NSR hunt today, need help with ID

[GameOfTones]

Found today on the N. Sulphur River in TX and is a piece I can't ID with my NSR fossil book. Anyone have an idea?

 

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[research guy]

I'm not a fossil expert of any kind, but from the picture it looks to me like a partial column of vertebrae encrusted with sediment. Almost like you can make out the transverse processes protruding past what looks like sediment.

 

[GameOfTones]

Thanks. I thought it could be something similar, too but I also thought it was "fish sized" and thought it look more land animal than fish?
I am a rookie when it comes to ID'ing fossils. I knew my basics when I was in TN/GA but now I hunt and live in TX.
All different rock critters here.

 

[Relic Ron]

Five little vertebrates still stuck together now that's a very cool find, I'm no expert either but it could be the tip of the tale of a baby mosasaur , the paddle bones on these creatures were a little bit longer so I think spine area, the fish vertebrates would be round...Nice find !

 

[GameOfTones]

Five little vertebrates still stuck together now that's a very cool find, I'm no expert either but it could be the tip of the tale of a baby mosasaur , the paddle bones on these creatures were a little bit longer so I think spine area, the fish vertebrates would be round...Nice find !

These are definitely not round.

 

[A2coins]

Thats a cool.find did you look for the rest of it lol

 

[GameOfTones]

Thats a cool.find did you look for the rest of it lol

Thanks. It was a gravel find.

 

[kenstein]

Good eye on the fossil. I ,too, have been walking that river...for close to thirty years. Haven't seen that before...no idea....possibly small mosasaur as Relic Ron mentioned.

 

[kenstein]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/fossils/455318-first-fossil.html Here is a previous post of a NSR vertebral column

 

[GameOfTones]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/fossils/455318-first-fossil.html Here is a previous post of a NSR vertebral column

Wow, thanks! I missed that post when searching.
Those look exactly like mine but larger. The individual vertebrae have the same colors and grooves. That makes me think even more that mine is from the end of the tail.

 

[research guy]

Wow, thanks! I missed that post when searching.
Those look exactly like mine but larger. The individual vertebrae have the same colors and grooves. That makes me think even more that mine is from the end of the tail.

it would be tough for me to believe it is an identifiable section of vertebra. It's not an atlas or axis section. What needs to be considered her is that the sediment has been removed from erosion over time, and the same can be said for the bone structure itself I would think. It could be a small animal spine, or the tail of a larger animal. You seem to have found it at the perfect time. Much more erosion and it would be sectioned apart completely, and less erosion you wouldn't see the structure at all I would think.