Please help me identify this skull.

[Niorah]

It could very well be a Japanese macaque. It would be much easier to identify if the front and canine teeth weren't missing.

 

[Emher]

This is the best thread title ever.


Or you know, at least top three.

 

[Holdfast]

Roswell Alien.

Any other answer is government whitewash BS. Monkey? About as plausible as swamp gas...

 

[trekkiedane]

This is the best thread title ever.


Or you know, at least top three.

And I didn't even try - Well... I did, but those titles were no good so I went with the most descriptive rather than try to make up something funny or clever.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Could be a bonobo skull.

I think you're right: it seems to be the right sort of shape to be a species of the Pan genus (either bonobo or common chimp).

td, where did your friend obtain the skull remnant?

I would agree, judging by these images
Image Link

 

[Zulu Romeo]

You don't think this could be a lemur, do you?

A quick Google Images search suggests not: compared to the skull presented here, the lemur skull's nasal bones are more elongated and defined along the bridge, with a broader inter-orbital nasal structure and smaller nasal orifice; plus its main calvarium (brain box) bones appear smaller relative to the rest of the facial bones.

In the few minutes' time I've had to dig on this, it looks to me like this might have belonged to a Barbary macaque (Gibraltar ape,) a Japanese macaque (snow monkey,) a rhesus macaque or something of similar size - larger than tree monkeys but smaller than chimpanzees or baboons. The general shape is right, but there are a lot of variations I haven't had time to check yet.

Japanese macaque for sure.

It could very well be a Japanese macaque. It would be much easier to identify if the front and canine teeth weren't missing.

A quick Google Images search seems to suggest the Japanese macaque is not too bad a match, although the match is on the basis of a limited range of photos on the web.

I think we need a proper primatologist out there to give us the definite answer.

This is the best thread title ever.


Or you know, at least top three.

I still prefer Precious Anglo Saxon Booty found

 

[Finn]

Could be a bonobo skull.

I think you're right: it seems to be the right sort of shape to be a species of the Pan genus (either bonobo or common chimp).

td, where did your friend obtain the skull remnant?

I would agree, judging by these images
Image Link

Looking at those images, I don't think so. The nasal bridge and the brow ridges are different.

 

[smiki]

It's a baby Ferengi. It certainly has got the teeth...

 

[Misfit Toy]

George "Goober" Lindsey.

This one has my vote.

 

[M'Sharak]

I think you're right: it seems to be the right sort of shape to be a species of the Pan genus (either bonobo or common chimp).

td, where did your friend obtain the skull remnant?

I would agree, judging by these images
Image Link

Looking at those images, I don't think so. The nasal bridge and the brow ridges are different.

The distance between the lower rim of the nasal cavity and the top of the incisor sockets is also much greater in the bonobo specimens seen in Gil T.'s search results than on the skull pictured in trekkiedane's post.

A friend of mine has had this skull on display for some time:

The shape of the skull is wrong, as well. See this image comparing human, chimp, orang and macaque skulls.

Edit:

Compare also this image of a skull which belonged to a Japanese macaque.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

See this image comparing human, chimp, orang and macaque skulls.

OK, so I guess it's not a chimp/bonobo skull after all, and, especially taking the size and maturity of the bones involved, it does look more likely to be a type of macaque.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Here's a Japanese macaque skull, from a different angle - I know macaques are the right size, and the brow ridges are quite distinctive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Macaque_Skull_Nagano.jpg

and another

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/119328526_6abbe33c7e.jpg

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I think you're right: it seems to be the right sort of shape to be a species of the Pan genus (either bonobo or common chimp).

td, where did your friend obtain the skull remnant?

I would agree, judging by these images
Image Link

Looking at those images, I don't think so. The nasal bridge and the brow ridges are different.

Yeah now that you mention it, oh well I screwed up take away my birthday, I'm only Hew-mon

It's a baby Ferengi. It certainly has got the teeth...

^

 

[Ha'kiv]

Forgive my off-topicness, but dammit I need to know. What's the name of that cartoon from your avatar, trekkiedane?

 

[trekkiedane]

Forgive my off-topicness, but dammit I need to know. What's the name of that cartoon from your avatar, trekkiedane?

That is Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Linea.

 

[Ha'kiv]

Forgive my off-topicness, but dammit I need to know. What's the name of that cartoon from your avatar, trekkiedane?

That is Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Linea.

Ah right right. I watched it often as a child. Thank you very much.

 

[RandyS]

It's the Roswell alien.

 

[trekkiedane]

It's the Roswell alien.

Bindun.

Roswell Alien.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Bindun.

That's what they want you to think.

 

[trekkiedane]

^