strange bone? Very light

[TheTh3rd]

Extremely light. Doesnt seem like a rock.

 

[Inyo]

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[TheTh3rd]

It's an astragalus (also commonly called an ankle bone), which articulates with the lower (distal) end of the tibia, the lower rear leg bone.

Here are both sides of a camel astragalus (roughly 15 to 13.4 million years old) I photographed in the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert, California, several years ago:
Camel Astragalus

Awesome. I was guessing something larger than a deer, any idea what animal it would be from, considering i found it in SE Tn...Sequatchie valley...
I always assumed I would only find prehistoric marine fossils

 

[Harry Pristis]

Might be bovid . . . compare with these:

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