🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Large bone

[Tesorodeoro]

Bear hunter’s dogs packed this back in far Northern California/Southern Oregon vicinity. It’s heavy and has an obvious socket or joint on one end. Guesses have been a whale bone, large oxen, Woolley mammoth..what do you think?! Doesn’t seem petrified.

 

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[GlowingArtist]

Can you place a photo of the entire object please?

 

[DownEast_Detecting]

Can you place a photo of the entire object please?

just click on the thumbnail Gem

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Can you place a photo of the entire object please?

 

[Tesorodeoro]

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I’d be super curious as to what kind of animal this came from. I’ve looked at the elephant and Wooley mammoth skeletons and do not see such short bones. It doesn’t seem fossilized to me. Rather it seems like just old bone. The amount of sponge bone might be another clue. Any information would be appreciated.

 

[CaptEsteban]

Might be from a bison. I don’t think it is fossilized either .

 

[fyrffytr1]

A bear maybe?

 

[WoodnHead]

I think it looks a lot like one of the fin bones of a whale. Attached is a gray whale fin. Depending on the type of whale it resembles either the humerus, radius or ulna. Size-wise it would be one of the larger whales. It's too big for dolphin or orca. I think it might be the humerus, radius or ulna of a gray whale.

 

[GlowingArtist]

Pelvis bone, not fossilized, right, Bison, or other very large modern hoofed animal I suspect.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Pelvis bone, not fossilized, right, Bison, or other very large modern hoofed animal I suspect.

I can see what you’re getting at. It would be a thick pelvis bone. Likely a large oxen is my guess.