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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on November 05, 2016, 09:50:57 pm

Title: Skull/bone ID
Post by: osage outlaw on November 05, 2016, 09:50:57 pm

I found this on a hillside next to the Ohio River today.  I've been walking through the woods and finding bones for as long as I can remember and I've never seen something like this.  I have a decent skull collection and have never ran across something this shape.  At first I thought it might be a spoonbill skull but it doesn't look like the pictures on google.  It didn't look like a catfish either.   Does anyone have a guess what it might be?  It looks like it has very small eye holes.   It might not even be a skull.  I wasn't sure.

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Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 05, 2016, 10:19:08 pm

Sacrum, or pelvic structure. 

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: osage outlaw on November 05, 2016, 10:24:05 pm

OK.  Of what exactly?

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: Adam on November 05, 2016, 10:39:54 pm

Maybe part of a paddlefish skull? They live in the Ohio River. Some pictures on Google looked similar.

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: bluegill68 on November 05, 2016, 10:40:23 pm

How big is it? It appears to me to be a bird?  Possibly a turkey?

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: bluegill68 on November 05, 2016, 10:41:28 pm

It is definitely not a fish skull

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 05, 2016, 10:46:26 pm

Quote from: Adam on November 05, 2016, 10:39:54 pm

Maybe part of a paddlefish skull? They live in the Ohio River. Some pictures on Google looked similar.

Too primitive, they do not have bones, only cartilage.

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: penderbender on November 05, 2016, 11:12:04 pm

Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 05, 2016, 10:19:08 pm

Sacrum, or pelvic structure.

that is what I was thinking. Don't know from what though. Cheers- Brendan

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: osage outlaw on November 05, 2016, 11:25:16 pm

More Google searching looks like turkey pubic bone structure.   Mystery solved. 

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: sleek on November 05, 2016, 11:33:59 pm

Well, havent you heard the word?

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: penderbender on November 06, 2016, 12:21:26 am

Everybody knows that the bird is the word...turkey bird haha

Title: Re: Skull/bone ID
Post by: bowtarist on November 06, 2016, 03:09:33 pm

Quote from: bluegill68 on November 05, 2016, 10:40:23 pm

How big is it? It appears to me to be a bird?  Possibly a turkey?

ditto