Fossil?

[Older The Better]

Fossil toe?

 

[Kray Gelder]

The small one looks like a deer toe bone, as you say. The other? Do you think it's marine, or land animal? Do you find whale fossils or shark teeth there?

 

[Older The Better]

Oops I found it on a gravel bar in Kansas the rocks around here are Pennsylvanian then it jumps to quaternary sediments. Yes I do believe that the small one is a deer. I was using it as a visual aid to show what I’m seeing in the larger one. The larger one is def petrified or maybe it’s all ways been a rock I’m not sure

 

[old digger]

Your item in question does look like a toe bone, possibly maybe bear. But it looks like it has some tar buildup, or it was in a fire. Nice Find!

 

[Kray Gelder]

Oops I found it on a gravel bar in Kansas the rocks around here are Pennsylvanian then it jumps to quaternary sediments. Yes I do believe that the small one is a deer. I was using it as a visual aid to show what I’m seeing in the larger one. The larger one is def petrified or maybe it’s all ways been a rock I’m not sure

Oh, OK. I wondered. The other may be a bone from some mega-fauna beast. I can't help you narrow it down.

 

[Older The Better]

Your item in question does look like a toe bone, possibly maybe bear. But it looks like it has some tar buildup, or it was in a fire. Nice Find!

Yeah it has some sort of build up that’s got some small pebbles pretty well bonded to it. That’s why i wasn’t sure it was bone, the smooth black looks right and the shape looks good enough but I can’t see the pores at the ends because of the build up.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Interesting finds...

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yep, definitely a phalangy of some type, and it also looks like its fossilized.