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James Preston

@james-preston
Wisconsin
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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 week ago

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    Looks like iron or hematite

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 week ago

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    Looks to be a cervical vertebrae or neck

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 week, 1 day ago

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    Boy that looks like bone in the first, third and fourth picture. Your hand gives it scale. I would still say it looks like a fossilized femur to me, but of what I don’t know. I will do a little research and see if I can figure more out.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 week, 4 days ago

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    I’m kind of thinking femur, but not sure until I can see other side. I see what looks like the trochanteric fossa and the head of the Femur also the greater and lesser trochanter.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 week, 4 days ago

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    Size? Do you have pictures of the other side?

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    Glad to help. I lived all my life here in the wilds of Wisconsin and know the wildlife well. It’s fun to push my brain into areas I don’t have the knowledge about. Yours was such the case. I do however have the reference materials I need to cover the animal remains of the US.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    Ok I’m going to say Harbor Seal. Final answer.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    Used the book Animal Skulls by Mark Elbroch, for id.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    Not to sure what seals you have in your area but I’m almost certain a seal.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    Ok I think I have it. It has the same shapes and size of a seal. Going on what I can see on the second picture.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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    I can say it is the left side. Looking to see if I can id it

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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    Also the Mandibular fossa is present.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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    About dog sized. Larger dog that is.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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    The one on the right looks like a bird wing bone.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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    Looks like a sphenoid bone of a mammal. The bubble like bump is the auditory bulla or ear area.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 month ago

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    Feeding trails. A trace fossil

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 month ago

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    Large ungulate looks like

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 month ago

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    Looks like the elbow end of a humerus

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago

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    That is where the knee is.

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    James Preston posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago

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    Femur

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