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I found this one in early May. When it came out of the water, I thought it might be whale tooth or Gomph Tusk , but now I'm thinking it may be a rib. looking at this 2nd photo, I start to wonder if it is a complete rib, and then the next step down the rabbit hole, If complete, what animal has a rib like this... ? I ask myself such questions because sometimes , it leads to answers..... and sometimes , it does not... This is the 2nd bone I posted in the last hour, and I think I IDed the 1st, but on this one.....not so much.. As always , comments and suggestions always appreciated. Jack

Sorting through material from 4 weeks back. I have never found any Meg fragments at this location. I have found Isurus oxyrinchus, along with other Makos and Great Whites. This one is 11 mm And then ... this 29 mm fish jaw. I find alveoli placement rather odd. Does anyone know of any similar fish jaw? Thanks Jack

When I am hunting, and there is a lot of interesting material and I am running out of time, I over_collect. Anything that looks fossil gets taken for later review. Most of it is unidentifiable bone that gets tossed or donated. This fossil is one of those, but I am thinking that even as broken as it is, it might be interesting. The 1st photo is looking directly down on the chewing surface. At first, I thought no way will I ever identify this tooth. But now I am getting hope. The photo of this tooth is directed left to right along the jaw line of the animal. I am thinking that my thumb is on the tongue side of the jaw. An unusual thing is that the tooth is an hourglass shape, and the length of the tooth running down the jaw is shorter than the width across the jaw. The half hourglass on top is 14 mm and the lower half is 10.5 mm . I am already thinking sloth, glyptodont, giant armadillo.. If you look at the above photo, the left side of the fossil looks like this !!!! The tooth not present has left vertical grooves in the jaw. I have seen similar grooves in the broken fragments of Glyptodont jaws. but the shape of the tooth does not say Glyptodont to me. That seems good enough for a start. Help !!! @Harry Pristis, @digit @Brett Breakin' Rocks @Thomas.Dodson @Plantguy @PODIGGER There is an answer somewhere here.. Additional photos:

Out on a gorgeous. A fossil hunting friend found this 27.3 mm incisor. He asked me to get identification from TFF. Finds from this location are predominately Blancan == Pliocene. On a previous occasion, he found a dolphin tooth, but the root fractured on the way home. He is concerned about the fragility of this incisor's root. The only consolidation experiences I have are Mammoth/Mastodon teeth and bones with Butvar. Should he consolidate this tooth and with what process?

I went hunting with @minnbuckeye Monday and in another thread discussed a couple of Hipparion horse teeth I found. We found lots of fossils. For example, here are 3 unusual ones. One is an Emmons fish tooth, only the 2nd that I have ever found, another a very rare Osteoderm from Pachyarmatherium_leiseyi, and then an oddly worn dolphin earbone (or at least shaped like a dolphin earbone). In this fossil ID thread, I am not trying to ID any of these. Here is a bone to ID. On all 3 photos, you can see bone on bone wear patterns, which seems to imply this bone is almost complete , as opposed to being a broken fragment. Plus I had seen a similar bone and searching tracked down this bone from @Harry Pristis gallery: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/image/39751-camel-fibula/ The bone below is 58 (compared to 43.7 in camel) x 48 x 35 mm. So, is this bone a fibula ?, and if so, which mammals have fibula like this size? !!!

aa Could be small horse, camel, tapir, but not Equus which would be much larger. See Harry's picture in this thread. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/76550-middle-phalanx-fossil-id/&page=2 or his Tapir bones in this one.. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/79479-medial-phalanx/ Thanks for all responses.

When I get home after a hunt, I sort and spread out my good finds, to take photos and then have another pile of fragments and broken bones. I have gone back to that 2nd group to highlight some I am unsure of the ID. The location I was hunting produces mostly late Miocene fossils. Here are a couple .. 1st a broken bone. A friend hunting with me said Deer metatarsal. I am not sure after finding this deer metatarsal from North Florida on the internet, which has a clear groove down the center: and the bone I found which is flat in that section. Could be wear or different type of deer or different mammal. 2nd, a strange tooth fragment ??? While I would love to have an ID, that might be a bridge too far. I settle for anyone who has insight on the nature of the material on the left of this last photo. Is that enamel, tusk ? For example this is very different from fragmented teeth from horse or alligator, or whale... Thanks for all comments & suggestions. Jack

If you had asked me yesterday, what fossil I would most want to find on a hunt today, I would have said a complete large whale tooth. It came my way !!!! and I had a great day with a TFF fossil hunting friend, who guided me to the exact right place to dig! But I have questions. Is or can this 4.5 inch tooth be Kogiopsis .sp? Is the enamel only visible in fossils? I found another whale tooth approximately 20 feet from today's whale tooth (above). Can these two teeth be from the same species? Thanks for all comments and suggestions. Jack