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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / October 2004found a dionsaur bone
Hello, we found a petrified dinosaur bone on our trip to the Bisti Wilderness Area south of Farmington/NM and were very excited about it. Looking around in the internet, it looks like it is common to find dinosaur fossils in this area. Still, we are wondering if someone here can tell what dinosaur it likely is from: http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/49/186949/1280_6238386134316466.jpg Hard to see much, but looks more like a mammal bone than dinosaur to me. Camel maybe? Eric G. Taylor > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/49/186949/1280_6238386134316466.jpg >Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/49/186949/1280_6238386134316466.jpg Unless your find were something diagnostic like a skull or a tooth, you are possibly going to have trouble getting a very firm definition of what kind of animal its from based on a single bone. My guess is that it would help a lot if you knew what geologic formation the object eroded from. If it's Mesozoic then the bone is probably from a reptile -- very likely, but not certainly, a dinosaur. If it is Tretiary, then it's probably a mammal. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/49/186949/1280_6238386134316466.jpg Don't know about the local geology, but from the image, I cannot say for sure that the surrounding material is *not* fresh debris. In this case, the bone could be from a horse or cow that died 100 years ago, although it seems to be a bit big. Cheers, Christof  SignatureDI Christof Kuhn Inst. f. Angewandte Geologie, Univ. f. BoKu Wien, Austria Christof.Kuhn@boku.ac.at http://homepage.boku.ac.at/h9440283/index.htm >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > the bone could be from a horse or cow that died 100 years ago, although it > seems to be a bit big. It does seem a bit big for a horse or cow but much less fragmented than one would expect from a dino bone. One end looks intact and I'd think an expert on mammal bones could make some kind of educated guess as to roughly what you have based on what is there. It is definately worth show and tell. > Cheers, Christof |
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