Brazos River, Texas - Big Bird?

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Brazos River, Texas

This "bird thing" came out of a working sand pit on the Brazos River 20 yrs ago when a drag line crossed a clay fossil vein. I dug around for a few days and found a few other small black companion bones to this "bird thing", that I can't currently find, in the same layer of Brazos orange clay. It's not a iron nodule. It feels like some type of asphaltum. It has a hard rubber texture and is very light.

I think bird thing floated down here from someplace else just waiting for me to find it and one day post it on Treasure net.

The pit flooded a few months later and is owned by another family today.

I've searched for other bird fossils and profile examples and I've only found a few.

Side note: They found a bloat and float mammoth at another Vernor sand pit in Clute Tx in 2004. The site is only a couple of miles as a crow flys from the Brazos river. They opened a restaurant and dive club in the pit....

I'm still hoping to find my bloat and float one day.....)

Skull from Ice Age mammoth unearthed in Clute - Houston Chronicle





















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A few more details....

No, it is not pliable at all. It's so light, its kind of brittle. The very tip of the beak broke off years ago after it fully dried. I glued it back on to keep from losing it. And misplaced the companion bones, when I stored it away properly. The other 3 small bones are here someplace.

Yes, it burns black smoke and smells like road tar. (Think bird covered in a oil spill)

It dont float now. It dont totally sink. It holds a bob on the bottom of the sink. That's how it floated or bobbed to the Texas coast, me thinks... I think, it floated or bobbed here from someplace else a very long time ago and come to rest in a fossilized clay vein in a sand pit 30 ft deep. But I'm just a amateur.