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Yesterday, I returned to a hunting location that I had not been in a couple years. It is difficult to get to... lack of paved road and miles of kayaking, I always have great anticipation, and I did find lots of fossils, lot of bones, some teeth, but curiously few that I did not recognize. Might be E. eomigrans based on other fauna found here... Found a number of Horse teeth, uppers and lowers, too large for tridactyl and then this slightly damaged one... I think it is N. eurystyle, but curious on what others think. Then a Giant Tortoise leg spur or....maybe a claw core... I have this from @Harry Pristis and then a number of turtle claw cores...including one from @PrehistoricFlorida So I'll ask Harry to comment on differences between Tortoise leg Osteoderms versus Tortoise claw cores versus Turtle claw cores... Finally , I will conclude with a rather mundane , small broken fish tail... Is this really in the Billfish or Tuna family as advertised on the net. This tail is 44 mm in length and about the same size as the few others I have found. I guess there were Bonita back in the Pliocene also
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I know of a Blancan site where Blancan fauna represent more than 80 % of the finds. The rest of the finds seem to be early Equus. You never know what you might find. I went there recently with a good friend after the deep water levels had subsided. Some of these fossils he found and some are my finds. To be successful in identifying fossils, it is important to understand the scientific age of the fossil you find in the same location. There are no Megs at this site and layer, not even fragments. The consensus seems to be that Megs went extinct 3-4 MYAs. There is some mixture, but unlike the Peace River, it is almost insignificant.. The Blancan is divided into two subintervals: the Bl1 from 4.75 to 2.6 million years ago; and the Bl2 from 2.6 to 1.6 million years ago. The Bl1 does include the earliest known occurrences in Florida of Carcharodon carcharias and the last known occurrences of the sharks Carcharocles megalodon, Carcharodon hastalis, and Hemiprisitis serra, the baleen whale Balaenoptera cortesii (= Balaenoptera floridana), the walrus Ontocetus emmonsi, and the dugong Corystosiren varguezi. Why significant ? Well that is an antler tip up there and it almost certainly belonged to a an Artiodactyl, but which one? Might it be from Capromeryx as opposed to a white tail deer? Odocoilius virginianus. Index species for the Bl2 in Florida: Chelydra floridana, Phalacrocorax filyawi, Titanis walleri, Megalonyx leptostomus, Paramylodon garbanii, Sigmodon minor, Sigmodon medius, Sigmodon curtisi, Ondatra idahoensis, Castor californicus, Peromyscus hagermanensis, Erethizon poyeri, Erethizon kleini, Borophagus diversidens, Canis lepophagus, Trigonictis macrodon, Chasmaporthetes ossifragus, Platygonus bicalcaratus, Hemiauchenia blancoensis, Hemiauchenia gracilis, Capromeryx arizonensis, Nannippus peninsulatus, Tapirus lundeliusi, and Rhynchotherium praecursor . I am not trying to ID the antler, but I do have one fossil I am interested in a verification and 2 fossils for my hunting friend. Mine I believe to be Neohipparion eurystyle and would like to have confirmation. The 2nd is a small canine. I have great difficulty differentiating raccoon from possum from from skunk in the Pleistocene. He thought this was dolphin, I think it is land mammal. It is 27.5 mm in length and has a ridge in the enamel just above the root. Thoughts on Land versus marine mammal ? Finally, I have never seen a fossil like this one. and I have little hope of identifying.... I think it is marine and the reason you have all this background. I am trying to depend on those TFF members from up north... @MarcoSr @Al Dente@siteseer@Northern Sharks @sixgill pete That bottom photo makes it look like a Vertebra... could it be the crest of a fish ? 30 mm in length. Please help. I am out of my league. Jack
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Hi TFF! I picked up a horse tooth recently that I believe is a Neohipparion eurystyle. It is 21mm x 20mm x 34mm and found somewhere in south Florida. Can anyone confirm for me? Thanks! @Shellseeker @Harry Pristis
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