Re: Found a fossil skull, anyone know what this is?
- From: Roger Bagula <rlbagulatftn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:07:12 GMT
I'd say get it X-rayed at an hospital.
And yes, take it to the University.
A better fossils newsgroup than this exists..
this is more about Humanoids before history ( back to when they were more apes than men),
but it also deals with prey animals in those eras as their bones were found in camp fires or carved to use for other purposes.
Katra wrote:
In article <42C04977.8050407@xxxxxxxxx>, Roger Bagula <rlbagulatftn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Megafauna‹mammoth and large bison‹as well as camel, horse, and sloth roamed the region.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kincaid/env.html
Photo caption:
"Kincaid Shelter as it appeared in 1988. Carved out over the millennia by erosion and water percolating through the limestone layers, the wide, deep shelter rapidly "returned to nature" after archeological investigations were completed in 1953, becoming overgrown with brush and trees. Photo by Tom Hester."
Thank you. I have it bookmarked...
I thought it might be a Sloth skull, but the consensus seems to be that this is not a fossil skull even with the symmetry shown by the pictures?
A lot of the mammalian fossils in Inner Space Caverns "bone sinks" are not even fully mineralized. Many of them, including the mammoth teeth are still bone. Seems amazing that they could last this long! Estimated age of the bone sinks is about 300,000 years if I remember correctly from when I worked there.
Cheers!
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