Found this in a creek yesterday in Jefferson County Missouri. Just thought it was an interesting shape then saw the vein of crystals
in it. Can anyone tell me what this is?
My first thought was the same as Matt, that this may be a piece of a fossilized whale, Mastodon or Wooly Mammoth vertebrae.
"Mastodon were shorter and stockier than mammoths with shorter, straighter tusks. Mastodons were wood browsers and their molars have pointed cones specially adapted for eating woody browse. Mammoths were grazers, their molars have flat surfaces for eating grass."
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