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Cathy C posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoCathy C has contributed specimen mFeM 84132 to myFOSSIL!
Cathy C posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 7 months ago
Cathy C has contributed specimen mFeM 84132 to myFOSSIL!
Dino bone
@smudge-smith if so that’s a pretty good find. What makes you say specifically dinosaur as opposed to fish, etc?
Well I don’t know for certain but it has the pros texture if bone… Were are you hunting?
porous not pros
@smudge-smith Cretaceous. Big Brook, NJ
probably Dino then. If marine beds then probably fish
Big Brook is a marine deposit. While that doesn’t rule out dinosaur, it also makes it much less likely. More likely is mosasaur or plesiosaur. In fact I have found a plesiosaur tooth there. However, there are no distinctive features on this chunk of bone that indicates what kind of animal it came from.
Thanks for your input @bill-heim. There’s definitely cool stuff there-recently found a possible labyrinthodont tooth in the same location. Need a good resource for bone and tooth ID.