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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, Florida Bite damage with marks visible ....© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles megalodon Venice Beach, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles auriculatus Suwannee River, FL (Crazy cusps)© Matthew Brett Rutland
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The weather has FINALLY cooled down here in Florida, and it is comfortable to dig like maniacs in the shallow fossil-bearing creeks. The mosquitoes, thunderstorms, and risk of heat stroke has finally subsided, so we went out to take advantage of the beautiful Florida winter and find some shark teeth! So @Cris and myself headed out to a trusty old site that we have not visited in a long time. Luckily, some recent rains have moved things around and we were able to find some untouched places. I ended up finding one of the nicest Megalodon shark teeth I have ever found in my life! Along with some other amazing juvenile Megalodon teeth, Mako's, and even a piece of Mastodon tooth! What an absolutely insane day. I still can't stop looking at the tooth!
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles megalodon Bone Valley, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Carcharocles megalodon Golden Beach, Florida© Matthew Brett Rutland
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Hello! I live in Ocala. Whenever my community starts constructing a new neighborhood, I go and search through the piles of limestone that they bring in to make the roadbed. It usually is different than the “local” softer chalkier limestone that is prevalent right here. This batch has a lot of beautiful brown and blue chert, the usual Florida fossils , some coated in druzy crystals (?) . There have been a few that I found last weekend that I cannot definitely identify. I appreciate any help, and any info on what area this limestone might be from. There are 3 photos here plus 2 more in the first reply. Thanks! Margaret
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First trip to the Peace River in Arcadia, FL today. Got a couple that I'm not sure about..
CousinLarry posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found a bunch of Shark teeth today and other interesting bits. If possible, can anyone ID this spike? Catfish spike? Is the hole natural? And found a tiny vertabrae, can anyone tell what animal that may have been from? And I found what to me looks like an alligator tooth, but wrapped in a concretion or something? Or is that just a rock? Thanks for any help!
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I have been hunting a SW Florida area that is predominantly marine fossils. whale verts, earbones, teeth, dolphin earbones, small shark teeth (Lemon, Tiger, Bull, Hemipristis), ray teeth , broken barbs, occassional GW, Mako, Megs. No significant land mammal material. Actually , out of commission right now, but I'll get back to it soon. Found a lot of these. This is my largest at 3/4 inch. Could be a tilly bone , but these are consistently the same, not finding any other types and little variation in the ones I have found. Think of Eagle Ray teeth as comparative sameness. Maybe some other fossil hunter has stumbled across these. Fish skull?
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Realizing that 2018 is nearing it’s end and I haven’t posted any trip reports for several months I wanted to piece together some of my notable finds this past season. I was able to get out with quite a few members on more than a few trips and while most were locals to SW Florida I did get the chance to take out a couple members who came here on vacation as well. Hope you all enjoy the show it’s gonna take a little while to get all these pics posted so please be patient
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Hoping someone easily recognizes these and its an easy answer...my initial searches have been fruitless... So I was supposed to be looking for more Florida coprolites in the garage piles of fossils and got sidetracked looking as this large Turbinella columella and just noticed these tan circular markings on it and wanted to know if they were traces of serpulids? Probably Pliocene Tamiami formation, Sarasota County, Florida. Whats fascinating to me is their spiral?/concentric, ornamented/segmented? shape which appears to actually be etched into the gastropod shell itself. Almost look like cross sections of forams. I've scraped a number of the small white serpulid tubes off thinking I'd see a similar pattern but there is no marking beneath them--its perfectly smooth. If it is a tube, I wasnt aware that they could actually score the surface of the gastropod shell--seems pretty neat if thats what going on but maybe its something entirely different. The gastropod, aside from being badly damaged has sponge borings, barnacle and coral encrustration, and serpulid tubes. Most of the circular traces are around 1mm in diameter and a few push the 2 or 3mm size. Thanks for the help! Regards, Chris
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Found this on a land site in west Hardee county. What do you think it is. It kinda of looks claw coreish to me but not sure.
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Hi, All. I found this today on the beach on Amelia Island in Florida. It looks like a tooth, though I am unsure. Any ideas? Thank you!
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Hey everyone, I'd like to know what you think about this vertebra I found on the peace river last February. I know people find snake verts once in a while on the river and was wondering if this specimen had any traits that would determine its identity whether it be more general or specific. I know that not everyone knows the size reference when using American currency, the vert is 1.5 cm from the top of the process to the bottom and about .8 cm long at its longest point.
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I need help identifying a bone. It was found in seminole, florida. It is 12" wide, 8" deep and 14" tall.
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I was browsing the Forum and came across an excellent (Jan 25, 2018) post by @GeschWhat listing some characteristics of coprolites. Unhappily, Lori did not provide illustrations. I want to quote her list later. I have here a few coprolites from different rivers, including the Peace River. I'll post some images, and let you judge how well these specimens fit Lori's list of characteristics. This one (two images) is from the Peace River: This one (two images) is from the Suwannee River, a bear-dog site: This one (two images) is from the Peace River: This one (two images) is from the Peace River: Report post I don't subscribe to the 'lick test,' and Lori has heard all of the scatological jokes by now, so let's get down to serious 'business.' Feel free to provide further illustration or commentary on the identification of coprolites.
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As the title says, I went to a local fossil club meeting last night. I always purchase tickets for the fossil lottery and selected these when my tickets were called early. Looking for an ID.... @MikeR What is the "frosting"..... Also kudos for a good presentation on Cretaceous Inland sea.. I learned from Joshua about identifying the shifting shoreline boundaries of the WIS by testing/core samples of current rocks, using the types of rock and imbedded fossils to identify the shoreline. There are always questions on TFF about finding fossils... Turns out Joshua has a really accurate map.
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A friend showed me these today, bith found in the Peace River in the last week. He asked if I thought either was a canine? I decided to ask TFF for identifications. Fossil #1 Fossil #2 Thanks for all comments, suggestions, identifications.
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Found this odd vert today in a gainesville creek. Referenced my books, looked online, and can’t find anything that looks like this! Any help would be great! Thanks
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So I ran across 2 more gastropods from Sarasota Florida APAC that have been hiding in the garage--well maybe not hiding--just buried in the junk. Doesnt seem to be something common unless I have some tiny ones somewhere. Probably Tamiami Fm. Plio-Pleistocene. Thought they were the same initially and I had lumped them together. But now I see the one on the right has a depressed end. So maybe a Prunum sp. and a Bullata sp? that would be cool. Thanks for the looks and any feedback. Regards, Chris
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Did some blackwater diving in the St. Marys river this past weekend. The biggest Meg tooth was a hair under 6” and also found a nice little benedini!
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It's been a few months since we've gone to the creeks in Gainesville. Thanks to Pat C. who asked if we would like to join him, we went out yesterday to a new spot. With low humidity, perfect temperature and cool water , we worked our way to Pat's secret spot. After a short hike, we ended up in an area of the creek that had plenty of gravel to work through. After a few hours of sifting, everyone was happy with their finds. Hemi's seemed to be the tooth of the day, with plenty to be found. Mrs. beachbum had the best finds of the day with a pair of mako teeth in back to back screens, with the largest being 2 1/4". Along with the hemi's and mako's we found lemon, tiger and bull shark teeth along with ray barbs , verts (any ideas on the large vert?) and a couple of partial croc teeth. All in all it was a fun day hunting .
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New fossil enthusiast from the Saint Augustine / Ponte Vedra beach area. started collecting shark teeth along the beaches here and now getting more serious expanding into creeks and such around the state. This forum has been an awesome learning tool the past few months and I've just been lurking.......until now. Cheers!
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Hey Gang, Going thru another garage box of old stuff and was wondering if you all can tell me if these 3 are all different Mitra species. Slight variability in the exterior ornamentation and spire heights and overall shell shape seem different. Maybe Mitra lineolata for the taller spired version on the very right? Spoil finds from APAC Sarasota Florida..Probably Tamiami Fm. Plio-Pleistocene. @MikeR Thanks for any help. Regards, Chris
