What kind of bone is this?

[TCRanch]

Found this in the dried-up section of the south pond. Almost looks like a skull but I don't see any holes for eyes, other than way down towards those spiky things sticking out. Part of a vertebra? It's about 4" long and 3" wide (including the spiky things). Any ideas?

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[wbvs58]

Definitely a skull TC, those bulbous things are the tympanic bulla and those spiky things are the zygomatic arches. The joins I think are called sutures?? I think they would be wider if it was a new born. I am not sure if that is the atlas vertebrae still attached to it.

Ken

 

[TCRanch]

Definitely a skull TC, those bulbous things are the tympanic bulla and those spiky things are the zygomatic arches. The joins I think are called sutures?? I think they would be wider if it was a new born. I am not sure if that is the atlas vertebrae still attached to it.

Ken

Interesting! And yes, I had to google tympanic bulla and zygomatic arches. Any guess to the species?

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

Looks like it might have had an overbite!

 

[M.Magis]

Certainly a skull, but I don't think enough is visible to ID the species.

 

[chaded]

Looks like it might have had an overbite!

Don't say that. If you say overbite 3 times you will summon her like Beetlejuice.

*Crap, I just said it myself.. that's 2..

 

[tcolvin]

Found this in the dried-up section of the south pond. Almost looks like a skull but I don't see any holes for eyes, other than way down towards those spiky things sticking out. Part of a vertebra? It's about 4" long and 3" wide (including the spiky things). Any ideas?

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Don't say that. If you say overbite 3 times you will summon her like Beetlejuice.

*Crap, I just said it myself.. that's 2..

Possibly part of an alligator?

 

[50/50Farms]

Possibly part of an alligator?

In Kansas?

 

[BFE]

Overbite overbite overbite!

 

[tcolvin]

In Kansas?

Maybe took a wrong turn?

 

[Penantly72]

It is a bobcat skull.

 

[wbvs58]

Definitely a skull TC, those bulbous things are the tympanic bulla and those spiky things are the zygomatic arches. The joins I think are called sutures?? I think they would be wider if it was a new born. I am not sure if that is the atlas vertebrae still attached to it.

Ken

Those bulges of the nasal bones make it hard. Could it be a turtles skull????

Ken

 

[Allenw]

It is a bobcat skull.

That was my first thought.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Overbite overbite overbite!

NO!!!!!

 

[TCRanch]

It is a bobcat skull.

That makes sense, we have a lot of them around here.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

It is a bobcat skull.

Very possible. I was thinking some kind of mammal. I don't know, but is it a little bit long for a bobcat? I also can't tell how big it actually is. Opossum came to mind for me, or maybe badger?

Probably TMI, but the sagital crest looks like its a bit too developed for a bobcat? Maybe not.

 

[greybeard]

caedarus tremorsii A juvenile Graboid. Dirt Dragons. Completely subterranean & Spirit beasts from the underworld. blind to all but killing. When they aren't under the ground, they fly up, ambushing their prey like some kind of demented trout.

 

[J Hoy]

Found this in the dried-up section of the south pond. Almost looks like a skull but I don't see any holes for eyes, other than way down towards those spiky things sticking out. Part of a vertebra? It's about 4" long and 3" wide (including the spiky things). Any ideas?

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Found this in the dried-up section of the south pond. Almost looks like a skull but I don't see any holes for eyes, other than way down towards those spiky things sticking out. Part of a vertebra? It's about 4" long and 3" wide (including the spiky things). Any ideas?

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OH, NO, she's back! Someone drown their small dog in the pond. This is the rear part of a dog skull. No dragons, turtles, alligators, or underbite here - LOL.

 

[Ouachita]

Put a wig on it and it'd look like my mother-in-law

 

[chaded]

Now what did I tell you would happen but nooooo you wouldn't listen.