Help identify this fossil

[Onagoth]

So, my brother and I found this hunting a few weeks ago, anyone have any thoughts on what it is?

 

[RobSmith]

Moose skull ?

 

[Onagoth]

I don't believe moose are resident to this area, SW Ontario. If they are, I have never seen one.

I was thinking along the lines of some type of raptor, if it is indeed a skull, it may be consistent with the size of a full grown eagle. I'm really just guessing though

 

[Aries-]

to big for a hawk or eagle. the one looks more like a pelvis than a skull. and im guessing it might be from a dog or something simmilar.

the one on the left looks like a chest from a dog. the right looks like a pelvis.

 

[hakx]

Not a skull. The one on the right is part of a pelvis.

 

[Onagoth]

Is it the ribbing that gives it away?

 

[H4831]

You called it a fossil, but to me, it sure looks like bone.

 

[Onagoth]

You called it a fossil, but to me, it sure looks like bone.

http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=fossil&search=search

Semantics comes up, but I think it loosely fits the definition.

 

[Ruffie]

It's not semantics it's a bone !

You called it a fossil, but to me, it sure looks like bone.

If you go back to your link Onagoth whats at issue here is " from a former geologic period" and this one is clearly from this geologic period. I'm with H4831 on this one. It's a bone, looks like a pelvis to me.

 

[andre66]

 

[G P]

ROFL andre.

The right one is part of a pelvis for sure. Other I have no idea.

 

[MagnumPeanut]

lmao!!!

 

[Pudelpointer]

Part of a breast plate and back of a ?? Cannot really tell size from the pics.... so goose? Turkey? The keeled breast bone and fused backed vertebrae (visible from the bottom) makes it a bird of some sort.

Measurements of length and width would narrow it down.

 

[PileBuck]

i would call it a turtle... backbone in the top shell and bottom chest plate

 

[Wrong Way]

Better question...what were you hunting a few weeks ago?

 

[dudu]

fos⋅sil   /ˈfɒsəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [fos-uhl] Show IPA
–noun 1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.

I think you discovered a "fossilized" Meleagris gallopavo.Wow.

 

[Onagoth]

Part of a breast plate and back of a ?? Cannot really tell size from the pics.... so goose? Turkey? The keeled breast bone and fused backed vertebrae (visible from the bottom) makes it a bird of some sort.

Measurements of length and width would narrow it down.

Its on a standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper if that helps

Better question...what were you hunting a few weeks ago?

yotes

 

[arcticcathonda]

Like someone else said, I would tend to think it was a goose.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

i would call it a turtle... backbone in the top shell and bottom chest plate

Ditto - a big snapper maybe.

 

[marlin]

Turkey bones