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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
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From the album: Peace River, Florida 26/12/23
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From the album: Peace River, Florida 26/12/23
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From the album: Peace River, Florida 26/12/23
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Last night I was discussing going Hunting today with an old friend, who is more susceptible to cold than I am. It might not seem cold to you, but starting at 6 am the temperatures ranges from 58 degrees F up to a max of 73 degrees. It was to be partially sunny which usually means about 25% of the time. If you are standing in water and the wind picks up, I might start shivering in a 7 mm wetsuit. Why we we go out today.. Tomorrow and Wednesday are raining almost all day and the rest of the week have lower temps. We decided to go to a location that used to have numerous Black on Black Megs... maybe there were a few left.... We tried hunting for 3-4 hours... evidently many others had sought those Megs also, there were bomb craters and discard piles everywhere. My technique was to avoid the discard piles and leverage the deep holes that some strong fossil hunter had dug for me. 1) Dig deeper than he did !!!! or shovel through a side wall in the discard pile to reach undug gravel. Not all that successful,, about 5 small shark teeth per shovel, many broken or worn. We kept on moving... probing for gravel that contains mammal fossils.. Took a break for lunch, and realized we were running out of time because the wind was picking up ... One thing that I have always thought is that it only takes ONE lightening strike fossil to make a great day... a successful day. Power of positive thinking, or maybe I am just lucky !!! At 1 pm, my friend moves upstream, probing and probing and finally after 5 hours, a couple of small Megs... and then a nice 2 inch lower Mako --- YES. I positioned myself downstream and same distance off the bank. In the 1st seive, a nice Dillo osterderm, and a couple of larger tigers ... Now we are in business !!!!, Next sieve ... nothing !!! Rats.... and then in the 3rd sieve a small posterior black on Black Meg.... big smile , big smile and Eureka !!!!... 5 inches above and to the left of the Meg, a lightening strike !!!! 15 minutes later, we left and stopped at Wendys for the hot Chilli... Great Hunting trip.. long to be remembered.
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This carnassial tooth has a prominent carnassial notch, which suggests to me that its felid vs. canid. Size is 7/8 long by 1/2 inch wide. Seems too big for any small carnivores. Thanks for helping.
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Just got back from the fossil fair at Sanford Civic Center in central Florida, had a great time and brought back some great specimens. There's quite a variety here, but I have quite specific geographic/geological data for each piece, so I'm excited for some opinions. After some careful deliberation, I've decided to make separate posts for each specimen, as I want to thoroughly inspect each piece rather than half-haphazardly glance over all of them. The tag with this fossil reads exactly: "Osteoborus cyonoides Late Miocene- "Hemphillian Ogallala Group Hemphill Co. Texas 'Coffee Ranch Fauna'" Apparently Osteoborus is a synonymous taxon for Borophagus. How does the tag hold up? Thank you very much for your time, much appreciated. NOTE: ruler is in cm, this tooth is quite small.
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Hi everyone, I just received this tooth, it is clearly an upper carnassial of a carnivore, it should come from Gansu, China. Can anyone help me with the identification? Based on it's appearance and what the seller said to me I think it's from the huge mustelid Eomellivora
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Found this a couple of days back... how hard could it be to identify? A lower predator mandible with 1 complete carnassial and two half teeth, vertically split. How many small predators existed in the Florida fossil record? Look at the m1. That is different from both the canid (fox, coyote) m1 and felis (margay, bobcat) m1 you can find on TFF ID threads. So I checked out raccoon and possum ... nope!! Then I started looking at research papers comparing different type of predator m1s. I was always looking for the smaller predators. Then I stumbled on an old TFF thread, http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78879-mammal-tooth/ and once again @Harry Pristis makes an ID. His photo pictures across the internet are an invaluable resource to the Florida Fossil Hunter. Most TFF members, except Harry, will need to go to the thread above to find the ID. This is the very first fossil I have from this animal, and I am very pleased to add to the collection. I have always had a curious mind. No surprise that I have questions: 1) What is going on in that 1st photo? Is this some creature like the worm bore that carries a little chain saw, and slices off half of the p3, half of the p4, and leaves a demarcation line down the side of the m1? Exactly at the halfway point of all 3 teeth. Sometimes I feel paranoiac.. 2) More specifically, for those that have one of these in their collections, large, medium, small example? 3) Is there one specific animal in the Florida fossil record or a couple of options. So far I have seen at least one latin name and imagine there are others. Thanks for the good wishes , any and all comments. Jack .cc @jcbshark
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My better half has been away for the better part of two week, severely limiting my hunting trips. Today I managed to get away to a location on the Peace River where I have taken some TFF friends previously. It was cool 53 degrees driving there , but once the sun came out , it was OK -- as long as I had my 5 mm wetsuit. I was by myself because getting a dog_walker was a last minute offer. This location has a line -- clearly Miocene marine on one side and Pleistocene mammal on the other. I had found some medium sized Hemis, 5-6 Armadillo osteoderms, about half of a good sized dolphin tooth, some gator teeth, a couple of verts... no fantastic finds but a very soothing experience on a bright sunny , cool day. So, I am thinking last sieve, and this comes up.. for a second laying in the sieve , I thought it was whole.... but no. I did go back for a couple more sieves to try and find the rest of it, but no such luck. Carnassials are very distinctive. I think this is enough to not only identify the mammal, but also the exact tooth position. The length of the broken enamel is approx 13 mm. Enjoy !!! Jack
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Found this partial tooth a few years ago in some Holo-Pleistocene marine sediments on Oahu, Hawaii. There is also the chance that it is more recent, as there had been some dredging in the area, though I haven't seen any evidence at this location. Approximately half of this tooth is missing. What remains is half of the crown and one root lobe. It is 17 mm in maximum dimension. My guess is carnassial. Seal? Canid? Appreciate any and all input.
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Out yesterday, gorgeous day, good friends, mostly small shark teeth but a few keepers. That deer tine is one of my best at 2.75 inches, and the beaver molar, hard to find in this condition, is sweet!!!! But this tread is about a Carnassial or maybe it is a p4. Luckily, I hunt with a quarter inch screen. What animal family is this? It does not look like bigger canids I have. For that matter, it does not look like my felid carnassials. At first , I thought peccary molar, then tapir pre_molar, ....
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Hi- I've bought some time ago this mammal tooth (I've attached three pics) from a Chinese seller, who didn't know anything about it (only its Chinese origin)- I think it comes from a carnivorous species, but I'm not expert at all in that field- Maybe anyone can help me to ID the tooth with some more information- Thanks in advance, Fabio
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Not a lot of Time .. Out with my friend and and fossil enthusiast JLAR706 checking on a favored spot. Going out today also to a different location. Jlar started slow but caught up fast with some excellent Horse, Camel, Tigers and Makos. I has a similar set of Tigers, Horse, fewer Makos, but a couple that require ID, I think I know what these are, but size matters All in all, some great memories with a good friend in one of my favorite spots. Shellseeker
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Publication on Canis latrans in Maryland
Kentrcarlson posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Hi All. I found what I think is a canis latrans (coyote) carnassial tooth in the intertidal sand of a spot on the Chesapeake bay. I'm looking to co-author up with anyone who wants to help out with a short review of the tooth and prehistoric coyote distribution in the area. I'd post whatever is written in the forum and research gate. From what I understand, canis latrans has only been reported from one other place in Maryland (Cumberland bone cave). Kent
