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Found these in a central Florida spring, Seminole/Orange County area. Pretty sure they are coral, but haven’t been able to pinpoint the species.
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When I am hunting, I consider the candidates for a TFF post as I find them. Is it unique or outstanding? Do I know what it is or need an identification? In the 1st couple of hours, I found a very nice puffer mouth plate, and this lower hemi... so far nothing to justify a post. The hemi is very pristine, including an "edge" much like a Mako around the sides. Usually this feature is worn off over time. I found a broken tooth that I did not recognize, but know I know what it is... If any one has similar whale teeth with longitudinal rugosity on the cementum, please post a photo, About noon, I thought I had candidates for identification. My friend indicated that he just found a possible camel premolar, and soon after I found a smaller tooth, which I also thought might be camel. Turns out that they are not camel, but bovid... modern cow upper right premolars Late in the day, I found a 115 mm bone. It seems more likely marine than land. I hope someone recognizes...
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Dinosaur Book Recommendations And Fossiling Spots In Florida
FloridaLemonShark13 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
So guys I’ve been wondering about what y’all think are the best books for reference and for art books, paleo art is really cool to me and I’d love to add some. 2nd does anyone here have any ideas on where I should look for fossils, Central Fl Region? -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Liochlamys bulbosa (Heilprin, 1886) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: A classic Caloosahatchian species with only a few records within the FLMNH database for the Tamaimi. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Aurantilaria lindae (Petuch, 2004) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: A highly nodose and rare shell. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Triplofusus gignatea (Kiener, 1840) Stratigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: APAC, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extant Notes: Common name is the Horse Conch and it is the largest gastropod found within the United States. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Pliculofusus acuta (Emmons, 1858) Stratigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: APAC, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Most Plicofusus in the Pinecrest have been referred to as P. scalarina, however they appear closer to the Pliocene forms from the Carolinas. P. acuta has fewer, but more prominent ribs than P. scalarina as well as more angulated whorls. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Pliculofusus scalarina (Heilprin, 1886) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Primarily found in the Caloosahatchee Formation, but also within the Tamiami upper carbonate units. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Cinctura rhomboidea (Rogers & Rogers, 1839) Stratigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: MR 9474-1017 from SMR Phase 10 and MR 1356-92 from APAC, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Some authors have called the short spire form C. apicina, but in the Pinecrest Beds, both forms occur and can be identified by the unadorned apical whorls. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Cinctura apicina (Heilprin, 1886) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Cinctura hunteria, but with the first two apical whorls highly sculpted. Within the Tamiami, this species is usually found within the carbonate unit. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Fasciolaria okeechobensis Tucker & Wilson, 1932 Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Construction site, Collier County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Fasciolaria tulipa, but with the first two apical whorls highly sculpted. Some authors have listed this species as an index fossil of the Middle Pleistocene Bermont Formation, but I have found it at several Tamiami Golden Gate sites as well as the Caloosahatchee. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Fasciolaria monocingulata (Dall, 1890) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Caribbean Cinctura lillum, but with a prominent incised line under the suture. Mostly found in the Caloosahatchee Formation, but a few records exist in the Tamiami, mostly in the carbonate beds south of Sarasota. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Heilprinia caloosaensis (Heilprin, 1886) Stratigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: This shell is sometimes noted as Heilprinia carolinensis. Dall (1892) in his description of Fusus caloosaensis carolinensis, stated that further one collects north, the heavier and thicker this species became, but noted that intergrades existed. Both slender and thick forms are found in the Caloosahatchee Formation. In the FLMNH database, specimens in Florida are typically identified as H. caloosaensis while those in the Carolinas are listed as H. carolinensis. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Heilprinia florida (Olsson & Harbinson, 1953) Stratigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: More narrow than H. caloosaensis with a spire as high as the siphonal canal. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Pustulatirus miamiensis (Petuch, 1986) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: A rare species with only three records in the FLMNH database. -
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Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Hemipolygona stephensae (Lyons, 1991) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Lake excavation, Collier County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: More inflated than Polygona, this species preferred carbonate environments. -
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Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Polygona hypsipettus (Dall, 1890) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: A few records in the FLMNH database lists this species from the Tamiami although much more common in the Early Pleistocene Caloosahatchee Formation. -
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Order Neogastropoda Family Fasciolariidae Polygona jacunda (McGinty, 1940) Stratigraphy: Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: Bonita Grande, Lee County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: An Early Pleistocene species not reported from the Tamiami. -
Just got back from Venice/Caspersian Beach, Florida. Was sorting my loot for the day and among to Mako and Bull teeth, I found this. I’m having a hard time identifying it. It appears to be a tooth of some kind but I have never seen one like this, it does not appear to be a shark tooth. It’s size is a little smaller than a dime, so it’s pretty small. Definitely feels fossilized. The top is completely flat, and there appears to be a enamel line marking what was above/below the gum line. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide in identifying this cool little thing!
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I was out hunting recently. In addition to numerous small shark teeth, I found a nice posterior Meg, a horse astragulas, and a rostral tooth different from those I had found previously. With friends in the sunshine, it was more than enough. Usually I find Rostral teeth that look like this one from @MarcoSr, although not as perfect... This one looks different.... damage, trick of the lighting.... Thanks for any/all comments. jack
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Hi Found on manasota key Florida. It’s fossilized, small and thin but hollow. Any idea what it may be?
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Florida Paleontological Society (FPS) Fall 2021 Field Trip
Shellseeker posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
This has been a very busy week for me and my fossil addiction. I was out to the Peace River on Tuesday, attended the Lee County , Florida Fossil Club meeting Thursday, went to the Friday night dinner preceding the FPS meeting and was fortunate to be part of those FPS members who went on a field trip to a Pliocene-Pleistocene Shell Pit in Charlotte County, Florida. I know at least 4 other FPS and TFF members who also participated in this Outstanding Field trip. 1) I have volunteered to write_up this field trip for the next FPS Newsletter. I will do that and when complete, will post a copy to this thread. 2) I will also, as time permits, post photos of my many finds.. They need to be cleaned first. @calhounensis is a FPS member and participated in the Shell Pit hunt. He was extremely generous in giving me a number of horse teeth he found, suggesting that I would enjoy them more because I seem addicted to fossil horse teeth. 3) I will attempt identification of all these horse teeth and post my success or lack thereof. Right now the Horse teeth are soaking in water. In addition to these horse teeth (Equus and pre_equus) I heard that a Mako, and some Great Whites, some echinoids and Sand Dollars were found but the dominant % of finds are seashells and corals.... they were all over the ground. I invite any and all TFF members in attendance to post comments on the trip, photos of a few or many of their finds, or not. I have had a great week, just in the company of my numerous fossil addicted friends... but I am weary, and will get some sleep before my next post to this thread. Jack
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Well, I know I said my last post on these tiny fossils would be my last, but I was wrong. Everyone was very helpful with the previous questions (as usual) so I'm back with a couple more tiny teeth out of the Gainesville Creek matrix that is generally Miocene aged Hawthorn Fm. All of these are pretty small, most just a few mm's across. You can see previous posts here for other info or ID's: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/119097-gainesville-shark-teeth-question/&tab=comments#comment-1305867 http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/114209-north-florida-fun/&tab=comments#comment-1264293 http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/119245-florida-mysteries/&tab=comments#comment-1309402 The first one is what I have tentatively called a Raja type tooth. But I know these are rare out of this material and it looks a bit different than other teeth labelled as this, so I am uncertain. Sorry for the big globs of sticky stuff in two of the pictures, I still have not mastered some of the fine points of pulling individual features out of pictures to clean them up - a work in progress. The next one are some ray dermal scutes. OK, I feel pretty good about the top two, but not the bottom two. In fact the lower right is almost certainly something else, I just don't know what. Any thoughts? Next up are some drum fish type teeth. I have separated what I picked from the matrix into three general types, two of which I feel good about the ID's. The first are what are generally called Pogonias, a genus of Drum fish. In this matrix, they are generally small, black in color, variably shaped and with a root that is rather plain (two on right side of picture). They are set as one layer of teeth in a bony plate. The second group of teeth are often blue in color, tend to be oblong, often have a figure-8 shape to the root and I found numerous multi-tooth associations where there are many teeth stacked on top of each other. I found several posts on the the forum and on the web that identified these as wrasse teeth, probably of the genus Labrodon. It is the third set of teeth that I am unsure of, they look similar to Pogonias, but generally are not as black and smooth and have a different root. it is a bit tapered and is striated. Any idea on what these are from? Lastly are several types of what I have thrown into my "unknown fish teeth" bucket. Maybe that is how they will remain and that is fine, maybe some are not even fish teeth. If anyone recognizes any of them, that would be great! The first two look similar to barracuda teeth, of which I found many, but differ in shape a bit. The first ones are thicker and not as symmetrical as my barracuda teeth and the second ones have a distinctive "S"-shape to them. The next ones: I just don't know. Ok, that's all for now. Thanks for any help you can offer. Mike
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A Fossil A Day....keeps the blues away! Or something like that... I started an Instragram account (jamielynnfossilquest) and am posting a fossil a day, so I figured I should do that on here, to REAL fossil enthusiasts! I'm a few days behind, so I will start out with a few more than one a day but then it will settle down to One Fossil (but I will admit, I'll probably miss a few days, but I'll double up or whatever.) I'll start with Texas Pennsylvanian era, but will branch out to other locations and time periods, so expect a little of everything! So enjoy A Fossil A Day! Texas Pennsylvanian Fossils: Nautiloid Agathiceras ciscoense Brachiopod Neochonetes acanthophorus Trilobite Ditomopyge sp. Gastropod Straparollus sp. Bivalve Astartella vera Cephalopod Brachycycloceras sp, Brachiopod Cleiothyridina orbicularis
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Hi Found on the beach in Venice Florida. Rounded fossil, smooth outer surface. Looks enamel. To me, it looks like a piece of a mastodon molar fragment. What do the experts say?
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