Guess I was still half asleep when I posted. A is ventral view and B and C are cranial views of different vertebra. All horse. No. You had it right. I noticed that my response kind of came out reversed. It's all in good fun though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 @Rockwood I was just horrified to realize how badly I mis-labeled the picture! No more posting without coffee from now on! And I'm pretty sure shotgun metaphors are always appropriate in Texas. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 @ClearLake The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Well, that is a nice piece. @Brandy Cole is correct, it looks like a cervical vertebrae of a relatively large animal. It looks too elongated to be a cow (and therefore probably a bison also, but I'd have to look closer at some online pictures). It has more of a horse shape to it. A little later on I'll take the pictures out and see if I can line it up with a horse or perhaps rule that out. Unfortunately, my comparative collection on large animals is pretty limited 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 32 minutes ago, ClearLake said: It has more of a horse shape to it. A little later on I'll take the pictures out and see if I can line it up with a horse or perhaps rule that out. I knew you could make a comparative observation on horse. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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