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Hello, I'm looking for an ID on a relatively well preserved marine fossil found in a south florida gravel bed with many bivalve and brachiopod fossils nearby. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Hi Again! Found this over the weekend really nice shape with full intact root. I think its actually 2 teeth stuck together. I did alot of searching, wasnt able to really find anything similar. hipparion; 3-toed horse? tapir perhaps or maybe a deer? any one reconize this? Thank you as always to the community! size is 1.25 Ince (31mm) wide and same from top to root. The teeth themselves are fully intact and small about 3/4 inch (19mm) the tooth on the left in first picture and 1/2" (12mm) on the right Hawthorn Group, Peace River Formation, Bone Valley Member which ranges from Miocene to Pliocene.
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Can anyone help me ID this tiny tooth found in the Peace River near Arcadia, Florida?
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Here is another unusual find from the Cookie Cutter matrix. Years ago I found a similar on from a different location. Is it possible to narrow this down to shark or ray?
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I could use some help on this one, please. It is the only specimen like it that I have found in the Cookie Cutter matrix from Florida. If it is a ray tooth, which ray? I had considered Mustelus, as it is similar to others from different matrices in my collection. Thanks for looking.
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I drove down to Mulberry Phosphate Museum to see if it was allowed to sit and hunt. I knew the Museum was closed but the gravel pile was OK and no signs.. also drove to the peace river and threw the rod a couple of times. Wore my mask, only 1 couple there when I arrived and they left and just me. Found shark teeth and some ray teeth. Made sure to wear my mask. This is the finds from today. Everyone Stay safe, I see states beginning to open beaches and other places. Keep digging!
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I went back to Zolfo Springs again yesterday to make use of the 94 degree day before the predicted cold front and rain came in. Nobody else on the river as the day was supposed to be pretty windy, but it held off almost until I was on my way back to the truck. Decent results with a bison incisor, nice little meg and mako and a cool little canine. The canine is about the length and contour as a domestic house cat and a little thinner and less curved than a raccoon. Nice day out.
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Spending some time in the house picking through some micro-matrix I collected last time I was out on the Peace River. The fine gravel is more worn and polished than from other sites (like Cookiecutter Creek) but that is to be expected since the Peace is a much larger waterway with a greater flow (especially in the summer when the gravel is being deposited). Most of the small shark teeth tend to be worn as well but not as much as you'd find from specimens picked up from the surf zone of places like Caspersen Beach in Venice, FL which produce a lot of teeth that look like they've been through a rock tumbler. Few novelties seem to come from the Peace River micro-matrix (compared to other micro-matrix sites in Florida) but an interesting little ungual turned up yesterday. My suspicion is that this is likely a turtle claw core but I see so few of these that I can't distinguish avian from terrapin. Anybody have a thought on this little find? It measures 7.5 mm from end to end. Cheers. -Ken
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I recently moved to Florida and I am paleontologicaly (I know I didn't spell that right or if it's even a word) frustrated. I bought a special screen rake to hunt for sharks teeth on the beach. Before I had a chance to use it, we went on lockdown. I haven't done much in the way of fossil collecting or prepping the last few years and was looking forward to getting set up in my new garage and going over boxes of new fossils to ID and prepare. The problem is that all my fossils and equipment is in a storage unit just a few miles from the house and my wife won't let me get them. We are on lockdown and the matter how much I beg and plead she will not let me leave the house. So I just thought I'd vent to my fossil buddies on the forum. There, I feel better already. Here's a thought. 20 years from now the country will be run by kids homeschooled by daytime drinkers. Lord help us. Tom
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With extra time, I have been landscaping , sorting, and cleaning out fossil deposits around the house. I have rediscovered a number of unusual items. This being one of the most unusual. 3 to 1 marine versus land fossils. Once found a Llama sacrum that resembled this at 10-15x the size. Thought about fish nose, but never found one and really do not know.
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I found this interesting looking bone in the peace river yesterday sitting exposed in a gravel bar, I think it’s a rib but I’m not positive. Also is it possible to identify what animal it would’ve come from? Or at least a relative size of animal?
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Before pictures are shown, I want to give @MikeR special thanks for helping to ID my finds. I spent countless hours attempting to name my specimens before showing them to Mike. So I am sure he too donated many hours of help to me. Lets say my batting average was a little under 50% (which included obvious ones that I did not send to him) in correctly IDing the shells. Hats off to my teacher!!!!! Less than 50% does mean I received a failing grade. So unfortunately for MikeR, I must repeat his course next year! With my gratitude expressed, let me get on with the topic. There was a wonderful shell bed quarried in the Sarasota, Florida area. That quarry had been abandoned years ago and the most productive piles used in the construction industry now seem to be disappearing. The specimens likely came from this quarry and are from the Tamiami Formation, likely Pinecrest Beds, a late Miocene to Pliocene formation. I have collected and reported on this formation before so many species found this winter are not shown again. These are either my favorites or new specimens for me.
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Found these in the peace river, it's really giving me lots of fun and exercise during my time off work, #1 I think it looks like poop, #2 like a small egg (I did read the post about "if you think you found a egg" and the 3rd a tooth. The last one I posted turned out to be a rock but this one is definitely a tooth. I have looked and many alligator/croc images and I don't believe it belongs to either, looking forward to your opinion, thank you! Peace River Formation is middle Miocene to early Pliocene
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Hi, I am a newbie here, but wanted to see if this might be a trilobite. I found it today while walking in a park in St. Petersburg, Florida. The park is next to the water, and it was located in a field where the soil was recently dug up. Thank you!
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Hi again , I found this in the peace river in Nocatee , FL Looks like I found leg bone to something , It's approximately 8" (200mm) one end is 5" (127mm) wide and the other is 4" (100mm) wide in the middle it's diameter is the size of a large male wrist . Weighs 1050 grams . What you think ?
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Here are a few more of my recent Cookie Cutter matrix finds. I am curious about what kind of fish has / had teeth like the one in this photo. And I am thinking that this is a bit from a fish, possibly a mouth or jaw part. Seems too thick for something like an operculum ... any guesses? And finally, are either of these specimens coprolite? @GeschWhat Thanks for looking.
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Hello I need help to I’d this, my first thought was mammoth or mastodon?
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I was prospecting / hunting yesterday and initially struggled to find a diggable location. After paddling upstream a couple of miles, I noted some debris (and hopefully gravel) on a sandbank coming out from the bank. I stopped to chech it out and almost immediately saw a fragment of horse tooth, pick up a tuttle footpad and then barely covered in water, a high quality 3 inch diameter whale vert. YES!!!! This stuff had to have come downstream, now if I could figure out where. I did find a likely spot with gravel, somewhat smaller than I would prefer. In the 1st sieve, I found a tiny tooth that might be a Meg or might be a Bull..., In the 2nd sieve, I found a tiny tooth that might be a Meg or might be a Bull... In the 3rd sieve, I found a tiny tooth that might be a Meg or might be a Bull... I did not see another tooth or fragment that remotely resemble a Meg: So, which ones are Megs and why.... #1, #2 #3 As an aside, great social distancing, left my vehicle at 6:30 am, returned at 3:45 pm. Never saw a single person.
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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Vokesinotus lamellosus (Emmons, 1858) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Emmons (1958) first described Fusus lamellosus from the Miocene (now Pliocene) of North Carolina and Dall (1890) described Coralliophaga lepidotus from the Pliocene (now Lower Pleistocene) of Florida. Olsson & Harbinson (1953) figured Trophon lepidotus from the Caloosahatchee Formation, however Campbell (1993) listed Urosalpinx lepidotus in the Pliocene of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia overlooking lamellosus entirely. Those shells in the Caloosahatchee have a lower spire than the predominate shells in the Tamiami although some with lower spire heights can be found. For this reason I have chosen V. lamellosus as the high spired species and V. vokesinotus with the lower spire height. If both are the same, the proper name would V. lamellosus with V. lepidotus as a junior synonym by 32 years. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Vokesinotus lepidotus (Dall, 1890) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to V. perrugata except ribs flare out forming winged varices. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Vokesinotus perrugatus (Conrad, 1837) Statigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Spoil, Collier County, Florida USA. Status: Extant Notes: No varices but ribs with delicate scale structure on spirals and interspaces. -
I found this down in the peace river Florida area and it’s got me stumped. 1 perfect tooth in the jaw section intact. A second tooth right behind it that looks split in half. Any ideas?
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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Trossulasalpinx hertwecki (Petuch, 1991) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Quality Aggregates Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: T. hertwecki is common in the Pinecrest. It has a similar texture to T. subsidus, but with sharp angular ribs. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Trossulasalpinx subsidus (Dall, 1890) Statigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande Pit, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: T. subsidus is rare in the Tamiami. Well preserved specimens have spirals with a granular texture. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Muricidae Eupleura brevispira Mansfield, 1930 Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: APAC Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: The most distinguishing characteristic is the upwards pointing varicies.
