
A top view of the two vertebrae showing the sliver of lighter colored stone, which used to be cartilage, separating the two fossilized bones.
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A top view of the two vertebrae showing the sliver of lighter colored stone, which used to be cartilage, separating the two fossilized bones.
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Fossil Hunting on Pine Mountain
“He may be just a tramp, a guy that likes to roam about this great country without any special aim, just to thank the Lord for these beautiful mountains.”
-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
“. . .here, where there are still the silences and the loneliness of the earth before man, . . .”
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how old are these bones ?
So far as I’ve read they may be somewhere around 12 to 20 million years old.
I have it allover my Painted Cave property!
Thanks for the comment. Funny you should mention that. I’ve found it in the creek up there.