deserthound
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2013
Posts: 390 
|
Post by deserthound on Jun 3, 2015 1:11:54 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by vegasjames on Jun 3, 2015 1:30:09 GMT -5
Think they meant sloth toe.
|
|
jamesp
Cave Dweller 
Member since October 2012
Posts: 36,600
|
Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2015 7:49:28 GMT -5
Giant sloth  |
|
Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
Posts: 20,718
|
Post by Fossilman on Jun 3, 2015 9:05:16 GMT -5
Doesn't look like whale bone....So the person could be right on the ID-SCORE!!
|
|
|
|
Post by vegasjames on Jun 3, 2015 16:36:45 GMT -5
Yes, it does look more like a toe bone and the hole in the end where you see the curve would be for the long claw they have.
|
|
deserthound
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2013
Posts: 390
|
Post by deserthound on Jun 3, 2015 18:52:59 GMT -5
wow thanks everyone...i think she might know more than she is telling...lol..secret spot of hers..we didnt go in the house but bet it was full of stuff like that only better..
|
|
|
|
Post by stephan on Jun 3, 2015 23:42:01 GMT -5
Sloth toe with barnacles. Interesting. I agree, though -- doesn't look like whale bone.
|
|
|
|
Post by vegasjames on Jun 4, 2015 5:38:04 GMT -5
Sloth toe with barnacles. Interesting. I agree, though -- doesn't look like whale bone. If the bone washed down in to the ocean then the barnacles could attach since they attach to any had surface. The fact that there are so few barnacles and so small tells us that the bone either was not in the water very long or was buried under the sand most of this time. |
|
|
|
Post by Peruano on Jun 4, 2015 6:54:08 GMT -5
It could be almost any kind of bone (I don't see a scale for size), but calling it a sloth bone is l picking up a beer can along the highway and guessing that it was thrown there by a movie star (possible but not likely). It takes a heap of anatomical study to identify what a bone is let alone what animal it might have come from. Let it be ground down by the weather and ocean for a few centuries or eons and it gets even more difficult. From this distance, I can't even tell its a fossil. Just saying. Tom
|
|
inyo
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since September 2014
Posts: 85
|
Post by inyo on Jun 4, 2015 9:37:40 GMT -5
found this in a bucket of rocks i bought.....from what she remembered it was from either calif. or oreg coast..she was told it was a slough toe..whatever that means ? 
This specific photographic view is the only one that vaguely resembles a toe bone (phalanx); if one assumes that a specialist in vertebrate paleontology identified it as a "sloth toe" (misheard by the original poster through hearsay as "slough toe"), something definitively diagnostic must be discernible there somewhere. I just don't see it for certain from any of the photographs, though. Perhaps examining it in person provides a more advantageous perspective. At any rate, I prefer the encrusting cirraped crustaceans (AKA, barnacles) rather than the "main attraction" here.
Here are some fossil cirraped crustaceans I collected from the middle Miocene Temblor Formation; that's the same geologic rock unit that yields the world-famous Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, California, of course.
Barnacles From The Middle Miocene Temblor Formation
|
|
inyo
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since September 2014
Posts: 85
|
Post by inyo on Jun 4, 2015 9:50:29 GMT -5
It could be almost any kind of bone (I don't see a scale for size), but calling it a sloth bone is l picking up a beer can along the highway and guessing that it was thrown there by a movie star (possible but not likely). Actually, a better analogy would be picking up a mangled fragment of circular aluminum object along a highway and then proceeding to identify it not only as the bottom of a beer can, but also recognizing which beer company it came from. |
|
jamesp
Cave Dweller
Member since October 2012
Posts: 36,600
|
Post by jamesp on Jun 4, 2015 10:06:09 GMT -5
Ice age drew water in the caps. Made Florida 3 times bigger. Sloths and other mammals roamed these areas that are now underwater. Looks just like a mineralized mammal bone. And a sloth toe at that.(toe, not claw) Mineralized in Florida is often the mineral apatite. Typ black in color. Common in Florida.  |
|
inyo
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since September 2014
Posts: 85
|
Post by inyo on Jun 5, 2015 9:07:22 GMT -5
Ice age drew water in the caps. Made Florida 3 times bigger. Sloths and other mammals roamed these areas that are now underwater. Looks just like a mineralized mammal bone. And a sloth toe at that.(toe, not claw) Mineralized in Florida is often the mineral apatite. Typ black in color. Common in Florida.
Please identify which characteristics of the specimen lead you to believe that it's indeed a sloth toe. As it stands now, I see nothing but an eroded vertebrate remain of nondiagnostic value to help establish a specific geologic age, let alone Pleistocene; it could be also well be the remains of an older geologic-age creature (Pliocene or Miocene, for example), or even a recent animal whose now disarticulated skeleton found its way into the Pacific Ocean (it came from either California or Oregon, by the way--not Florida).
I much confess, of course, that I find the idea that it's a sloth toe very interesting. I'm rooting for a sloth toe, actually, but right now I just don't see it.
Artist's Reconstruction Of A Shasta Ground Sloth From The Upper Pleistocene Manix Lake Beds, California
|
|
jamesp
Cave Dweller
Member since October 2012
Posts: 36,600
|
Post by jamesp on Jun 5, 2015 9:16:30 GMT -5
It just looks like ones I have collected or seen collected inyo. Florida with a wide assortment. "The list of Prehistoric Animals and Ice Age Mammals include the American Lion, Birds, Bear-Dog, Bison, Camel, Deer, Dire Wolf, Giant Capybara, Gomphothere, Giant Armadillo, Giant Beaver, Giant Short-Faced Bear, Glyptodont, Scimitar Cat, Giant Ground Sloth, Three-Toed Horse, Prehistoric Horses, Rhino, Giant Land Tortoise, Alligator, Crocodile, Agatized Coral, Tapir, Peccary, Manatee, Dugong, Dolphin, Porpoise, Turtle, Snake, Terror Bird, Fish, Prehistoric Sharks, and More!" Photos may be posted here to get the low down: www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/forum/98-florida/ |
|
deserthound
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2013
Posts: 390
|
Post by deserthound on Jun 5, 2015 9:32:07 GMT -5
well without getting into the debate as to what where and when....it was a gift more or less... and giant sloth toe bone is what i was told it was..have no reason to not believe the lady..i do think she had it looked at by a professional and thats what she was told.....it really doesnt matter as it has become part of my collection as a sloth toe bone..thanks for all the info from all...
|
|
a clue to what it is. l thank you
