2.5" Fossil Horse Bone (Talus) - Rhine River, Germany

Fossil Horse Bone (Talus) - Rhine River, Germany #111900

This is a 2.5" fossil bone (talus) of a Pleistocene aged horse from the Rhine River Germany. This bone is a point of rotation in the lower back leg and sits below the Calcaneous bone. It is analogous to the human heel bone. This specimen is in excellent condition. It does have one repaired crack.

Comes with display stand.

The gravel deposits along the Rhine River used to produce a large number of Pleistocene fossils while miners quarried for gravel aggregate. They have become much harder to come by in recent years as the quarry operations have become more mechanized, often destroying fossils in the process.

SPECIES

Equus sp.

AGE

Pleistocene (~40,000 years old)

LOCATION

River Meuse (Maas)

SIZE

2.5" wide

2.5" Fossil Horse Bone (Talus) - Rhine River, Germany

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