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Florida Vert Id


Cris

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I have a liiittle tiny vert to see if you guys can ID. I have ideas of what it could be, but nothing I'm going to mention...Any ideas?

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It's very obvious that it's ball and socket when you see it. Sorry about not getting a great pic of the other end...I had one, but for some reason it causes the forum to glitch when I upload it. It locks up the upload screen. (not over 2MB)

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well, some articular and transverse processes are damaged or missing, so that hinders comparison/identification a bit. the spinous process is very tall for a snake, i would think. but the vert does seem kinda reptilian.

the lack of wide transverse processes could mean it's maybe a cervical vert? with no neural canal/foramen?

i'm guessing it's from a sail-necked lizard with no nervous system.

<sigh>

<his work here finished, tracer mounts his trusty dimetrodon and rides off into the vertebrate wilderness.>

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i would tend to go with snake, but i agree with tracer that the spinous process seems a bit too large...its either snake or lizard...

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