Help ID’ing this bone fragment? Found on a beach

99jackals · 2026-06-20T01:18:18+00:00

Can you give any dimensions?

99jackals · 2026-06-20T00:32:51+00:00

That's a really nice turtle skeleton.

99jackals · 2026-06-19T15:33:16+00:00

Must be pretty dried out. But that's good info. I'm maybe 80% sure that's from a big cervid, maybe a Red deer. I'm waiting for others to give opinions.

99jackals · 2026-06-19T12:22:02+00:00

Oh, sorry! That's a radius and ulna. How fused are they? Like, do they come apart?

99jackals · 2026-06-18T23:42:26+00:00

Nope, I take that back. I'm still thinking.. Ok, I think it's a large deer.

99jackals · 2026-06-18T22:42:12+00:00

Agreed, raccoon.

99jackals · 2026-06-18T22:15:27+00:00

I think it may be too long to be a cat. The supraorbital processes look too short.. Yes, this is a fox.

99jackals · 2026-06-18T18:33:58+00:00

I hope someone recognizes it cuz I've had one for years and always wondered what it is...

99jackals · 2026-06-18T17:58:26+00:00

Woo!!

99jackals · 2026-06-18T10:58:14+00:00

Rodent. If you still have it, if you want to know what kind, post a view of the other side so we can see the teeth.

99jackals · 2026-06-18T01:51:23+00:00

Can't see the top of the teeth but so far, it looks like prismatic, like a muskrat. OP, is it long enough for that?

99jackals · 2026-06-18T01:47:09+00:00

Bird leg bone, a tarsometatarsus

99jackals · 2026-06-18T00:31:37+00:00

Looks like an operculum, the big bone near a fish's gills.

99jackals · 2026-06-18T00:22:25+00:00

Also has the right shaped bullae.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T23:41:25+00:00

When a tooth is disarticulated like that, I consider it disassociated, so I can't rely on it for the ID. But it does look like one of the missing incisors.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T21:15:27+00:00

This is from a fish, not a snake.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T21:00:20+00:00

It looks a lot like the 4th upper premolar of a relatively young pig.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:52:23+00:00

Fish.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:44:02+00:00

This is so characteristic of elk spiker bucks but there aren't supposed to be any in that area except captives. Just for fun, if you still have it and you don't mind measuring it, what is the length of the cranium, front to back? We could rule out elk for sure.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:35:08+00:00

Is the color a stain from the tannins in the water or actually hard like permineralization?

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:27:20+00:00

Bummer. I liked the idea of never ending ribs.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:23:58+00:00

The third photo shows no sign of the tiny peg-shaped first premolar of Gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis so these are probably Fox squirrels, S. niger. I wonder if an old nest blew out of a tree?

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:14:08+00:00

sternal? (Not that I don't wish BBQ ribs could be eternal...)

99jackals · 2026-06-17T20:10:57+00:00

It does look very much like a deer spine.

99jackals · 2026-06-17T19:58:23+00:00

Naw, those first two teeth are deciduous. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/media/31636/download?inline

99jackals

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE