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Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to check it out as none of my initial finds were extinct species... I have since found horse teeth at that location and can't wait for water levels to go back down!!! Hoping to add a few new species to my collection on my upcoming trip to GMR & one of the Summerville creeks (not sure which one yet but would love to find my first Angi & GW)... the GW in my pics was actually found by my Grandfather in Panama in the 70s! Thanks for looking : )
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Went to Calvert cliffs yesterday and it was a perfect day. There wasn’t much wind, and the water was really calm. I only saw one other person out but the beach was pretty much empty. Saw a bald eagle on a tree above I didn’t have my phone on me but it was a really nice sight. I knew that was going to be a good day and it was. I found a megalodon with feeding damage, a really nice 2 and a half inch sperm whale tooth, a nice 1 1/2 inch dolphin tooth, a squalodon tooth, a nice mako, an awesome wahoo jaw, and a bird bone to top it off. It was find after find today, here’s the photos: The complete haul: The better finds: I found the sperm whale and megalodon feet away from each other. The dolphin, my nicest one ever, was found in a foot of water. It was so clear and glassy you could see it perfectly. Flipped: What a great day. Can’t wait to return here soon.
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I normally fossil hunt Oct-Mar so my season has started. Launched the kayak out of Chesapeake Beach and began to work down the cliffs. Unfortunately it was far rougher than I had hoped so the kayaking was tough as such I didn’t go as far as I’d have liked. But I made my first and only stop worth it and found a good handful of teeth and a couple nice verts! The biggest makos were 1.40” and 1.20”, the biggest dolphin teeth were 1.20” and 1.03”(my two biggest!). All in all it was a beautiful morning and a great first hunt of the season for me.
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Found this in the water near the fossil beach of Westmoreland State Park in Va. Seems like a whale / dolphin bone, but what part? Is it a vert piece? As always, thanks for the help.
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Swimming with the the mega-toothed sharks of NJ
steviefossils posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello everyone. I'm making my rounds across my different groups and forums, so if anyone has seen these photos before you'll have to suffer through them again. From June through the end of August I locked in on a concentrated area of sand tigers, makos, and my favorite mega-tooth shark: Otodus auriculatus. I didn't find one every trip out, but my most plentiful day gifted me 3, and my last trip out provided me with the largest tooth I have ever recovered from the garden state. I battled minuscule mosquitoes and a horsefly that was every bit horse as it was fly. Despite nature's best attempts to discourage me I persevered and wound up with 10 Otodus auriculatus teeth, a few decent makos, one whole and one half O. chubutensis, and a particularly nice cetacean tympanic bulla (ear bone). For anyone new to collecting there is disagreement over whether to classify the genus as otodus vs. carcharocles, but whether you go by O. auriculatus vs. C. auriculatus, we are discussing the same species. I enjoy collecting them not only due to their size, but because of the wide variation in shape, as well as their wicked serrations. You will find a picture of my rics down below. Additionally you will see a picture of a cetacean inner ear bone, either a whale or dolphin (as an aside dolphins are whales! but I digress). From my reading, there is no correlation between the size of a cetacean ear bone and the size of the animal it came from, still, my one and only mammal fossil that I am proud to have found. These finds are the culmination of many hours out in the field, and many more reading papers, talking with my friend, and my back begs me to reiterate, many, many hours in the field. While better quality and larger teeth have been found (many by my friend) they've given me hope that I may be able to find some exceptional pieces in the future. I've included a close-up of my larger ric as it shows its color with greater accuracy. The smallest ric is the most well preserved of the group, as smaller teeth often are. Thanks for viewing, Steve
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Out hunting Monday. 1st time in a while. Low expectations. This is a challenging location to reach. In the 1st sieve , found a connected turtle osteoderm. That was nice... A number of items that could be teeth, but too beat up to identify. Shark teeth were Bull, Dusky, Tiger This request is about these 3 fossils: 1) I know the tympanic bulla Identification because of a great previous posting by @Harry Pristis.which I saved to my local disk. The find is fragile ans thin... likely in development pre_birth. Just wanted to confirm the identification.. 2) About the same size... similar to a carpal/tarsal, Great quality with small lines not yet eroded. 3) , the larger bone. It is complete, pristine, with lots of fine lines, not removed by water erosion.. My memory is failing. I have seen these before. Size is Length 60 x Width 30 x Height 30 millimeters. All suggestions appreciated.
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My wife and I made our way down to North Carolina for the Aurora Fossil Museum's Fossil Festival last weekend. Overall it was a pretty productive trip and we came away with well over 1000 shark teeth, some nice shells, lots of ray teeth, some shark, fish and cetacean verts, small cetacean teeth and a bucket of coral pieces. We heard many of the regulars say that the tailings weren't as productive as other years, but I saw quite a few nice specimens being collected. A few of the larger teeth, most of ours were damaged, but some of the colors are great: Lots of smaller teeth, I will try to take some better pics once I get them sorted and layed out flat: Ray teeth and spines: All the verts were pretty beat up: A good sampling of shells: Crab claws: Sea Urchin spines: I couldn't manage to find a whole cow shark tooth, but I did see a gorgeous little complete one come out of the hole next to me. Here are a few partials we found: A few micro samples, I did grab a few jars of sifted matrix once I realized how many small teeth were falling through And lots and lots of coral my wife wanted for some project she wants to do: Overall it was a good time. We met a lot of friendly and interesting folks and my wife already asked if I wanted to book the place we stayed to come back next year. Thanks for looking, Randy
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While walking in the early morning in Corolla, NC 2 weeks ago I was distracted by a black bird that lead me to find this vertebra. I've never found anything like this at the beach so I thought I would ask for some help here. The only thing I've found that looks like it is here - scroll down to Xiphiacetus (Eurhinodelphis) bossi Dorsal Vertebra - Plate 7 - #5 https://www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/mammal/marine/eurhinodelphis/eurhinodelphis_miocene.htm Thanks in advance for any answers! Jennifer
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Hi guys, not too sure how reliable the provenance on this is but it’s supposedly from cadzand, Netherlands, I got it in a lot of dolphin tooth, but the serration reminded me of squalodon which it obviously isnt but I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas
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7 feet at Zolfo makes it very difficult (dangerous) to hunt the Peace River. I just got off the phone with my fossil hunting partner. Likely we'll go Monday trying those shallow spots we marked during season. That is because we are more stubborn than Bighorns. Makes me think back to Tuesday. We tried a location that has produced some miocene finds, but we had been there many previous times, and ignoring small teeth, there were few finds. Might be a croc tooth, but I would not argue if someone said gator. The reason I made this a FossilID thread This fat rooted small tipped dolphin tooth are rare.. My first fragment at 23 mm length and only 50% complete. My friend @jcbshark found an associated group of similar but larger teeth 3 years ago, but I know of no other examples from the US Eastern coast. Requesting examples and comments on fat rooted small dolphin teeth. @Al Dente @MarcoSr @Boesse
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I was out hunting yesterday to a miocene_pliocene site that produces mostly small shark teeth with occasional surprises. In this instance there were three. 1st up... Upper molar Nannippus aztecus (11-5 mya) upper molar. Certainly Nannippus, likely aztecus based on size and location. Next , my unknown, a dolphin periotic earbone, 29 x 16 mm well worn and found in a miocene site. @Boesse And finally a Bison or Bos lower m3 unerupted enamel cap .. no roots. I was quite excited seeing the complete enamel in excellent unworn quality. But based on size and lack of wear, it is probably Bos... Looking for any different opinions
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I' m a local photographer in Flagler Beach, FL. I frequent a local beach almost daily. I have come across quite an interesting find. Currently due to stormy weather causing rough waves and some higher than normal tides the rocks have been sliding down into the ocean and breaking apart. Well a wonderful treasure was exposed in one of the rocks. A skull. There is also a tooth and what looks to be bone vertebrate. I am in the process of excavating currently but would love to know who this skull belongs to. Any help is appreciated!!
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I found this tiny tooth in a creek in Summerville South Carolina. Help with an id would be greatly appreciated. I’ve seen a couple other posts with a similar tooth where the consensus was undetermined species. Is this the case with this tooth as well? Thanks in advance!
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Out to the Peace River, FL twice this week, Tuesday & Saturday. Was busy tracking down an ID for what turned out be an eagle or large hawk toe bone. With that done and a trip out yesterday I thought I would combine the two visits into one trip report. The weather was perfect both days with temps in the mid 80*s. The water flow and level were excellent and visibility great. It was easy to see the bottom and anything laying there. A shot of the morning paddle to the dig site - Got there and started digging with the first good find being the phalanx or toe bone mentioned above: The usual array of small shark teeth kept a steady flow into the sifter and then along came a small antler followed by a chunk of mammoth tooth and a turtle leg spur. There was also a large bone piece that may be part of an alligator maxilla. An armadillo scute and turtle scute rounded out the day for variety. I usually take a break and do a walk around the area where I am hunting just looking to see if anything interesting is sitting on the bottom. This day I was surprised to see two perfect pieces of a turtle plastron or underside. I picked them up in about two feet of water and was surprised how clean they were. They are obviously modern, but I kept them was my son has an oddity and taxidermy business and will surely find a buyer for them. Later I came up with a rounded bone that I think may be a patella. The only one I could find at the size of the specimen is bear. I will be doing more research on this one and may post it in the ID section for help. Headed home in the late afternoon and took a few more pictures of the river. In the first you can see how clear the water is, notice the branches on the bottom. In the last photo you can see can see three Ibis sitting in the tree over the river - its a good idea not to paddle under them! Yesterday turned out to be another great day with some exciting finds. The morning turned up probably the largest piece of antler I have found at 4" long and 1.5" around. About mid morning a Tapir tooth with roots popped up along with a partial vert that I have yet to identify. Shark teeth continued to appear in each clean out. Took my break for a walk around and suddenly came upon what seems to be the rest of the turtle plastron/underside shell pieces from the poor deceased turtle I found part of on Tuesday - Now I really have a package for my son's collection! To my pleasant surprise the afternoon turned up another Tapir tooth crown and a 1/2 crown. A dolphin tooth and a half of another one wound up in the sifter a little later. Continuing the Dolphin theme a periotic also managed to turn up. Another vert came up but it is probably too damaged and encrusted to be able to ID, but I kept it anyway. A small set of modern deer teeth also appeared. Some photos of the two days worth of finds - First group -left side - cup of miscellaneous shark teeth,3 tapir teeth/crowns, one dolphin tooth, one partial dolphin tooth, dolphin periotic right side - Snaggle tooth shark, tiger shark, lemon shark Some of the larger finds - Left side - Gator maxilla (?), two turtle leg spurs, mammoth tooth chunk, two small pieces of ivory Right side - Antlers, unk vert, armadillo scute, patella(?) It was a rewarding two days and I am looking forward to getting back next week!
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Found on beach in outer banks. 10 inches by 12 inches Any help with id would be appreciated
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Got back to the Peace River Fl yesterday. When I set off in the kayak at 0820 am it was breezy and a chilly 53* F. The wetsuit was definitely needed if I was going to stand in the river all day. The water was crystal clear and with the sun out it made for a beautiful day. I took some photos after the sun had risen enough to clear the overhanging trees and light up the water. I got back to the gravel bed I have been working on my last few visits and found it undisturbed. Its not off the beaten path and with the water so clear I had feared others might have noticed the gravel and started digging through it. It wasn't long before I came up with what was enough to make my day - a nice dolphin tooth! As usual I was getting many small shark teeth in every screen and this always keeps me encouraged as I dig for the next nice find. On this day that turned out to be a nice Armadillo Osteoderm. I was satisfied that if I found nothing more than small shark teeth for the rest of the day it was a great day on the river. But, alas, it was not to be. A little later a horse molar came up, then a dolphin periotic, followed by a camelid tooth. After a lunch break and a chance to warm up in the sun I got back to digging and came up with a tapir tooth crown, another horse molar, several turtle and tortoise leg spurs, four large chunks of giant tortoise shell, a small armadillo osteoderm, a large chunk of a limb bone, a cetacean vert, what may be a piece of tusk or horn, a possible astragalus and a couple of unknowns I will be trying to ID. Some photos of the overall finds: And some close ups: Camelid tooth Dolphin periotic- Tapir tooth crown: Cetacean Vert: The possible astragalus - if anyone thinks otherwise or can offer an ID as to species please chime in. The ruler is showing mm. A good and satisfying days work that left me tired, sore and happy I have the chance to do this as often as I like!
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I looked through the non-shark tooth finds and there was a lot I didn’t know. Hopefully some of this can be identified. 1. Dolphin teeth, can they be further identified? I’m not sure if all these are cetacean but at least some are. @Boesse I’d appreciate your input. 2. a large tooth, is it a big fish or something else? 3. An image of more fish teeth, all appear to be from the same type. 4. This variety of fish teeth is much more narrow. 5. the last fish tooth variety, flat and broad. 6. I have a feeling, not all these are the same thing but anyone know what it is? 7. Very strange and I have no idea but it’s symmetric. 8. Fish tooth maybe? It splits in to two parts at the one end. 9. it sort of resembles a crab carapace but I doubt it since I haven’t heard of those from here. 10. No idea, looks like two plates of something. 11. Is this identifiable? It looks like bone but has a strange outer layer. 12. I have no idea what this is but it has a very cylindrical shape. 13. It almost looks like a shark tooth but on the back there is no sign of enamel. 14. Any idea what this is? I’ve seen an image of these before but they weren’t identified. 15. I assume this is a fish part but is it possible to tell which part? 16. Last, finally, it looks like a tiny vertebra but the sides show no vertebra structure. There is also a small hole that goes all the way through. Attached is a view from the top and an oblique view that shows the side. Like always, thank you for your help. The knowledge here is unparalleled.
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Acquired this Miocene Dolphin Jaw section and have now had someone say is from a pinniped... I'm unsure on the mammal fossils, so some expert advice is needed... Item was purchased as follows: This Miocene fossilized dolphin jaw piece was found in eastern, North Carolina, USA. This fossil jaw piece measures approximately 3.39" from side to side. There is NO restoration or repair on this fossil.
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Fossil recovered inland Venice, FL. Located in Pleistocene material while digging pond. Equus, Camel, Tortoise, Alligator, and Whale teeth have been found in this material. This is the first time I have recovered this type of tooth. Other whale teeth I found nearby are 2x as long and 5x wider. Looking for some help with this ID. Thank you in advance. -Michael
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Dolphin teeth Caldera, Chile
Jurassicz1 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I found these for sale. Some Dolphin teeth from Caldera, Chile, Miocene. Are they real? And if so are they from the Bahia Inglesa Formation? Adriano
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Hunting this week, and the highlights of one trip were 2 ear bones, one small dolphin and one larger. The dolphin is smaller than any I have ever found, @Boesse and then another, somewhat similar to Equus but a lot bigger, somewhat similar to mastodon but smaller. A couple of years back, @PrehistoricFlorida put a 2 inch mastodon ear bone up on online. I now wish I had purchased it for comparison purposes. Mastodon on the left of 1st photo. My new find is L 39 H 46 W 28 mm. There is not a lot of material out there on fossil mammal ear bones. Let me know if you see the similarities....
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Hi! I found this bone on a remote, virgin beach in northern Iceland just the other day. I’m completely green when it gets to those topics and have thus no idea what it can have come from. Possibly a piece of a large fish or seal vertebra? Any ideas? Can anybody help me identify the bone?
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Hey prob got a simple one, thinking it's a sperm whale tooth, but it is not hallow. I found it in in Sarasota FL in mostly a bunch of shell. I seen what looked like whale bone fragments, tiger shark teeth, Hastalis and great white teeth and randomly a rhino tooth, but not in the exact pile. It's 4.41"
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What type of vertebrae are these, found at a land site in Sarasota
Finding Florida posted a topic in Fossil ID
Founded at a land site in Sarasota. I think it's alligator, what kind of vertebrae are these
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Yesterday I made one last trip to the Peace River to end this hunting season. When I checked the depth and flow gauges it showed both had increased as a result of recent rain but not enough to make a trip unsafe. The one caveat was the prediction of rain and possible thunder storms in my target area by 2 pm. It is really the threat of afternoon thunder storms almost everyday now that is the impetus to end the season. So, I got an early start and was on the river by 7:40 am with the intention of calling it a day by 2 pm. I headed back to the spot I have been digging in for the last four trips. I have been widening my search area as the gravel continues to be plentiful under an initial layer of sand. On arrival the first sifter turned up what appeared to be a good sized, if somewhat deformed, molar that I guessed to be bison. The next sifter also produced what I thought was a possible broken bison tooth (later I was able too see it was a broken horse tooth). This got me excited to think I already had a couple of nice finds to end the season. As I kept digging, pulling up small shark teeth of every variety in each load I became aware of the dark clouds that were continuously sliding by overhead. I pulled up a partial dolphin bulla, turtle scute and complete turtle entoplastron along with a bone that looked to me to be some kind of scapula. At one point a large black cloud rolled in and it rained for about 20 minutes. I didn't worry it would last as I could see blue skies in all directions beyond the storm cloud overhead. Just before noon I threw a shovel full of sand and gravel into the sifter and as the sand fell away there sat a beautiful and complete dolphin tooth. One of the largest I have found! I went to secure it in my kayak right away when I noticed that the dark clouds were no longer sliding by - they seemed to be filling the sky. I decided at that point that if I came up with one more good find I would call it a day. I didn't want to get caught in a thunderstorm on the river. I kept digging for almost an hour and did not come up with that trip worthy find. Looking at the sky I told myself one more load in the sifter and no matter what I did or didn't find I had better head for home. As soon as I dumped the next shovel full of gravel into the sifter I started to laugh as sitting right on top was a very nice astragalus! Deer based on the size. I scooped it up along with the misc shark teeth around it and loaded up the kayak for may paddle back to the car. Just as I pushed off the shore the sky opened up and the rain started pouring down! Thankfully there was no lightening! So the season came to an appropriate end with some nice finds as the rainy season begins. I may try some creek hunting over the summer but the Peace River will have to wait forSeptember at least. Here is a shot of the nicest specimens found yesterday: The astragalus measures 37 mm long x 23 mm wide x 2 mm tall The dolphin tooth measures 31 mm long x 12 mm wide The crown of the suspected bison tooth is 12 mm x 20 mm and 10mm high. I am going to post more photos of the possible bison tooth in the id section along with what I think is some type of scapula to hopefully get a positive id. Good Luck to all those still hunting - I will admit the story of the guy attacked by the alligator in the Myakka River may have also influenced my decision to end the season -LOL!
