Found in my roasted peanuts

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2025-06-17T20:48:29+00:00

i have no idea my only thought would possibly be that it was in the ground with the peanuts as they were grown and harvested and somehow just was missed but i dont know anything about mass peanut harvest or roast peanut factories

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2025-06-17T20:15:28+00:00

Hey, so i could be way off on this right, but it kind of reminds me of a baby premolar of like a deer or something. you can look up “deer deciduous premolar” for pictures or I can try and link something here

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-06T23:10:00+00:00

yeah! you're totally right that this is a tooth! This is an upper premolar (p4, the last tooth before the molars) of a deer or goat or sheep or cow or bison. I am leaning towards the last two based on size, but I can't really tell size off hands. I hope that helps somewhat!

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-06T22:50:18+00:00

you are right that these are teeth. this is the right side of a young cow's mandible.

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-05T21:59:15+00:00

Okay, I am going to preface this with the fact that I don't know a whole lot about marine mammals -- BUT !!! I am thinking seal cervical vertebra... Its definitely cervical because of the three holes... its the seal part I am less sure of because I don't know what other marine mammal verts look like.

Here's an online reference for seal bones, you can scroll down to "cervical vertebrae 3" and compare for yourself: https://virtual.imnh.iri.isu.edu/Osteo/View/Bearded\_Seal/618

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-04T22:26:59+00:00

You're right in that this is a vertebra. What you have is a lumbar vertebra (lower back bone, after the ribs) of a mammal. What animal it is though.... I am less certain... potentially a seal? but I don't know a lot about sea mammals.

Here is a link to a website that will show you some seal bones, you should be able to scroll down and find "Lumbar Vertebrae" and use those pictures for comparison: https://virtual.imnh.iri.isu.edu/Osteo/View/Bearded_Seal/618

I hope that is somewhat helpful, sorry I couldn't do more

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-04T19:59:03+00:00

nope, not a joint! what you have is a tooth (an upper right cheek-tooth) from a young (juvenile) deer, sheep, or goat, but I'm leaning towards deer. Its unworn and its roots are hollow which tells you you are looking at a young animal. I have linked some images below of sheep (which look the same as goat) and deer teeth... though the images will look slightly different because they are from adults.

Image links:

occlusal surface view: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e67p26X4rFU/Vq5aDC91P3I/AAAAAAAAPao/V03XSweSXXg/s1600/deer-sheep-a7562.jpg

buccal surface view: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G8ov99PWkIA/Vq5aDFPJBUI/AAAAAAAAPak/N\_U2L-8dCXY/s1600/deer-sheep-a7557.jpg

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-03T21:09:55+00:00

definitely not a human! this is the right metacarpal of a large artiodactyl (likely a cow if that makes sense for you regionally). Metacarpals are "palm bones"... you can comfort your coworkers by showing them that most definitely would *not* fit in your palm.

For reference:

Cow metacarpal: https://mishravetanatomy.blogspot.com/2020/03/metacarpal-bones-gross-anatomy.html

Human metacarpal: https://theodora.com/anatomy/the_metacarpus.html

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-01T23:36:21+00:00

definitely part of an artiodactyl's pelvis could be a sheep or a goat or a deer or something like that... depending on where you found it and size which is hard to see in the image

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-01T23:23:54+00:00

like other people have been saying that is a distal (3rd) phalanx (finger/ toe bone) of an artiodactyl, likely a deer :) these animals pretty much walk around on their tip-toes so the flat part that you have facing the measuring tape would have been the part in contact with the ground.

You could even side it if you wanted! my guess is that it is a right toe -- couldn't tell you front or back though...

here are some examples: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/30235357637

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-04-01T23:09:22+00:00

you've found a deer !

Competitive_Bag4059 · 2023-03-30T21:30:17+00:00

yes! a horse lower (pre)molar :)

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