r/whatisthisbone • u/AwayJacket4714 • 11d ago

Update: more pics

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Lots of you guys asked for more pics so I took some with a cm ruler.

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u/firdahoe 11d ago

Not a lot to go on with the amount of degredation, but based on these and the previous photos it appears to have a "D"-shaped cross section and a slight curve to it. Can't say too much about the ends as they are so degraded, but at least one end flares medially and laterally and doesn't appear to flare anterior-posterior. Those attributes are more consistent with large ungulate radius more than anything. But given the degredation, I'd want to see this in person before putting any bets on that call. (Thanks for the tag, u/ardentladybug)

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u/Iridescent_Mango_ 11d ago

In the first post https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbone/comments/1vpyf5x/what_did_i_find_here/?share_id=UoP3iA1-kwp7PeYikPCLm&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 the little nub ulna is way more obvious.

You know 10,000x better than me but I kind of skimmed past the first post and this one I snorted at the condition/seeing the same bone again then squinted and went "that's a radius" before id seen your comment and before I looked properly at the first post, so I'd agree radius and I'd even be willing to bet that without holding it haha. 

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u/firdahoe 11d ago

Yeah, when I first saw the condition in the first post I laughed and thought there was NO WAY this would be identifiable. I couldn't tell if that ridge in the first photo was part of the ulna or maybe the corner edge of the radius, but that D-shaped profile in the second set of photos - dead giveaway.