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Bones, Alaska, it is ??? (Read 242 times)
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Posted Jan 30, 2010, 03:01:33 PM
While Hunting in Alaska, found these washing out of a bank of dirt. I understand this is quite normal up there. Any ideas. It was pretty big i would say.

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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Jan 30, 2010, 07:35:20 PM
The smaller of the two bones is a phalanx, a toe bone. I looks like an herbivore toe, but it is not bison.  From the size, I'd guess moose.

I don't recognize the loaf-shaped bone.

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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Jan 31, 2010, 09:54:48 AM
I've given it some thought, and I think the loaf-shaped bone is a sesamoid bone, a lump of bone which occurs in a tendon at a joint, say at an ankle, to provide leverage to a hoof.

I live in Florida where there never were any moose. I would be pleased to add your bones to my comparative collection, if we could hit on a trade. I have many vertebrate fossils and some Eocene echinoids and some Native American artifacts. If you are interested, send me a personal message.

-----Harry Pristis
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Feb 03, 2010, 09:35:58 AM
The guide i was with pulled out big tooth, about 3 1/2" long and about 1 3/4 wide. I have been look ing at some of the post about mastodon teeth and that is what tooth resembled. A friend thinks it is from a ground sloth. I wish I would have stayed another week and dug out more bones. perhaps when I find out for sure what they are I will get rid of them. Thanks for Looking.
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Feb 03, 2010, 04:06:23 PM
Notice the resemblance of the deer middle phalanx to your toe bone.

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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Feb 03, 2010, 07:42:38 PM
Yeah, I can see the bones thanks, it must moose then.
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