New Members dannbethrfriends Posted June 12, 2022 New Members Share Posted June 12, 2022 My daughter and I went hunting in the North Sulfur River near Dallas, Texas. She pulled this strange bean looking bone out and I had no clue what it could be. After lots of googling, it seems clear that it is a patella of some sort given the faces on the back. The closest looking thing I have found was a black bear patella for sale, though that specimen was significantly smaller than ours. I did run a "burn test" to check for extant collagen and didn't detect any burning smell. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I think it looks like a patella, too. It seems a bit narrow for mammoth, but definitely from a larger animal. @Harry Pristis @Brandy Cole @fossilus@garyc 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Possibly camelid??? Maybe camelops sized? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I don't recognize the patella, but at ~3 inches, I'd start eliminating medium-large possibles. The bone seems remarkably simple to be from a familiar land mammal. 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members dannbethrfriends Posted June 14, 2022 Author New Members Share Posted June 14, 2022 Thanks for the thoughts! We wandered around the local natural history museum and thought it looked an awful lot like a camelid on display as well! Maybe that's indeed the ticket. I'm sure etsy never gets an id wrong, but it does resemble a supposedly camelid patella on sale there too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 This is probably a good candidate for an identification request to Richard Hulbert. He certainly has access to a large collection of comparative material. @digit 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Indeed! Miocene-Pleistocene mammals are smack dab in the middle of Richard's wheelhouse. I'd consider sending Richard an email with a couple angles of the suspected patella with the ruler for scale. He's always busy and gets ~100 emails/day but now that the Montbrook field season has suspended for the summer he may have a bit more time to plow through his inbox. As here on the forum, a non-trivial percentage of the fossil ID requests he gets are in fact not fossil at all (he too sees an unending stream of Florida "dinosaur eggs"). I think he enjoys it when he actually gets images of a real fossil. Contact info can be obtained here: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-voices/richard-hulbert/ Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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