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A great day with a good friend. At the very end , he found a jaw segment with 2 teeth. I do not know what it is...Only have photos I think the Jaw is 33 mm with each tooth about 11-12 mm. I have a number of interesting finds.. and little time to research. 1) A bivalve transformed to Silica 2) Botryoidal bubbles. I guess there is a little Druzy there also. These are just fun to find... 3) A lower left jaw m3... 4) A toe bone.. looks similar to Mastodon, but they can not be this small, can they? 24 x 20x 19 mm 5) A carnassial, maybe a lower m1. Look at the lines in the chewing surface of the 2nd photo. 6) A very unusual tooth or tusk fragment. The hollow core might mean whale or Alligator... Thanks for looking. Any identifications greatly appreciated. Jack

Had a great day hunting Friday and decided to hunt the Peace River before the Super bowl yesterday with my friend Steve. I love grabbing a shovel and sieve and just walk into the River. Perfect depth, about 2 inches above my waist. I had another good day as you check my finds below. Steve had a great day! In his 1st sieve, 3 shovel of gravel he found one of those pointy rocks we hear about, followed by a copper button, and then a Meg. He found a Giant Tortoise hoof core and a Tail Buckler. I did not get photos of the rest, but at the end he found a small jaw with 2 teeth I did not recognize. Here are my prizes.. A few flecks of Druzy scattered here and there... A miniture Armadillo Osteoderm.. This is the smallest I have ever seen and look at the patina... I love this one... Followed by a real rarity for me.... an Armadillo front tooth... There is a lot of variety. Here is some of it. I hope that @Harry Pristis can provide an ID on this small premolar.. The size would indicate a small animal. To me, there are always surprises in hunting the Peace.

I finally made it back to one of the most beautiful places to look for one of my favorite fossils - Agatized Coral from the Tampa Bay area. I only had one evening and one morning to search and these are some of the smaller pieces that I have. I brought back about 50 pounds of beautiful corals- most of which I need to cut. Can't wait to see what is inside! If any of you have suggestions for cutting it properly I would love to hear your methods. We had a hammer with us but it became clear we were just shredding the coral. I am thinking of using a wet saw to get some clean cuts. If you are not familiar with it, this site does a nice job explaining it. http://raysrocksandgems.com/Withlacoochee_Coral.html

So you know those spots of cobbles and gravel they use for landscaping around the grocer's and such? I found this outside our local Kroger clone here in Nebraska a few years ago...and have been perplexed ever since. Here is a mystery concretion fossil(?) I've been pondering for a long time: Truthfully when I first saw it, I thought meteorite? Botryoidal hematite? Then I flipped it over and thought, "There is no way this should be here." It doesn't make sense. I'm not even certain this is a fossil, but the microscope tells me it very likely is. I have seen stuff sort of like but not quite like this out of Morocco, but that makes even less sense for a corner curb filled with river rock in Corn Country. Perhaps some child dropped it? Some fellow fossil nut, seeding stuff for kids to find? Usually I find a bit of sandstone and limestone cobbles with a fossil or two, but this is just strange. So, I'm calling twonky. (Those that know, nod. Those that don't, google.) No clue, me. Anyway, anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped at this one. If it is what it appears to be, I'm not even certain of the critter type. How it got to where I found it will likely be a mystery forever I suspect. What I do know is that Mohs is between 7 and 8,(which doesn't make sense to me as that's a bit harder than most hematites I am familiar with) and should in no way shape or form be where I found it or even be where the river rock was likely sourced from. Did I get bamboozled by a prankster? WEird.

Here are several more rocks I cut open today and was pleased at the results. The first three were collected at various locations between Utah and Arizona. 1. The first photo I would call a landscape agate with (use your imagination here) a scene on an alien planet during a crazy lightning storm. On the right side there was an indention in the surface, however, it was filled with perfectly clear agate like a window. 2. The second photo is known as St. John's (Arizona) Flower Agate. 3. The third photo shows some lovely botryoidal and plume agate. 4. The final submission is a Mexican Coconut Thunderegg that really surprised me when I opened it up. There appears to be (use your imagination here, again) the head of a dinosaur coming out of the mist to nibble on a tree. Do you see it?

I have some, what I believe to be, calcareous tufa. I will be posting photos of different specimens over multiple posts and days. All specimens are in partially composed of botryoidal chalcedony. My main question has to with the fact that botryoidal chalcedony is a known pseudomorph in marine fossils. Many of my specimens look like they could be stromatolite-ish or algae-like. Does anyone have knowledge or experience with botryoidal chalcedony and its association with fossils? Can stromatolites or algae sediments become pseudomorphed into botryoidal chalcedony? The calcareous tufa rock that I will post in this message is definitely fossiliferous. You can plainly see three small marine fossils on the bottom-side of the fossil (What might they be?). Two are casts and one is a mold. Generally this rock is "bowl-shaped" overall with a convex top and a concave underside. The rock's top surface is covered with botryoidal chalcedony. There is a smaller amount of botryoidal chalcedony on the underside. Could the botryoidal chalcedony be a psuedomorph fossil? The first photo (#1) shows the rock's upper-side; The second photo (#1B) shows the underside; The third and fourth photos (#1C & 1C-2) are the same fossil object (cast, about 0.5 mm): The fifth and sixth photos (#1D-1 & 1D-2) are the same fossil object (cast, about 1 mm): The seventh and eighth photos (#1E-1 & 1E-2) are the same fossil (mold, about 1.5mm):