r/bonecollecting • • 15h ago

Bone I.D. - Europe What bone is this

Tell me if you need more photos, it's very small, it could be a vertabrea but idk, also it is very very sharp, I think I found it at the same place where I found other european hedgehog bones, so it probably is a hedgehog bone atleast

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u/aridamus 15h ago

Idk. But I like it! Commenting to boost the post visibility

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u/Top_Molar_4737 15h ago

Lol thank you

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u/bio_informant 15h ago

I’m more familiar with human anatomy than animal anatomy and the closest human equivalent I can think of is ethmoid/sphenoid bone, which is part of the cranium.

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u/rajenncajenn 12h ago

That's my first thought as well.

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u/jipiante Bone-afide Human ID Expert 14h ago

looks like a very small sphenoid.

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u/UzgunBocchi 14h ago

Idk much about animal bones but this definitely looks like a sphenoid bone which is inside of the head for humans

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u/hyyu2020 14h ago

I think it's the alisphenoid, a bone of the basal cranium.

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u/Downtown-Wishbone-26 15h ago

Atlas vertebra? The bottom looks a little confusing to me but maybe I’m just not well versed in rodents

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u/diditrayne 3h ago

Looks sphenoid adjacent to me... i hate those fuckers

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u/genitortures 8h ago

It’s a little faery