Venice, FL find

[Kyle Cooper]

Could I get help with an ID? I found this fossil could use some help understanding what anatomy I'm looking at, and possibly from what.

[Fossildude19]

Unidentifiable chunk of bone.

[Shellseeker]

18 minutes ago, Kyle Cooper said:

Could I get help with an ID? I found this fossil could use some help understanding what anatomy I'm looking at, and possibly from what.

This bone has greater length than width.  Do you provide 5 photos of the length and zero photos of the ends ?

DO you see those little holes in the bone? They are there to reduce the weight of the bone and while not a perfect match, are more likely to be in marine mammal (Whale, Dolphin, manatee) than in other mammals...

Do you notice that your bone has a "waist"... a narrow width across the length of the bone.. 

 

 

Under the blue lines , it looks flat... is it ?  Between the blue lines, it looks like a valley has been carved out... Has it ? I ask because some marine mammals have a deep "V" shape down the length of their vertebra.  I ask because some marine dolphins have such a valley in their vertebrae.

 

This is NOT to say that I think it likely your bone is a Dolphin Vertebra....maybe only a 20-25% possibility... That is why we call it "an unidentifiable of bone"

 

[Kyle Cooper]

Where the blue lines are it is flat and smooth, I've attached pictures of the ends, also there is a "socket-like" recession that is 1/4 inch deep the size around of my fingertip 

[Shellseeker]

3 hours ago, Kyle Cooper said:

Where the blue lines are it is flat and smooth, I've attached pictures of the ends, also there is a "socket-like" recession that is 1/4 inch deep the size around of my fingertip 

 

Here is the reason why your find will remain an unidentifiable chunk of bone.  Look at your find and look at the photo above of a Dolphin Vertebra. If we are to state that this is a Dolphin Vertebra, then we have to believe the Dolphin Vertebra above transformed to the fossil bone you found.

I do not think anyone could make that claim with any sense of certainty. It is not satisfying, but it is too frequently true.