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Found in woods.... Bird or fish skull?

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3 Comments

lizardking
lizardking 4 years ago

Not bird pelvic girdle. The large holes are eye sockets, not acetabulum. There are no fused vertebra, which is the majority of a bird pelvis:
https://i.imgur.com/OZriuTF.jpg
Better match for a fish skull plate:
http://helterskeletons.com/bones-2/

Gordon Dietzman
Gordon Dietzman 10 years ago

What an interesting find. I've just spent about an hour pondering this spotting. It's built very lightly and there are struts in various places so I'm guessing bird. Here is a bit of an idea. It may not be a skull, despite what appears to be eye sockets, nares holes and a bill. I'm wondering if it isn't a bird's pelvic girdle. I can't find anything quite like this though on image searches, but bird pelvic girdles are often mis-identified even by naturalists as skulls. Eye sockets are well-defined in birds and I don't see that definition here. At least if others are working on this it may provide a different direction to search for an ID. I suspect it is a pelvic girdle. Can you give us dimensions? I'm intrigued....

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 10 years ago

I hope you'll add this spotting to the Identifying Animals Through Osteology mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8475...

A. Moses
Spotted by
A. Moses

Florida, USA

Spotted on Feb 26, 2014
Submitted on Feb 26, 2014

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