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So I went hunting in Bone Valley yesterday, the same paid dig site I had originally gone to and met @Nimravis at, and came away with some gorgeous finds! To start off with my favorite find - a part of a Gomphothere tooth and a few other fragments: Then of course, as always, some Megs - found 3 complete ones with a bunch of frags, the complete ones are all small, 2”, 1.5”, and 1.2” in slant height: I also found a very complete Three-Toed Horse tooth: I found a whole bunch of sand tiger shark teeth, including, finally, one with a cusp: A bunch of snaggletooth shark teeth, including one that was presumably digested as most of the enamel is gone: A lone C. Hastalis tooth: A (fish?) vertebrae, barracuda tooth, and sting Ray barb pieces: And finally, what I’ve been told is a Crocodilian Gastrolith, though I’m unsure of it myself and will be posting it in the ID page: Overall an awesome trip and I will definitely be going back again!
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Hunting yesterday, We usually pack it in at 2 pm, start the journey home. It is about that time. This is generally a marine, Miocene environment. Bone is an unusual find. I pick this out of the sieve because it flashes blue. At first, I think tooth, and that's exciting, but then I see the brown and not so sure. Also rock can be agatized into blue colors here. Anyways, toss into the collection bag and on to the next sieve. Pretty Interesting? This is the photo that grabs my attention. 47 x 24 mm
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Out yesterday. Hunting one of the few spots available during the summer rains. It is mostly marine, sharks, rays, etc. Lots more effort for far fewer finds. Finding any bone is unusual, and I keep everything not a rock, and sometime I keep the rocks also.. There is a rock in this photo, but it LOOKED like a bone while hunting! I sort out all the small shark teeth, keeping jewelry grade and 10 of the best unbroken ones. The rest go to my hunting partner, who sells them on online. It is a recognition of all the contributions he makes to my hunting success. There was one additional find at the end of the day that pleased me. Took a photo and gave it to Steve. He is better at a lot of things including cleaning, polishing finds. A couple of almost jewelry grade teeth... think earrings. I think the bone in upper right is turtle, unusual for this location. Then this bone I recognize as marine mammal, in this case Dolphin. Whales, Dugong, Manatee have very similar proximal ends. For any who have insights into dolphin ribs, let me know if you agree. I did not think it was much of a day in terms of finds early, but into the stretch, I closed rapidly. This is one find in the photo that excites me. See if you can spot it before I post a separate Fossil ID thread.
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@siteseer I was looking at a thread from 2010 that you were participating in and it was about a “shell tooth”. I found this piece a couple weeks ago, while in Florida, collecting at a Bone Valley site. I was wondering if there actually are “shell teeth”, and if so, do you think that this is one? Thanks for any assistance.
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Was digging/sorting through my fossils this morning - had a couple that I hadn’t yet gotten ID’d and wanted to ask about! So first is this tooth I originally thought was Carcharhinus of some kind, but on a close look it’s got no serrations at all, which is making me wonder if it’s a C. Hastalis? Second up is… whatever this is. Fish mouth plate of some kind? One side of it the “bubbles” pop out, the other side they’re craters. And finally, what I originally thought was gator tooth, then thought may have been antler, and I’m now back to thinking tooth but not sure what: Thanks in advance!
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From the album: Sharks
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From the album: Sharks
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From the album: Sharks
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On my recent visit to search through Bone Valley material for megalodon teeth, I also was collect screened material to bring home to search in the Winter. I have been going through some and have been quite pleased. Here are a couple pics of my finds, I was wondering if the last 2 pics are a portion of a drumfish mouth plate? @MarcoSr
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While on Sanibel Island, Florida, I decided to visit a “fee site” called Bone Valley Fossil Farm, located in Bowling Green, Florida. I ran across this site a couple weeks ago while searching the internet. I made a reservation last week to visit today. It has been in existence I believe for several months. It is located on a family farm and the owners excavate down to the fossil layer and then bring the material to the “Searching Stations” and parcel it out in sections. The nice thing with the way that they do this is that your car is 20 feet away from the section that you selected to hunt. There are a few options and I believe young kids a free, but you would have to double check. They have half day visits and you can select to collect in the AM (8a-noon) or PM (Noon-5pm). I chose to collect for a full day, which was 8am-5pm. I feel that the full day is they best way to visit and it give me you time to go through your section. If you run out of material, they bring you more. I was not the fastest searching since I was sifting for the purpose of having smaller material to search through later. I left at 6 am and made the 2 hour trip to the designated meet up area. Once there, you sign a release, pay for your visit- cash, and then you select a folded up piece of paper that has the section that you are going to hunt. The meet up area is below- The farm is a 5 minute drive to the collecting site. Driving on the farm road, the fog was terrible during most of my 2 hour drive. The first look at the site, I had section #4. I brought three sifters with me so I could take home some smaller material to search during the Winter. I did bring a small rake and a shovel, but I ended up using the ones that they provided. I believe that there is another site that has “dry hunts” and you sift or search through dry material. In my opinion, this site is better since they provide water hoses to go through the material in your section . If you do visit, plan on getting wet. It was 89 degrees (F) today and there is no shade, unless you set up a tent or go to your car, people did it both ways today, I opted to just search. Next to me I met a nice couple and the husband, Daniel, just joined the Forum today. @Meganeura, they found some nice stuff, much more than me. It is the luck of the pile. Here is the first Meg that was found and few piles away from me. Here are some more pics of the site. As you can see, it gets very muddy. CONTINUED ON NEXT POST-
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Went with my wife to a pay site today - our second time here, but I convinced her to let me stay all day instead of just half the day this time! Overall it was a very lucrative hunt, and I’ve walked away with my new fav finds! Also had the pleasure of meeting @Nimravis who told me to post here, as well as taught me about a bunch of the fossils I found. Anyway, the finds: Starting with my fav, a mostly intact whale vertebrae: My new favorite Meg tooth - which happens to have lightning in the root: A baby posterior Meg tooth: And multiple Meg fragments, including a file/hollow tooth: A partial mako and multi-layered ray mouth plate: Some gorgeous snaggletooths, sting ray barb, shark vertebrae, and bone/antler that my wife found that we’re not sure what it is: And the rest of the many teeth and ray plates and other fossils we found: Overall it was an awesome day! Next week I’ll be taking a canoe down Peace River and will hopefully have some fun finds to share!
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I’m currently at a pay site, collecting Bone Valley fossils. An individual next to me found this bone fragment, can someone identify what it is? It looks familiar, but what it is is not coming to mind right now. @Shellseeker
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hi gang, So this item is up for sale at a site that I cannot name. It is labeled "Bone Valley mammal tooth". I am thinking cetacean, but the root is awfully compressed. Thoughts? It's about 3.5 )9cm) inches long. Cetacean tooth? thanks
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Head down to Ocala to volunteer for UF at Montbrook! Would love to be able to hunt after work !
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How Scarce are Fossilized Great White Shark Teeth
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Hello everyone! So something that I have been wondering recently is what is the prevalence of fossilized great white shark teeth? Any time I go online, into shops or shows there seems to be a lack of fossilized great white shark teeth. I always see megalodon teeth, mako teeth, and other fossilized teeth from all kinds of species of sharks but rarely do I see fossilized great white shark teeth. Is this because they aren't as common? Or are they just not as high of a demand as other teeth such as megs or makos? From what I understand they can be found in the Carolinas, Chile, and even here sometimes in south Florida in creeks and sometimes in Bone Valley. I own a few of my own but they weren't easy to find. Please let me know your thoughts. If you own some yourself please feel free to share! I would love to see them! -
Trip to Florida last week was quick and exhausting. Wimped out on the planned Peace river trip, as was in 30s unexpectedly and I had not brought appropriate clothes. Instead did nearby Bone ValleybFossil Farm and enjoyed the day sitting in a lawn chair with a hose, washing out material (laziest AND muddiest fossilhunting ever). Couple next to me found 2 megs, I found three partial megs, dolphin tooth, partial whale tooth (?), fish plate, and about 20 other partial and complete shark teeth (bull, lemon, hemi). Found small piece (2?) of mastodon/mammoth/gomphothere tooth, pretty color and thick, but not enough material to distinguish. And a partial bison(?) In addition found several larger coral pieces in mixed rock/gravel/debris along road near Ft Myers. (weather damaged, construction damage, but good for my collection)! One small mystery piece there, too.
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Hello, So I've very recently learned about bone valley shark teeth, and thinking I might get a nice BV hemipristis serra tooth for my collection. Knowledgable members on this sub have been kind enough to show me examples and inform me that the classic, uniquely identifiable bone valley color is "solid white root + solid dark blade". As I'm still an amateur though, I wanted to ask TFF members to see if these following specimens that I found are indeed distinctively BV hemis, and which one is the nicest example of such? I've posted both lingual and labial surfaces of each. Here they are: 1. Few chips and missing serration, dark blade 2. Bigger chip off, lighter blade 3. Sections of enamel chipped off near the root 4. Lighter blade, a few missing serrations 5. One edge of blade a bit worn, root seems not quite white 6. Enamel a bit light, root not quite white 7. Enamel light, root not quite white Thanks.
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Hey all! I have this Meg from the Bone Valley Formation I have a question on. The tooth has some damage to the bourlette up to the blade. Does this look like it’s from a tool or something during fossilization? It appears to me like it’s old damage but I don’t know from what. Any help is appreciated thanks everyone as always!
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Hi everyone, I have these shark teeth that are between 1/2 in long and 3/4 in long All I'm told it's they are from Sarasota county in Florida. Can anyone tell me a likey species please? Are they Carcharinus sp thank you
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Found this lastnight and call me a rookie but I can't identify if she's a GW or a Meg tooth for the life of me! Beautiful 1.75in almost mother of pearl color with lighting bolt markings (common for the area I explore). No serrations and the root is higher up on the tooth which makes me think GW right!? But then it looks as if the root which typically dips lower on Meg teeth is missing but at some point in time was there! I don't know and when I Google Lens her it says she's an arrowhead??? Plz end my inner mystery...help lol! Jeez I love this stuff 20210805_071105.heic 20210805_071114.heic 20210805_070950.heic 20210805_070943.heic
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Hey Guys! This one is probably a lot more obvious than I'm making it. My head says Megalodon due to the age of Bone Valley and the size, but my gut says white shark due to no Bourlette, the shape of the enamel where it meets the root on the distal and mesial side, and the serrations. So I decided to seek out an outside opinion. This is from Bone Valley Florida. Any insight is greatly appreciated!
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HI EVERYONE! Have not posted in a year. Working 2 jobs leaves no time for nothing but, I did manage to get out a couple times at least to my favorite spots and found something interesting maybe. The most unusual thing about it is the color. I found this in the Peace River Bone Valley formation. The water is tannin in this river colors everything dark. The first pic is a group photo of my finds. You will see it clearly stands out. also including some close-ups and I am sorry I am not great at all taking pictures. Its approx. 2'' at its longest point or 50mm. Its about 1'' or 25mm across. Thank you for any suggestions! Oh the last image is a meg but I found it interesting that the back of this tooth is as thick as the front. could be normal but all the ones I have found the back is relatively flat. When I lay is on a flat surface it wobbles.
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Just sharing the joy. My friend Steve found this Sloth Canine yesterday. Close to maximum size, bluish tint, beautiful. Enjoy. A photo from the internet with tooth in jaw.
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I received a lot of teeth from the Southeastern United States today. I couldn't identify three. While many of these came from Bone Valley, I can't say for certain that these three are from that locality. The only provenance I have to go with is the Southeastern United States. Here are front and back shots for each of the three teeth. The first two are 1/4", while the last one is 1/8". Each has cusps. I would appreciate any help with this. Thank you, Bellamy
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Looking for opinions On whether BV transitional GW or not.
PrehistoricWonders posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey everyone! i was wondering If I could get your opinion on two things with this tooth. 1)does this look like It was found in a BV, golden beach, Etc. location? 2)I had someone suggest that this may be a transitional GW, due to the fact that the serrations are uneven, and get larger, and smaller depending on where you look, even though the serrations don’t seem damaged.
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