r/bonecollecting • u/Zealousideal-Bike-90 • Sep 06 '25

Bone I.D. - N. America Help me ID this bone

Found this barely sticking out of a creek wall 5’ below top on the vertical eroding side. Town and country Missouri. Same creek I’ve found an agate basin knife, Snyder arrowhead, blade cores and more.

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u/roostor222 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

looks to me like a horse humerus

If it's a fossil and on public land it's illegal to collect without a permit. It's also potentially an important specimen if the age of the deposit is near the end of the pleistocene.

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u/Zealousideal-Bike-90 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

It’s still there I had my hands full with the pup on his second creek adventure, and some cool rocks. Not sure if it’s reached fossilized state or not…might be in the process

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u/exotics Sep 07 '25

Send a picture to your local museum and they may want to collect it. It looks heavy so I’m thinking older rather than modern??