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Hello! I have a question, I have become very interested in the Lower Pleistocene site of Leisey Shell Pit in Florida. I have read that a few species of sharks, bony fish and even rays are present there. Does anyone in the forum actually have any of these in their collections? If so be sure to post them as I have never seen any! Cheers. Adriano.
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Hey everyone! Found this astragalus this past weekend. Not sure if it’s deer or peccary, or if it’s too worn to tell for sure. Measures 38mmx19mm @Harry Pristis @Shellseeker
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Found land site. Wondering if it's possible to tell the species of whale? Thanks!
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Hunting yesterday, found an area of slightly larger teeth....It is not often that one location can yield Hemipristis, Mako, Megalodon and Great White. In the Peace River, GWs are really difficult to find and I am not positive about this one. Is this a GW or a Meg...? It sort of depends on whether you see a bourlette (or not) and how you see the symmetry of the serrations. There were a variety of Tiger (Aduncus, Contortous, Mayumbensis, and Cuvier), but no sand tigers.. Lots of Hemipristis and larger Lemons Also a camel_llama tooth...some Armadillo scutes, and two almost identical Capybara front teeth.... Digging next to me, my friend found this bone, and tossed it on the bank. I retrieved it thinking I might be able to get it identified.. The broken half bone is 2 x 2 x 3 and a possible carpal/tarpal, astragulas, calcaneum, etc of a megafauna like Rhino, Sloth, Bison, Proboscidien. A limited set of non_long bones. I think Daniel @Meganeuratracked down a Rhino Astragalus this way, and I also have the possibility that a TFF member may just recognize this 1st photo...
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Found this today - recognized it as an astragalus pretty quickly but couldn’t pinpoint what. I’ve narrowed it down to either Probiscidean or Sloth. It’s 3.2 inches/82mm in length. @Harry Pristis @Shellseeker either of you able to discern?
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So doing a culmination of my last couple trips out - and the fossil gods were benevolent these past trips! Found my first and second bison teeth, a rhino astragalus, a decently sized, very pretty Meg, and a bunch of other things! So without further ado: Starting off with the shark’s teeth - 2.3” Meg, tiny little posterior Meg, and a pathological Carcharhinus tooth: The bison teeth - both 4th premolars, but one is an upper (left), and one is a lower (right): The rhino astragalus: 2 Horse teeth, tapir tooth crown, rodent incisor, fish jaw, and an orange burr fish mouthplate: Gator teeth, an orange Croc tooth, 2 gator osteoderms, and 2 gator verts (Tail, I think?): 1 Holmesina osteoderm, 1 Juvenile glyptodon, 2 broken glyptodon, 1 Dasypus Bellus flex osteoderm, and 1 Dasypus novemectus flex osteoderm: Big chunk of mammoth tooth: And the rest of my finds minus the shark teeth - including a hawk claw core, an unknown claw core, a toe bone, cetacean ear bones, mammoth frags, and some other stuff: Overall I had some awesome finds, and I know there’s gonna be plenty more where that came from!
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Identified by Richard Hulbert as a Glyptodon Astragalus. One of two, to his knowledge, that were found as of the time of collection of this specimen. Notable features include a shape comparable to the astragalus of the Giant Armadillo - Holmesina, with overall larger features to account for the greater size in G. floridanum. Reference: Simpson, George Gaylord. (1929). Pleistocene mammalian fauna of the Seminole Field, Pinellas County, Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56: 561-599.
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Today I went to a nearby creek in north Florida and came across these fossils that I need help identifying. 1. Definitely posterior. Maybe bull, lemon, or hammerhead? 2. I don't know if I've seen this before, at first I thought small hastalis, but then I noticed what appears to be a cusp on the left side. (it's just on the tape measure so you can see the cusp better.)3. Turtle, but I was wondering with the odd shape if it was possible to tell where from.Thanks!
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Okay so @fossillarry you’re either going to love me or hate me after this, so I apologize in advance - a friend of mine gave me a bunch of 3-toed horse teeth he’s found hunting in the Gainesville area. 13 of em, in fact. I got measurements and the best pics I can of the chewing surfaces, let me know if I need more pics. Measurements are Width of chewing surface x Height of chewing surface. All in mm. 1) 23.5x17.8 2) 17x16.8 3) 15.7x12.8 4) 13.1x11.3 5) 25.3x19.1 6) 25x16 7) 18.7x14.1 8) 16.2x9.6 9) 19.8x10.1 10) 21.6x13.1 11) 16.8x7.2 12) 14.5x9.2 13) 14x6.4 @fossillarry Thank you so much in advance! @Shellseeker a few of these might be recognizable to you, hopefully?
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Hello everyone, I have gotten really into meg diving this last year to the point where I am driving down to Venice from Orlando twice a month to dive for teeth. I have started to look into getting black water diving and I am not really sure where to start. Does anyone have any rivers that are good for black water diving? I have heard talk that people do it in the Peace river and the St. Marys and I didn't know if that is where most people go or if there are other rivers people dive that hold a good amount of teeth. I don't want to sound like the guy who is asking for your super secret spots but I'm just trying to find out where I should start to get into this. If anyone does black water diving and ever needs someone to go with I would be very interested in going with you and I would certainly throw in for gas money. I also have my own boat so we cold take it out also if that is an issue you have. Thank you for any information you can give me, Parker
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Hi, I'm new to the forum and hoping some of your expertise can help me identify my current find. I was hunting in the Venice Beach area on Florida gulf coast.
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Hi all, I found this possible osteoderm on Venice Beach last month. What do you guys think?
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Found this fossil sticking out of the sand. In pinellas. Also found what I think is a mosasaur tooth. Been walking here twice a week and I have found some other mammal teeth, smaller megs, and other various fossils that look like pieces of bigger bones. I enjoy fossils but I am no where near an expert. Just an excited amateur. Thanks!
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Hi there! Recently looking at some fossils I found land hunting in South Venice and this one had me stumped. Granted I'm no expert, I tried to ID it from the web and couldn't come up with anything. It does have one ridge area like some other mammal teeth. Just an odd fossil to me. Thanks!
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Hello all, On a bone valley fossil hunting trip, I turned up a fossil I was a bit unsure about. My best guess was a sawfish rostral tooth. Let me know your thoughts and some bonus pics at the end! Here is what I believe to be a porpoise tooth (the other side is a bit busted up) And here is a riker frame of some of my better bone valley shark teeth I found. Thanks for looking!
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Came across this paper (actually a chapter from a larger work) that was published back in 2017. Was doing an internet search and my keywords proffered this as a search result. This paper covers a bit about the early geology of the landmass that became the state of Florida but contains a more in depth look at the climate and geology over the last 50 Ma. It is not a very long read and contains some interesting graphics. I'd recommend this as fundamental reading for any Florida resident interesting in geology and fossil hunting. A really nice concise background into the geology of our state that due to its location and elevation has been very susceptible to ocean level changes throughout its history. https://floridaclimateinstitute.org/docs/climatebook/Ch15-Hine.pdf Cheers. -Ken
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Out with my most frequent hunting partner. With the cold weather turning warmer, and the river dropping, we have been prospecting sites that proved productive in previous seasons. It does not always pay off.. sometimes the locations have been covered by feet of sand or the gravel we were digging in last year has been carried downstream to parts unknown. Today was sunny and warm, we checked one location for 90 minutes followed by another and both were good (lots of small shark teeth) but not great.. We moved to a third location that we had hunted extensively in previous years and once again it has some real potential for finds that are new and rare.... This was my first hint.... I have found 1 equivalent and 1 better in 15 years.. They tend to be fragile in the churn of the Peace River... This was next, once again rare for the instance. I believe it is an Osteoderm, but what mammal and where on the body is it positioned? Then this Cetacean ear bone, I need some time to try and ID but more likely , I need @Boesse to validate any ID I make.. Then , while I was thinking about Cetaceans... This showed up in my sieve... There were many Hemis, Aduncus/Contortous, half a shark vert, many in good shape. I will sort them tomorrow. My partner found a fish tooth, very small Armadillo edge vert, and at the end of the day contributed this rarity... I am jealous. At 3 inches, I think it may be from a big toothed whale.... One of those great days on the Peace River... I am indeed fortunate...
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Hi everyone, any recommendations for the best Bone Valley fossil digs? My goal like many others is to find Meg teeth. Ive done a couple tours on the Peace River with a guide (who will remain nameless, fairly locally famous one) and have come up empty. Ive done a lot of searching up and down the Manasota Key and Casperen area, no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Shawn
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In North Florida, we looked for Blue Agatized Coral and found some in a stream. At home we cut and polished them. We put together a video showing the whole process: https://youtu.be/aae9XqJPMCU best wishes, Lloyd
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These are a few of the nicest/most interesting teeth I've found, and I was wondering if anyone knows about the two on the bottom left. I think the one with the red and orange tip is some sort of mako tooth or a similar species, and from what I could find the one beside it with the round profile could be one of the earliest ancestors of white sharks. The top three I believe are all from megalodons, as well as the really short yellow tooth on the bottom. I think that one is a tooth that was growing inside the jaw or something due to its small size compared to the size of the root. The smaller tooth on the right is one I am unsure of too, looks like a giant snaggletooth but I think it's something else that I don't know about. Also pictured is the nicest tiger shark tooth I've found so far, but the camera has a hard time getting the red and purple in the base of the tooth.
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I like new experiences , so went to a dry land fossil dig site in Hardee County, Florida.... Not many finds, but quality over quantity... My back hurts from Shoveling gravel, mud, sand, clay for 6 hours and to think, I pay to do it. It is 32 mm in length.. Distinctive, certainly found by many TFF members on the East coast, including @Harry Pristis in the Peace River and @SailingAlongToo in Virginia. So, labeled as Unid. River Dolphin, for the time being....
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So finally getting around to posting my finds from my last trip 2 weeks ago. All of this comes from a 12 foot by 8 foot section of gravel, which is… pretty mind blowing to me. To start off the finds… Tortoise! I grabbed 1 chunk of shell - there were multiple others that were equally as big and I just didn’t have the room for all of them. Found 30 tortoise spurs and 2 claws as well: (Also included with the claws are an earbone and a deer distal phalanx/claw core) Next up… 9 Glyptodon osteoderms, including 1 spike osteoderm and 2 juvenile osteoderms: Other armadillo stuff - 1 Holmesina sp. osteoderm, 1 P. Leiseyi, and 6 D. Bellus: 32 Gar fish scales: A gorgeous and large snake vert, as well as the Puma concolor thoracic vert that I had posted for ID: 4 Equus horse teeth: 2 Deer teeth, a Peccary tooth, a rodent jaw, a Cormohipparion ingenuum upper premolar, a raccoon canine, and a racoon jaw with 2 teeth: And finally, a gorgeous Meg, 2 tapir teeth, a tapir incisor, a wrasse mouth plate, and an unerupted piece of mammoth molar: Overall a pretty awesome haul!
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I came across another odontocete tooth while rummaging through storage. I don't find this tooth in Hulberts book. Does anyone know what dolphin this tooth came from? It has a triangular, leaf-like root, though one corner is missing in this specimen.
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