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Whose bone is it? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by troot@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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I found this in French's mountains, but I'm bad at identifying bones. All measurements in centimeters.

More pics:

The vertebra's "top", horizontally. It's 5,5 cm.

Same vertebra on its side.

The vertebra's "bottom".

The vertebra's hole on its other side, we see it's very porous.

I tagged it gross but I don't now if clean bones are considered gross or not. Let me now if you now :)

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[–] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m no expert so take this with a mountain of salt: looks like a goat cervical vertebra to me. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Anatomical-measurements-of-goat-cervical-spines-A-Anterior-vertebral-body-height_fig12_234090416

[–] troot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the website! It could be, the hole looks bigger but it may be a non-cervical vertebra.