Please help ID this

[ReefGuy]

I don't know if this is the correct forum, as obviously the specimen is not alive .

BTW, I was looking for a quarter for a size comarison, but I'm married.

I found it at Venice beach today, at around 18'

 

[Lil' Irish Temper]

I don't know if this is the correct forum, as obviously the specimen is not alive .

BTW, I was looking for a quarter for a size comarison, but I'm married.

I found it at Venice beach today, at around 18'

To me it looks like a bone, otherwise no clue.

 

[ReefGuy]

Well, I guess we're one step closer, at least

 

[H2Andy]

reefguy, maybe you should put a link to this thread over in the Florida Conch
Diver's forum.

there's a bunch of guys there that dive Venice all the time, and they probably know
what this is

btw, it's almost certainly fosilized bone, so.... nice find!

 

[CBulla]

Andy - Jeff is one of those regular divers.. its our favorite, close, shore dive!

If I were to take a guess at the bones ID, judging the locaiton you found them, they are mammal and probably horse/deer OR dugong/manatee.

 

[mxracer19]

this appears to be a mauled human remain, possibly from a local homicide. Wash your hands of the evidence, delete this post!














looks like a deer femur to me.

 

[ReefGuy]

I brought it into work today and am having medical take a look at it.

 

[CBulla]

Hey.. you didn't find any pig knuckles around there like we do around alhambra now and again (Hee haw Joe and the crabbin crew toss em in crab traps)... just a thought!

 

[SueMermaid]

It looks like a lamb femur. And one that has been cut, too. The view of the head of the joint shows what looks like some soft tissue still clinging to it, is that correct?
If I found that, I would assume that it was from someone's garbage cache.

 

[Walter]

You can tell if it's modern or fossil easily by holding a match to it. If it smells like burning hair, it's modern.