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Offline osage outlaw

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Skull/bone ID
« 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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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2016, 10:19:08 pm »
Sacrum, or pelvic structure. 
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2016, 10:24:05 pm »
OK.  Of what exactly?
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Offline Adam

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #3 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.
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Offline bluegill68

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2016, 10:40:23 pm »
How big is it? It appears to me to be a bird?  Possibly a turkey?
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Offline bluegill68

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2016, 10:41:28 pm »
It is definitely not a fish skull
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #6 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.
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Offline penderbender

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #7 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
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2016, 11:25:16 pm »
More Google searching looks like turkey pubic bone structure.   Mystery solved. 
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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2016, 11:33:59 pm »
Well, havent you heard the word?
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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2016, 12:21:26 am »
Everybody knows that the bird is the word...turkey bird haha
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Re: Skull/bone ID
« Reply #11 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
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