quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 10:50AM

Quiet, fossil_digger.
Found this fossil vertabra in my driveway in Florida about 25 years ago and recently had it identified.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 11:09AM

'Gator?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 12:59PM

For years I thought that was a possibility but what it turned out to be was totally unexpected.

trklas Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 01:53PM

Sabre tooth tiger? I know that they were indigenous to Florida....

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 02:48PM

That was another possibility I thought but wasn't it.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 02:52PM

very low odds that this is a Smilodon.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 02:56PM

I think it was from the lesbian dinosuar, Lickalottapuss...

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 05:42PM

A dog or wolf?

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 05:50PM

it starts with an "l".

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 08:14PM

Is that an "L" or an "I" ? Lion? Leopard? Iguana? Impala? Igor?

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 08:21PM

sorry, that's an "L".
if you named enough "L" animals, you're bound to hit it Blah.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 08:40PM

Liger...

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 09:05PM

* Labrador
* Ladybird
* Ladybug
* Lama
* Lamb
* Lamprey
* Langur
* Lapwing (bird)
* Lark
* Laughing thrush
* Leafbird
* Leafhopper
* Leafwing (insect; butterfly)
* Leatherback Sea Turtle
* Leech
* Lemming
* Lemur
* Leonberger
* Leopard
* Leopard Seal
* Leveret
* Lhasa Apso
* Lice
* Liger
* Lightningbug
* Lilac breasted roller
* Limpet
* Limpkin
* Ling
* linnet
* Lion
* Lionfish
* Lizard
* Llama
* Lobo
* Lobster
* Locust
* Loggerhead turtle
* Longhorn (cattle)
* Longspur (bird)
* Loon
* Lorikeet
* Loris
* Louse
* Lovebird
* Lowchen
* Lungfish
* Lynx
* Least Weasel
* Long-Tailed Weasel

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 09:16PM

HA! you got it!

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 09:24PM

Lynx? LOL!

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 10:22PM

I spent 2 1/2 decades guessing what it was. How long should I let this go on? Hmmmmmmmmmm.
It's an animal not usually associated with North America but turns out it actually evolved here, spread elsewhere to places where it lives on today, while going extinct here; the lack of association with this continent is what threw me off. Since Florida has been in and out of the sea many times over the eons I even thought it might have been a sea creature but it is a land animal, a mammal.



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woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 11:27PM

That confirms it then. It's from a Ladybug!
Actually your clues point to a Limur but I reckon the bone's too big for that. How about a Giant Lemur?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2011 11:44PM

Nah, the acestors of lemurs came from Africa and they evolved only on Madagascar. These critters evolved here and remain in this hemisphere though not this continent. They also have relatives that evolved here and made it to Africa.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: March 06, 2011 12:12AM

i think you can eliminate "lovebird"

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: March 06, 2011 04:05AM

Llama?

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 06, 2011 07:17AM

my guess is leopard

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 06, 2011 11:00AM

Our mate GAK67 is the winner! I never even considered a llama as everyone knows they're indigenous to South America but it turns out that they and their camelid buddies evolved in North America and spread all over the world before becoming extinct here about 10,000 or 12,000 years ago. An interesting coincidence is that for a few years my sister raised alpacas, a close relative of the llama, all the while with me in possesion of this artifact and not knowing from what it came.

GAK wins an all expense paid trip to his refrigerator where he can take out his favorite beverage and toast himself!



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