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It's been a challenging season on the Peace River for various reasons. Was sidelined for most of Feb and March with some minor health issues and forbidden by my doctor (and wife) from going in the water until all was healed. Add to that what appears to be a tremendous amount of sand built up in some of my favorite hunting spots by last seasons heavy rains. Then throw in a lot of debris restricting portions of the river to narrow passages. All together it has hindered my luck with any major finds. Can only hope for some of the success our friend Jack - @Shellseeker has been having lately! That said- I still feel blessed to be able to hunt on the river pretty much whenever I choose. I am attaching some photos of the river here that show the downed trees, sandbars and debris that need to be negotiated to travel to one of my old dig sites and a few shots of some of this seasons finds so far. Last season I posted more trip reports and wanted to at least try to catch up with one for those who are interested in seeing photos of the river and some recent fossil discoveries. This initial shot shows the open river with what looks like a dead end ahead I knew the river took a bend to the right ahead so I kept on with the hope of finding my way through. The following shots are of the debris encountered and a sandbar that needed to be skirted to keep going - I was able to squeeze by to the right here and follow the curve of the river. on the next turn I came upon a sandbar stretching almost all the way across Got by this one and then was faced with a few trees that were not present last season This one looked impassable but as I got closer I saw a way through It first required a weave left, then back to the right and eventually threading through several underwater obstructions A few challenges to keep things interesting! Thankfully, the flow was slow and I didn't have to fight a current pushing me into any of the debris. With that paddling report I will finish with some recent finds that make it all worth it. My first mammoth tooth of the season was what I think is a "spit tooth"- Picked up right off the bottom just to the left of where @Bone Daddy is standing in the picture of him in his latest posting, I missed the horse tooth, lol. My second mammoth find of the season was another one I spotted in less than a foot of water and was able to just bend down and pick it off the bottom - This one was found much farther south, below Payne Creek State Park. One of my favorites so far is this whale tooth - one of only three I have found in the last three years- A few more miscellaneous finds that included a dolphin tooth, gator teeth, dugong tooth crown, horse incisor, half a tapir tooth crown and a broken llama tooth fragment. These finds keep me coming back for more. I'll be back out there next week and hope to finish off the season with some more interesting finds! Good Hunting to all!
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From the album: Invertebrates and plants(& misc.)
Both of a single anomalocaris' appendages. Possible anomalocaris goo? A speculation I think would be very cool, that the splotchy splatters around appendages could, however likely or unlikely, be anomalocaris "filling" or fragments, since it appears the whole animal was present at the beginning, and maybe included in fossilization, immediately below the edge of this piece, since the 2 appendages are in articulated position.-
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This tooth can be cleaned off more than this, cant it? It looks like there's plenty that is layered on top of the actual tooth that should be able to be removed, but I know it's not always as easy as that. And of course, not just if it CAN be removed, but removed safely? More to the point-safely by an amature?
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From the album: Invertebrates and plants(& misc.)
Debris, including micro glass "beads" from melted earth ejected into the air, from the KT boundary burn layer. Garfield county, Montana, Hell Creek formation. Late cretaceous (duh) *i added "misc." to this album because this didn't fit anywhere, and I thought it was really cool and should definitely be included somewhere. **There could even be vaporized dinosaur material as part of the glass and melted debris included. There definitely was plenty of it, but I guess realistically, unless it became evenly spread into the atmosphere and airborne debris, this is too small an amount of ejecta, and by percentage such a minuscule amount of vaporized dino, so sadly there probably isn't any.