fossil bone but what bone is it

[geo4472]

i've already posted in fossil section. anyone have any ideas as to what this fossil bone is? whatever it is is now rock and where the inside of the bone was seems to be filled with a tan color mineral deposit found near my home town paterson nj thanks for looking

 

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[Sim_Player]

Ancient whale or shark back-bone would be my guess.

Google Images for it.

Glue it together and put a shiny finish on it (future floor wax is pure acrylic in solution).

Very cool.

Jim

 

[DMN]

Kind of looks more like an old steak bone actually. Don't see any replacement mineralization there. I've been known to be wrong on more than one occasion.

 

[geo4472]

the pics are pretty bad but the pic i took of thr broken half shows where there is a tan or a yellowish mineral that filled where the inside of the bone itself would have been also the material its made of is no longer bone but is rock like

 

[Skelly607]

I have one similiar to this,,,,mine is a deer leg bone that was cut. If i can find ut will post a pic.

 

[hammong]

Doesn't look like a fossil to me, at least not in the million-year old fossil definition that I'm used to. It might be consider an indian artifact though, hard to say how old it is. I've seen bone come up from wet places where the pores have filled in and hardened and not be more than a hundred years old or so.

Looks like a steak or ham bone to me, like something tossed to the family dog after dinner. Just the right size too, with the lighter there for comparison purposes.

Greg

 

[geo4472]

just talked to david brohaska at the smithsonian museum in the paleobiology dept. he said that it could be a modern bone and that ,that it what it appears to be and the reason it may be "petrified already is because of iron ore that is present in the soil around the area i found it in oxidized the bone and hardened it and that sand can actually harden to rocklike hardness rather quickly but he also said not to throw it out on the chance that it might be part of a fossil skeleton of some dino he also said being that the pics were fuzzy it was kind of hard to tell 100% for sure so, i guess for now its halfway solved half a green check mark...lol

 

[Sofaman36]

Sorry to "burst your bubble", but it's just a steak bone. I find them all the time in my yard detecting because we used to throw our scraps to our dog.

 

[Damon64]

A nice rib-eye!

 

[Skelly607]

These are the pix that I told you last night that I would post,,,,,,,,,, Was at a cook out and found it in a deer steak,,,,,thought it was kewl looking so I took it home and bleached it and sanded it,,,wore it as a necklace for a while. (Ive had this one for about 20 years.) See if you can see any saw marks on the sides.

 

[cct]

very nice.

 

[Gunrunner61]

Seems to be saw marks on the (cut) ends jmho..............HH