SeaGee Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hi, I am hoping to find out what kind of animal this vert is from. Any help is much appreciated! thanks, SeaGee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrocklds Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 looks like a mammalian sacral vertebra. but more than that i can't tell you. Brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 i dont think i have ever seen a marine mammal vert that looked like that so im thinking land mammal, but being that I find verts from the miocene it could be marine mammal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hmm.. One thing I need to bring up, or so I think, is: Are you sure it's fossilized? I can see some tan, meaning it may just have a lot of creek coloring. Is it light? Can you scratch it with a fingernail? When you take a match up to it, does it smell like burnt hair? As far as ID, not a clue but I'm sure someone here knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hmm.. One thing I need to bring up, or so I think, is:Are you sure it's fossilized? I can see some tan, meaning it may just have a lot of creek coloring. i see some brown but we get that all the time here in Maryland, and im sure he has determined that it was fossil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Man Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Thats very interesting looking. Any ideas on the formation? or general area it was collected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hmm.. One thing I need to bring up, or so I think, is: but one thing that i do notice is that on the ends of the processes the bone does not look fossilized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 it actually looks pretty similar to a gator sacral vert to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 The whole feel of it, the grainniness(if it were found in a creek, it wouldn't likely be grainy, more smooth), the patchy tan, it just all seems unfossilized to me.. But we'll never know till he lets us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverphoenix Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 It looks fossilized to me--that lighter part you see is sand in the bone pores, plus some reflection from the light. I would guess it's marine, but I have no clue what it is beyond that---very odd looking, must be rare--looks like some of the verts I find though. Either way, it's an awsome vert and it'd be interesting to see what it's from. I'd say definitly fossilized, but beyond that I'm stumped. A lot of that material that comes out of newly exposed formations (from dredging, storms, etc) in the ocean isn't sand and gravel-blasted like a lot of FL river pieces---it may have been buried for a great while and just recently exposed. The wear it does show is on the protruding portion, which is normal for pieces that come out of the water (tumble action). I would bet money it's a beach find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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