Bone in Swedish lake

[blobrana]

A man finds large bone in a lake in northern Sweden.

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[Enmos]

A man finds large bone in a lake in northern Sweden.

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Hmm doesn't it look like a whale vertebrae ?
I was able to decipher the text a little so I know the basic story, but I would love to read it in English though

 

[snake river rufus]

I would also like to see it in english if you would

 

[Enmos]

It looks like a worn down thoracic mammal vertebrae.

 

[blobrana]

@Enmos
Yes, probably a whale bone

The next question is how it got there (The lake is relatively high up in the hills, 150 -200 metres).

 

[Enmos]

@Enmos
Yes, probably a whale bone

The next question is how it got there (The lake is relatively high up in the hills, 150 -200 metres).

Washed there by near end ice age floods, or maybe just put there by man.
Have they determined its age yet ?

Edit: Perhaps it is a fossilized vertebra of one of the "ancestral" whales, they seem large enough.
My vote is Basilosaurus. The shape of the vertebra shown is more like that of a Basilosaurus than like one of a modern whale.

 

[blobrana]

Washed there by near end ice age floods...
Have they determined its age yet ?

Hum,
I don't know.
I suspect it dates from the last ice age; perhaps when the land was lower and it got stranded, or a massive tidal wave could have deposited it there.

 

[Enmos]

Hum,
I don't know.
I suspect it dates from the last ice age; perhaps when the land was lower and it got stranded, or a massive tidal wave could have deposited it there.

That would be one massive tidal wave.
I'm talking about trapped meltwater from the retreating glaciers that gets released, It would wash anything away, it might have deposited that fossil there as well.
I assume they found no additional bones ?

 

[blobrana]

I don't know, my Swedish is a bit rough