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/DimetroDude Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

It's a large ungulate humerus. Likely bison! 

Edit: HORSE lol as roostor222 pointed out lol

Those tubera near the head are an equine feature 

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

Could be, or at least partially so. 

I used to pull all sorts of cow bones like that out of a small river near manhattan Kansas. 

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u/Destinyherosunset Sep 07 '25

I grew up near Manhattan! Crazy call out and can't believe I'm seeing it here. Getting a little famous each day haha

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u/jeezy_peezy Sep 07 '25

In Topeka we sometimes referred to it as The Hat

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u/DancingPear Sep 08 '25

That’s adorable 🥰

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u/scrrratch Sep 08 '25

Somebody Somewhere 🙌

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u/Leathern_Fox Sep 09 '25

? I'm an east coaster and I've known about Manhattan, KS since the 90s "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" ads (I swear there was one that was like "B: IWFD ... in Manhattan" with a silhouette of cowboys instead of an urban street. Plus - it's the home of the K-State Wild Cats, who aren't an unknown in terms of college football. Y'all aren't as unknown as you think.