tracer Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 hi. i'm tracer's cat. he's gone. don't know where. but he left this thing, and i want to know what it is and what it is from, please. meow, meow - oops - always lapse into my native tongue when i try to talk technical. i might consider trading this thing for a bale or three of catnip if he doesn't show back up soon, but i figure i need to know what it is. can you help? thanks a million, humans. p.s. - i think those are tj's fingers. creepy, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Tracer needs to change his pass word Galveston Island 32 miles long 2 miles wide 134 bars 23 liquor stores any questions? Evolution is Chimp Change. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain! "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Meow meow meow, meow meow; meow meow! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawooten Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Ahhh Tracer’s cat is on the prowl and he ate some of Tracers fossil vertebrate. Kitty you’re in trouble now mister. The best days are spent collecting fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Not sure what that is - but, my best guess would be part of an atlas. Not sure that it's from a mysticete, it could be proboscidean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 Meow.rowr. I was hoping it was an ankle bone like a calcaneus or astralagus or navicular or sompin, cuz I'm an ankle biter at heart, and mammoth ankle biters RULE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 It's a carpal or tarsal. Only two things possible, I'd say - proboscidean or sloth something really big like Eremotherium. The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsmull Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Hey Tracer, could it be humerus or femur from a mastadon ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 nah, the articulating and other surfaces don't seem appropriately structured. i think rwhite's observation is probably accurate and i'm just sort of trying to narrow from there, but haven't gotten the "smoking gun" close-up photos of comparative material located yet. i got a sidebar comment that it might be a mammoth astragalus, and again, i do feel like that concept's in the right direction. i may end up having to go to a houston museum that has a mounted mastodon to examine it in detail. by the way, it has come to my attention that the family cat was apparently getting on here and posting in my absence. i hope that he didn't annoy ya'll as much as he annoys me most of the time. i've told him that i'm having him re-neutered if he gets on here anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickeless1 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Heh, re-neutered. Love your posts, or your cat's posts. You may want to keep an eye on your family's potable water supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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