Bbmbr
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Its about 6" long...Found in Tuolumne County California.
Petrified bone maybe?
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the second isn't bone, sorry Bbmr. If that first one is bone, it's more than likely a quadruped (but I don't think it is based on the geology(I could be wrong but I am almost 90% sure as I don't live there. Mindat for your county. https://www.mindat.org/loc-20929.html http://bibliotecapleyades.lege.net/ciencia/ciencia_forbiddenarcheology04.htm https://passingstrangeness.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-auriferous-gravel-man-of-tuolumne-county/ https://www.tuolumnecounty.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5760
section 4.5/Table 4.5-1
Couple of those links 2nd and 3rd are some crazy stuff about the county
section 4.5/Table 4.5-1
Couple of those links 2nd and 3rd are some crazy stuff about the county
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Freemindedclark
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I'd say your instincts are spot on. The pic of the end that looks porous leads me to believe that it is bone.
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From that third link.
https://passingstrangeness.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-auriferous-gravel-man-of-tuolumne-county/
Ancient riverbeds are often a source of fossils too, and the ones under the lahar turned out to be no different. Among the items found over the years have been the skeletons of early horses and antelopes, fossilized tree trunks, and mastodon teeth. The most interesting finds came from the Valentine Shaft, where a human jaw was brought to the surface, as well as several human artifacts—a mortar and pestle, obsidian points. Most of them were explicitly described as coming from the gravel beds well under the mountain itself and there’s no getting past the fact that radioisotope dating puts the Table Mountain lahar at 9.2 million years old; the upper levels of the river gravel would be the same, and gradually grow older the deeper one got.
Probably horse or antelope. Spot on, I stand potentially corrected.
Edit: If there are Mastadon Teeth there you stand to make a few thousand on the fossil market, just stand clear of fed/state land because they will bend you over if you are there. (California is crazy like that)
Edit 2: That red rock is most definitely a feldspar rich granite though.
https://passingstrangeness.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-auriferous-gravel-man-of-tuolumne-county/
Ancient riverbeds are often a source of fossils too, and the ones under the lahar turned out to be no different. Among the items found over the years have been the skeletons of early horses and antelopes, fossilized tree trunks, and mastodon teeth. The most interesting finds came from the Valentine Shaft, where a human jaw was brought to the surface, as well as several human artifacts—a mortar and pestle, obsidian points. Most of them were explicitly described as coming from the gravel beds well under the mountain itself and there’s no getting past the fact that radioisotope dating puts the Table Mountain lahar at 9.2 million years old; the upper levels of the river gravel would be the same, and gradually grow older the deeper one got.
Probably horse or antelope. Spot on, I stand potentially corrected.
Edit: If there are Mastadon Teeth there you stand to make a few thousand on the fossil market, just stand clear of fed/state land because they will bend you over if you are there. (California is crazy like that)
Edit 2: That red rock is most definitely a feldspar rich granite though.
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