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Pair of 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon teeth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
Here is a pair of 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon teeth. It's hard to beat the variety of colors from this location. -
4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a nice light blue 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth. It's hard to beat the variety of colors from this location. -
4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a nice light blue 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth. It's hard to beat the variety of colors from this location. -
4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a nice light blue 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth. It's hard to beat the variety of colors from this location. -
4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a nice light blue 4.1 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth. It's hard to beat the variety of colors from this location. -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth - Tip
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth - Bourlette
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
4.19 inch Bone Valley Megalodon tooth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Megalodon Collection
This is a stunning 4.19 inch C. megalodon tooth from Bone Valley Florida. This tooth is definitely worth a few extra photos. Besides being large for this location, it is also 100% natural and in amazing condition. With two distinct colors/patterns on the display and non-displays sides, this tooth is one of my new favorites. It's specimens like this that make me excited to collect! -
Hi there! I found this bone last weekend in the Bone Valley Formation in Tampa Florida. It's a massive phosphate deposit that's mined by 'Mosaic'. Any fossils in the deposit won't go through the mining machinery, so the miners pull the chunks out and throw them in a separate bone area - which is just chock full of crazy fossils. These are primarily Miocene fossils (both terrestrial and marine)... but some Pleistocene fossils have been found before. This fossil is the only one of my haul that I just can't identify. Even if we can't figure out what animal it belonged to - I'd be happy to know what kind of bone it is. If it helps - most of the bones I found were dugong. The funky thing about this bone is the 'front' of it has a curve that suggests vertebrae... but the 'back' of the bone is curved in the opposite direction. As if the curves are perpendicular to one another. I think it may be a joint bone. Sorry for all the text - I just want to throw everything I know about this weirdo out there. #1 - What I think is the front of the bone. The bottom part near my thumb is exposed interior - so the bone must have snapped there. The top (towards my fingertips) is exterior bone. #2 - The opposite side. All exterior except for the bottom part where it must have snapped. #3 - Profile of the back of the bone. #4 - Profile of the front of the bone. #5 - Another front profile.
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A friend of mine gave me this tooth. He told me it was dolphin or porpoise, and that he had found it in Bone Valley. Something doesn't look quite right to me with his ID on it, so I figured that I would post some pictures here. My personal opinion is that it is a Seal tooth because of the somewhat triangular shape of the tooth and the hollow root. I have posted pictures of the three sides of the tooth and the root. Please let me know what you think. -Bill H.
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This bird bone was found in Bone Valley. I was told that it is from a raptor/bird of prey, and would like to find out more about what it was from. I have one more photo that I will add in the first comment. -Bill H.
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I have seen many great looking meg teeth from various places, sizes and colors as well as price ranges. So it makes me curious, I have seen a lot of people and dealers talking about the rarity and desirability of certain specific kind of Megtooth, like Bone Valley, Lee Creek, Chilean, etc. I guess Chilean and Aurora Mine one's high prices are due to the rarity and limited supply with no more new materials entering the market. But what about the variety of colors of Megtooth like Red, Larva, Green or I have seen some with multiple colors split on the same root. Is there some kind of general consensus among serious collectors that rank a certain kind of colors to a certain degree of rarity and desirability? Or is it pretty much, purely "If I want this color, I am willing to pay $xxx"? - i.e. just due to the whim of the buyer's desirability or do certain colors have some geological or paleontological implication that makes certain colored specimens more rare and valuable? Thx
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Hey guys, I'm just curious if anyone has hunted one of the bone valley mines in the last few years. I'm going in a few weeks and will most likely be confined to hunting through the "slurry" material. Has anyone that has hunted through the processed material had any luck with whole megs at all? I've heard that you can find hundreds of teeth, but a lot will be broken or worn due to the mining and cleaning processes. Thanks for any input.
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Hey everyone, I have a few trips lined up in the next few months and just wanted to share so that I could maybe get some advice, or just hear some success stories from others who have hunted the same places. My first trip will not actually be in 2012 (but close enough). I'll be heading to Gainesville for a day trip to do some hunting in the creek. I'll need the most advice for this trip because I am completely unfamiliar with the area. I know that the main creeks (Possum, Rattlesnake, etc) are mostly picked over so it is best to search in creeks 'off the beaten path'. I guess any advice for a starting point would be much appreciated. My next trip in early Feb is to a phosphate mine in Hardee county. I cannot believe I finally found a way into one of these mines! Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to at least find one decent meg. Has anyone else been fortunate enough to make their way into one of the Central FL mines? I'd like to hear how it was and what you found. I'll be trying to hit Venice for some diving throughout the Spring. Can't get enough of that place! Hope to get some feedback. I can't wait to find some megs!
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Last Friday, I joined other members of FCOLC (Fossil Club of Lee County) at a Phosphate mine just north of Wauchula Florida. Basically, we are allowed to walk around on a huge area of processed removed overburden -- at this location , the overburden is 16 feet, with the clay and phosphate layers below that level. The mine strips the overburden and processes the phosphate layer. Others found some almost perfect megs, some nice horse teeth, but my own finds were few and far between. Having said that, I always find something of interest. The "processing" usually chips or breaks the majority of teeth as you can see form the photos. I did find what seemed to be mastodon teeth fragments, but I am not sure of the largest piece. Is it tooth or just another rocky concretion? All they all tooth fragments, all rock concretions, or a mixture? It was muddy, some mosquitoes, and rained for the last hour, but I enjoyed the trip -- a lot better that working in the yard and my other more normal activities.
