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We found this jaw bone about 2 ft in depth around a pond that was dug out. I looked up raccoon which seemed to be obvious but it doesn’t have any front teeth. Can you help out by identifying? Thank you. I’m pretty sure it’s not very old. I'm just having a hard time identifying it. Thank you.
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Hi! I am new to the forum and looking for some great hunting tips! I have loveeed shark tooth hunting for as long as I can remember, so I was very excited to discover this forum. Looking to expand my knowledge and possibly try and get some recent finds identified.
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I am sifting with a 1/4 sieve in a layer of what I think is original ocean bottom (Florida). I found 2 small teeth that I thought were Mako and Sandtiger, but now I think neither is correct. The darker tooth without a pronounced nutrient grove is C. hastalis found years ago in the Peace River. Additional photos of Shark tooth #1 Additional photo of Shark tooth #2
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Found this fossil on a beach in southwest Florida. Looks to be like a claw or tooth? Interesting that it has a flat bottom.
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Florida, Peace River. Arcadia LINK
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Picked this up yesterday. It is easy to get excited on a small package. Looks like G. aduncus symphyseal but is much wider than the ones I see on a google search.
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Hello there, very excited to have found this forum. Anyway, this fossil was found 28’ below ground level, on the north east coast of Florid. It was in a gravel pit in basically beach sand. It was a mix of sand and cocina rock. This is about a mile away from the current coast line. It’s measurements are approximately 83 cm x 61 cm x 30 cm
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Another tooth I found at Venice FL. I’m thinking a very worn and beat up great white. I think it has character. What do you think? Thanks! -HT
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Another tooth I found yesterday at Venice FL. Curious about what kind of tooth. Maybe a snaggletooth or a great white? It’s bout as big as my finger tip. I’m not super experienced, so any help is appreciated! Thanks for taking a look. -HT
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One of the teeth I found yesterday at Venice. It’s about as small as my finger tip, but it’s a pretty tooth. My best guess is hemipristis or snaggletooth? Thanks for taking a look! -HT
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My friend’s find from Venice FL. Looks like a tooth, but what kind? Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -HT
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Hunted Beach near Venice FL-lots of teeth! Do I have any megs?
Hugo Tran posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I went down to a beach in Venice Fl today (not Venice beach) and found a lot of teeth! I haven’t counted them yet FYI. I have a couple that I think are megs that I will upload pictures for soon. There was great weather as well. Some of the ones I picked up have awesome color.... But anyways, it was a really good trip, and I would like to know if I have any megs here. I will upload two teeth that look like megs to me, but if you guys spot anything in my large picture, please let me know! Thanks! -HT
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Trying to do some organizing and labeling of these teeth that I have collected over the past 10 years. But first.... I'm hoping for confirmation of my opinions on some and help with a few that I'm not sure about. Most of these are from the Suwannee River but a few of the Makos are from Venice FL about a mile offshore in 17-23 feet of water. Thank you! Pretty confident of Mako for the group of six. Pretty confident of Auriculatus for the single (heartbreaker) (a very rare find for me from the Suwannee - by far the largest and brightest color shark tooth I've found there) Not sure about the two that resemble sand tiger or (mackerel?) I don't think they are sand tiger. Not sure about the two that have small cusp lets. I don't think they are Auriculatus
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Hello! I found this a few days ago in Parrish, FL at my fossil site. Not quite like anything I ever found before. It is 1 3/4” (44mm) long. It appears to have a hole running through the middle. The thinner tip looks chipped and the wider end has evidence of ridges that look like a walnut or similar. At first I thought seed or nut, but now that I keep looking it almost looks like a cetacean tooth. Really have no clue. Please help ID. Thanks so much.
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Found this hunting for shark teeth at a beach this morning. Sadly, no teeth. This however caught my eye. The one little “black coloration” looks like it has a stem and then extends out to a larger part, so maybe fossil seaweed? It might be just a rock. Let me know what you think please. Thanks!
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I was introducing my great_nephew Jake to the Peace River, he foscused in "small, tiny" fossils and found some good stuff... One was shark teeth, and the other a claw. looks birdlike to me so calling on @Auspex to help ID or just speculate. The 6mm shark teeth: The 7 mm claw: All suggestions and comments appreciated.
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Out hunting, found a nice single mammoth tooth plate (it only takes one of these to make my day), and 3 finds I am not sure about. 1) A caudal vertebrae, 3x width to height. Something with a tail but not a gator or dolphin.... 2) A small hoof core 3) and a broken bone with a telltale "collar" on the tip of my tongue but just can not place it... A blowup of the hoof core....
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So I found this bone in miocene area where I normally hunt for sharks teeth, this was found in a big gravel bed where I was finding turtle shell pieces, dugong bones, a few sharks teeth here and there, part of a big vert that ill post later, as well as many bone parts that I can't identify. However this bone is the most interesting thing I have pulled from this spot. At first I thought it was dugong because that's most of what I find. But then I noticed it was hollow in the shaft of the bone making me question what it could be because as far as I know the only things with hollow bones are birds. Any and all help would be amazing because I am lost. Ps: I'm sorry the colors are so blown out. I raised the exposure on the images because the fossil is so dark it was hard to see details in the pictures.
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Hi all, I was going through the haul of Amelia Island shark teeth that I collected as a kid, and I found a vertebra that I had forgotten about among the teeth. Its quite small, maybe half a centimeter the long way. I'm pretty sure the thing is roughly Miocene aged along with the rest of the fossils that show up on Amelia beaches (Although my understanding is that they are pulled up through dredging so I could be completely wrong!). Its pretty heavily weathered from the ocean so I'm not expecting a miracle here, but I'd love to learn a bit more about my (re)discovery!
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Here are a couple of verts that I found very close to each other. I am not sure if they are from the same critter or not. I am not sure if they are fossil or recent, but if I had to guess, I would guess they are recent or Holocene. Any ideas what these are? Verts give me trouble - they are rarely what I think they are.
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I'm a bit new to fossil hunting but was looking to try some this summer. I've been looking for sites from multiple sources, and was wondering if anyone had any good locations to recommend. I live in the Tampa area, and am looking for fossil locations around the region between Tampa and the Peace River. My largest concern is flooding of the river and that it will be too deep. Are there still other options? Does anyone have recommendations? Thanks
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Was told this is capybara or beaver.. leaning towards beaver. Can anyone confirm? Found on a creek near the Peace River!
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Hi all. Found my first Florida creek meg!! It's broken but holy cow, the feeling of when I saw it in the screen!!! I'll gladly take it. Went on a fossil hunting tour this past weekend on a creek near the Peace River. Found some awesome other stuff as well. Water was so low!!!
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So I took a trip down to Florida and tried my luck in the peace river, i found a bunch of awesome stuff but this one piece stumped me I can’t seem to figure out what it’s from. Any thoughts??
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Parietobalaena Donation
PODIGGER posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
As a new fossil hunter I am thrilled to have found what the Florida Museum of Natural History has determined to be "an important scientific discovery". After notifying the Museum of the find they have asked that the specimen be donated in accordance with Florida law. I am happy to do so. The specimen will be added to state's fossil collection for preservation and research. Specimen specifics: Common/Scientific name - Parietobalaena (Kelloggithere) baleen whale ear bone Geological formation/age - Miocene Region where found - Hardee County, Florida USA Museum/Univ. receiving fossil - Florida Museum of Natural History- 12 replies
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