I was in Missouri the other day and happened to stop at a rock shop that was selling some Indian artifacts. I was going through their "rock pile" when I found a prehistoric petrified canine skull that had turned to solid stone after who knows how many centuries. It is either a small bear, young wolf or maybe a coyote but it has fossilized and is very heavy for it's size. It could even be some sort of species that went extinct. Very neat. I will give it a good new home! I'll have my buddy Steve O. send some photos later today. Stay tuned.
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Very cool! Stay tuned... :campfire:
Thats got to be cool. :campfire:
Looking forward to seeing this !
That sounds sooo cool! That is my kind of find! Can't wait to see it! You have some very cool artifacts Gene!
Priceless?
Give ya $5 for it !
ChuckC ;) ;)
Lets see those pics! Julie is a skull hoarder. Maybe next time she sees you shell bat her eyelashes at you and you'll just cough it up!
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By the way, I think your new TallTines is priceless...
Neat find! Looks like a small alligator
im thinking dinosaur of some sort, since the eye orbit is connected all the way around with an open cavity in front of the eye and the eyes seem to be on the sides of the head......im stumped , but very cool!!
Nice find
Great find Gene!!!
I would have that to a paleontologist for identification. Any Universities close by?
Skychief.
Well that's different.......I think you need to get that to an Anthropologist or someone who can tell what the heck it is and how old......even I know it's old....LOL!
Gene, You should not just give it a new home, but spend some effort to find out what it really is, or who he was.
Careful, there's a lot of frauds out there :p :smileystooges:
Cool find
Gene that is so cool.
It's even cooler than my "Dragon's Heart".
I'd love to hear more about it if you get someone who knows about such things.
God bless,Mudd
I'm no expert, but I did take a few classes on dinosaurs in college. Looks like a dinosaur to me as well. maybe velosoraptor?
A trip to your local museum of natural science would be worthwhile. The people there can tell you what it is. Our professors dug up ancient buffalo bones, the prehistoric giant buffalo and we took them there to be identified.
That's an awesome find.
The second picture shows the shape of a canine skull but the third and fourth pictures show the lower teeth (molars) being pointed which would suggest dinosaur , I don't know but would like to find out . Cool find indeed !
Great find! I found a few fossils around here over the years, always such a treat to see.
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Here is a velosoraptor,it may be similiar?
Not any dog animal I know of with all those canines , Looks like a gator to me.
God bless, Steve
I agree with with Ron, have a paleontologist look at it. Very impressive. If you hadn't said small would say bear or maybe some kind of wolf.
There are no lower teeth intact nor visible. Those are the roots of the upper teeth that look pointed. I think it's some sort of canine. I will not send it off anywhere. I had an old friend in Montana who found a fossilized human skull years ago. He sent it off somewhere to be aged and never saw it again. They denied ever getting it. I will try to get this checked out by an archeologist but will not send it off anywhere.
Gene, if I'm not mistaken, thats chomper, my first pet!
I will comment a quote from a famous space frontiersman with pointed ears, "fascinating".
Cool find, Gene.
Definitely a pithyerpantsifyasawitlive-a-suarus.
what do you think?
that is really cool. Kind of looks like a bear but the skull is elongated.
John
Partially because any human remains in the US that are Pre-Columbian are considered to be Native tribesman regardless. If they ever acknowledge their existence they would have had to turn them over to Indian authorities for burial without being able to exam them ever.
That's neat! I'm interested to find out what it is, Gene.
Hey Ricker, I pithmypants just reading your post!
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That's awesome.
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Definitely mammalian, the skull seems to be a little too flat on the top to be canine, who know how the skull has been compressed deformed with time, but interesting none the less, google some online sources several universities have very good skull materials online, one is in texas one in southern California, can't recall which ones, good luck finding out what it might be.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gene Wensel:
There are no lower teeth intact nor visible. Those are the roots of the upper teeth that look pointed. I think it's some sort of canine. I will not send it off anywhere. I had an old friend in Montana who found a fossilized human skull years ago. He sent it off somewhere to be aged and never saw it again. They denied ever getting it. I will try to get this checked out by an archeologist but will not send it off anywhere.
Absolutely. Take it, let them examine it, but don't let it out of your possession. Or better yet, have someone come to you. Many years ago I received the same advice from an expert that I met for coffee to examine a mastodon tooth I found while duck hunting. Don't tell them where you found it either. Be vague.
This is extremely cool. Sure would be interested to find out for sure what it is.
The teeth are distinctively those of a mammalian carnivore. Probably a canid, not a bear. The second photo (top view) looks very much like a wolf skull.
A cool find for sure!...and now it is in good hands!
You can Email pictures to the Paleontology department of the Smithsonian Institute and they will give you a estimated guess. I have used them in the past and they have been very helpful.
Yaba daba doo! that is Deno the Dino!
QuoteOriginally posted by Ricker:
Definitely a pithyerpantsifyasawitlive-a-suarus.
what do you think?
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Now we know where Jimmy Hoffa is!
Gene good Idea not to send it in .A stone was found by my house that had the date scratched on it of 1739, could only have been La Verendrie this would have been 44 years before Louis and Clark . It was sent in to the university and never seen again!....Tim
WOW, way cool find.
Gene
Is it possible it could be a turtle...maybe a sea turtle?
Thats what it looks like to me...our family has trapped turtles for quite some time. Just saying without seeing it in person.
George
I sent detailed photos, measurements, weight data, etc. off to the paleo department at the University of Kansas yesterday. Got an email this afternoon from them identifying it as a oreodont and dated somewhere around 35,000,000 years old! (Give or take a million years!)
http://www.geoclassics.com/oreodont.htm
Very cool Unca Gene!
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OK. . $10, but thats as high as I go. . . .
ChuckC
Cool post! My science classes would love this!
yea that was going to be my second guess!!!
That's a Chupacabria. I saw a video the other day that had one of those in it crossing a field. The stripes really stood out on it Some must have survived.
God bless, Steve