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Hello!

Last week I found a petrified bone on the beach of Cadzand-Bad. The owner of the local fossile shop confirmed, that it´s a petrified bone, but also said, never to have seen something like that before.

For me it seems to look like a bone of a foot or hand / extremity of a mammalian. That correspondes with some finds of petrified teeth of former horses and cows.

So well, shurely I like to know exactly what I found there. Can anybody of you help me? Don´t be afraid to answer in dutch, ´cause I understand a lot, but can´t speak it. Sorry for that!

Kind regards
Gebus

Mooie vondst!

het lijken een vergroeiing mij een de eerste 1e en de tweede phalanx waarbij de 2e phalanx afgebroken is. Geen idee of dit soort vergroeiingen bestaan, maar het lijkt er wel op.

welk beest is dan weer een ander verhaal.

Hello!

Thanks for your answer, maarten76, I also think, that´s a kind of phalanx. But I can´t discover a point, where a part should be broken off. The bone seems to be intact. Your presumtion of a coalescense could have happened after the bone perhaps was broken into two parts. To Show you, I send new and better photos of it.

Nobody else with an idea?

When browsing the community, I found the very similar looking item no. 371-0022, the suspected phalanx of a reindeer. But I disagree with this presumption, because there´s no bone in the skeleton of a deer like this one.

Really a nice find, but also a big question!?

Kind regards
Gebus

Looks like a carnivore (big cat) to me. Maybe Charlie knows. ...

Hello, this is an first Phalanx (Toe bone) of a bear.

Hello!

For myself alone I´d never found, what animal it was. Phalanx ok, mammalian ok, but bear? Now I know it, great! Many thanks for your help!

Kind regards
Gebus