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  1. Shellseeker

    Bone Valley Creek

    Out hunting yesterday. Sun Shining, pretty warm and I could find deep water... A lot of small colorful shark teeth and other marine fossils but I was missing most fossils from land based fauna until the very end of the hunt. So, Hemi, Tiger, Lemon, Bull, Dusky, most with light roots and blue or cream colored blades. Add in sea urchin spines, Stingray teeth and Barb frags, Sawfish rostral frags. The 3 Megs... One early. I like the color , and the almost perfectly consistent serrations.. Even broken at 39 mm , a nice find Another Meg 44 mm late. Complete, good serrations, a little feeding damage on the tip. I took the photo on my screened porch.. Not an unpleasant effect. Also little cusp, An Atavism... This from @siteseer in an old thread. .... Having lateral cusplets remained in the genes of the species millions of years after it was basic tooth character. Occasionally, the gene for cusplets, which had been "switched off" would switch on randomly and an individual would have teeth with cusplets. You wouldn't call it a pathology but just a rare expression of an ancestral trait. A very good 36 mm Bulla, that I'll try to identify.. I found a Bulla identified as Beluga whale at this location last year. Two fossil fragments showed up in the last sieve.. The 1st one at 27 mm, I think is a mammal ear bone because I have found similar at other sites. I am a little mystified by Nerve/Blood vessel canal on the bottom photo. and then this 34 mm enamel fragment of a mammal tooth... Similar to Mastodon or Gomphothere, but the best match might be Rhino. I have never found any Rhino fossil here and it would imply late Miocene (8-10 mya). That would be exciting. Enjoy...
  2. Shellseeker

    Back to hunting

    When I am about to make a post about finds, I am always conflicted on choosing "Hunting Trips", where I share lots of known fossils or "Fossil ID"... where I really want identification assistance. Usually works out If I put them together. It feels like I have been struggling to get out. With the Holidays , I managed to get out 4 times in December , 5 times in January , and yesterday was my 1st day in February. I used to be able to get out 10 times a month... those are my really happy days... I went yesterday and will go to the Peace river tomorrow.. YES !!! Started slow, but yesterday was a very successful hunt... Here are the ones I think I know. The Highlight of the day are 3 fossils from Hemiauchenia macrocephala. Two carpals in the same sieve and in fantastic shape. This was a favorite location and thus I had hunted frequently. Usually that depletes an area. In my 1st 8 sieves, I had found small shark, ray teeth plus lots of turtle and many broken bones. In the 9th sieve , BOTH of these carpals showed up and I put away any thoughts of moving on. Very rare, This is my 2nd or 3rd of these. A camel_llama lower premolar in great shape, with a little damage on the chewing surface. In the screen with the Llama tooth, a good sized Hemipistis upper tooth In previous threads, I have been discussing half fossilized vines, I found 2 fully fossilized Liana vines. Learn about liana vines, thick, woody vines that grow in the rainforest and compete with other plant forms for light and space. I found a number of Horse teeth, but I really worked on photos and trying to Identify this fragment of a tooth I thought might be cat... it is not. Staring at the broken enamel, I realized that I had Hunter _ Schreger bands... and cats do not have HSBs Found a nice Equus Lower tooth. Horses have one sets of teeth that they chew down over a lifetime. The length would say this was a young adult at death. Not everything is perfect and I do love Tridactyl horse teeth.. Almost there, chipped a little on the right side. Now for a few unknowns...Alligator ??? I did not realize that these "holes" existed any where else than as part of an Alligator osteoderm and thought that's the strangest osteoderm I have ever seen.. Additional pictures... Jaw ?? Please confirm what part of the Alligator this bone comes from.... Here is another find that kept me from filling the sieve... My first thought was Bone, but it was fossilized and heavy like rock, so I started rolling it in my hand to form an opinion. Saw some shiny stuff on 2nd view This 3rd view stopped me. Straight lines in Bones are unusual... It usually implies petrified wood ( go see the vine above) Let me look at the 2nd view more closely.. It looks like layers... maybe tusk... Enhance that a little, layers that get into compacted layers, and I can almost see the Schreger bands going horizontally and then crossing with bands going upwards at a 45 degree angle. Can this be ivory??? You can see the delusions that may happen when my focus should be to fill the sieve and find more fossils... I did find more, but you have seen the good ones.... Enjoy...
  3. shark57

    Large Hemipristis serra Shark Tooth

    From the album: Fossils

    This is my largest Hemipristis tooth. At 2.001 inches it just barely gets me into the 2 inch snaggletooth club! I found it in Yorktown Formation sediments in the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina.
  4. Got a surprise day off work on Tuesday so I decided to hit the cliffs to make the most of the day off. I got to the ramp around 10am to launch my kayak and headed to a beach I hadn’t been to in a little while. The trip started slow but I found a couple nice Hemipristis teeth to start getting my hopes up. I want finding to much in the wash and the water was to murky to find anything deep so I spent some time looking through debris around some fresh falls. Lo and behold a beautiful 1.75” Thecachampsa tooth is sitting right on top of one of the falls. It dried with some strange white staining that I wasn’t able to clean off, but none the less it’s still a great tooth. Continuing on I find a heartbreaking 2.3” megalodon that was broken almost in half (at least I got the larger half). Finishing up I got a few more nice Hemis and a handful of other nice smaller teeth. All in all in was a good day along the cliffs and it sure beat working. Thanks for reading, see y’all next time.
  5. Me and my girlfriend got the kayaks back out to adventure along the Calvert Cliffs on Saturday; the weather was unseasonably nice, getting up into the low 60s. The nice weather melted last weeks snow so I was hoping the thawing would bring out some nice finds. We launched a little before sunrise and had a beautiful calm kayak journey to the cliffs. As expected with the nice weather, a good number of other hunters started arriving by foot, kayak, and boat. A fellow kayaked snapped an amazing picture from the water of me at the base of the cliff and was kind enough to share it with me. With other hunters arriving I told my girlfriend to start working quickly down the beach, and I’d work slowly and methodically behind everyone else. I took my time, talking to everyone as they passed, giving my girlfriend more time up the beach. I wasn’t finding much walking behind everyone, but I was hopeful I’d find something nice tucked away that people missed. My hopes were realized when I spot a gorgeous 1.56” megalodon sitting in about a foot of water! 5 people must have walked passed it! As I caught up to my girlfriend a lot of the other hunters had turned back so we had some fresh beach ahead of us. She had found a nice 1.48” megalodon, a couple nice hemis and a pretty little retroflexus! Looks like the plan had paid off. We continued to the end of this stretch of beach finding a couple more nice hemis and I got a nice lower hastalis. With the beach being heavily searched the walk back wasn’t very fruitful but my girlfriend did manage to snag a nice mostly complete shark vertebra. It was a crowded day on the beach but it was nice talking to everyone, hearing about past finds and other fossil stories, but most of all it’s just nice to spend a beautiful day outside with family and friends! Till next time y’all, thanks for reading.
  6. Shellseeker

    Peace River Bryozoan

    I went hunting yesterday. Running out of days, so I take any opportunity. Walked in over private land with owners permission. Hunted 5 hours "walking the river upstream". I like hunting in deep cool water, it is aerobic exercise. 1st location has shallow water and some colorful teeth. We were there 90 minutes. Between different locations , I frequently move finds from my collection bag to a ziploc bag in my backpack. That was fortunate since I left my collection bag and all the rest of my finds in the bed of Steve's truck. In a post 2 weeks ago , @Harry Pristis suggested Bryozoan as a ID for one of my Peace River finds (different location)... https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/137631-peace-river-hunting/#comment-1458374 Yesterday I found a similar looking fossil. I almost tossed it back, but I am glad I did not. It is mostly round about 60-65 mm in diameter with a lot of attached concretion. I hung onto it because of this feature. Is this a holdfast, or Bryozoan remains or what ? I read that Bryozoa attach themselves to to anything hard on the sea floor like seashells or coral... Looks silicified.. Is that druzy ? Thanks for any and all Bryozoan comments. Is this identifiable to genus ? I hear there are 6000 + possibilities but this one in miocene or later.. A couple of other items in the box above... A Sand dollar or at least a piece of one...
  7. Shellseeker

    Hunting the Miocene

    I frequently return to interesting locations to hunt, so I have a history over time of what is available. and I note differences between the locations on the Peace River. I was out Sunday, We started at one location and spent 2 hours hunting... Always find shark teeth but that is quite a bit of time for so few teeth. I like the small bit of coral... likely could be Identified from the corallites. Note the number of Hemipristis serra and G. mayumbensis. I always wonder about the age of the fossils I find, even though I realize the Peace River is a washing machine of different aged fossils. So I think about just how old is the location that contains these teeth. I always have a lot of time to think while digging for fossils... Here is an interesting thread from TFF experts on G. mayumbensis.. Giving the low number of finds, we decide to move about 100 yards down stream... Definitely better, more finds but note the number of H. serra and G. mayumbensis. That is a LOT of Mayunbensis !!! more than I have found in any Peace River location in a day of hunting over 15 years... Note the whitish roots and colored blades right out of the Peace River. There is a single small P. contortus directly above the row of Mayumbensis. Above the shark teeth are 5 broken pieces of Stingray mouth plate, a possible broken Crocodile tooth, and a fish Vertebra. Top row on the left.... Some Sea Urchin spines, Sawfish Rostral teeth and one of my favorites I found this piece last spring, 50 feet away and finally a couple of fossils that might not be marine based... Likely Giant Armadillo or Glyptodon, but unrecognizable... and finally Unsure here, I usually associate this texture of bone with marine mammal, but the underside make it look like turtle, maybe sea turtle. Lots of questions, some hints, few answers... Enjoy
  8. From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West

    I did not find this one - it came from Harry Pristis. But it's in my collection!
  9. Shellseeker

    Lower cow shark

    I went out yesterday. The rains had paused, a cool front came thru, on the way home, smoke from Canadian fires was blocking out the sun in Southwest Florida... Hard to believe. I needed the exercise and hunting is always rewarding.. I realize that this is a worn fragment of a cow shark tooth. Possibly the worst looking fossil I have ever asked for an Identification. Over 15 years, I have found exactly 3 upper Cow shark teeth and no lowers. This is a location with mostly Miocene land fauna. I am hoping for some possible IDs on Genus, and even species. There just were not that many Cow sharks in the Miocene of Florida. As always, thanks for comments , discussion,
  10. Shellseeker

    Odds and ends..

    It was really hot today, hunted in the rain, actually pretty nice. Kept the mosquitoes off of me.... Great opportunity to stand in water and looks for fossils....Lots of variation in the finds... I'll show_and_tell the more common finds and then ask for help on the last few... Turtle: Not many , but a few were pretty nice.. I have found lots of turtle . This one had odd fossilization.. A neural #2 .. @digit might confirm. A very nice Hemipristis, a Sawfish Vertebra and a rat jaw with canine.. A couple of bones. I think one is a radius. Any hints appreciated: These are sort of extra credit... 2nd bone, great shape ,, not a clue... In addition to the above , found a couple of hundred small colorful shark teeth... Now the ones to be identified wrong size for Horse, either Equus or Tridactyl. I have incisors for both and this just seems wrong.... I wondered about wild hogs or common pigs... so maybe this is a peccary incisors... I find little comfort in those guesses... and now this molar... Hard to get a good photo of it.... Chewing surface above... Enjoy.. All comments and suggestions appreciated.
  11. Shellseeker

    Peace River Hunting.. May 26th

    Usually when I hunt, I stay in the same location as long as I am finding enough to justify my efforts. There were lots of larger rocks and digging was strenuous. After 2 hours, I started "prospecting" downstream looking for easier and more productive places to dig, About the 3rd place I tried, BINGO.. I was finding some almost perfect small Hemis and Tigers..easy on the eyes. Then some interesting ear bones showed up.. The 1st could be horse although it has some extra features. The 2nd is almost certainly Dolphin. Not sure if it is broken or not. Then a number of fossils , I could use help on.... A tiny 20mm black fish with curious scales... Broken Echinoids A mud rock with some Boytriodal on it.... Daniel, can to ID the fauna from its tooth enamel.. This 30 mm enamel is new to me.. There were lots of flakes but no artifacts.. meaning that this was not a manufacturing site, just a source of materials, silicified barnacles, shell, urchin spines, sections of dugong rib etc. All in all, just the type of place that could keep a fossil hunter on the edge of anticipation... Enjoy. Jack
  12. Shellseeker

    Peace River Hunting.. May 2nd

    I went hunting yesterday. My hunting partner wanted to return to a place that never ran out of gravel, and had numerous great fossils. At least the last time we were there 4 years ago... Yesterday, it was more difficult. It seemed that many had discovered this place and it is pretty close to a Peace River access bridge. In this group short where I have removed the 100s of small shark teeth (broken and whole) it seems there is little of interest, but hold any judgements... I kept a couple of bones because I wanted to use them as puzzles to solve... Some interesting finds: This Hemi is about as sweet as any of these get with black on black Peace River coloration... ID #1) How about a sliver of enamel.... The brownish area on the bottom photo implies Mammoth enamel, the enamel is thinner than I normally expect from Mammoth, and the external texture is not what I normally think of as Mammoth... What is next ID #2) This looks like a gigantic !!! Drumfish tooth, but that seems unlikely.. What is it? Does not look man_made, and it is pretty unusual as a concretion.... I do not know... And ID #3) Early in the day I found a wild pig molar and tossed it back... then I picked this up,, I said it was really odd, but was about to toss it as modern calf, he said that he did not know.... So TFF gets to see it... Calf Molar, lower left m2... It has a really odd stylid. but there seems to be lots of variability on the stylids. The enamel is translucent, and "seems" fossilized, even seems to have some HSBs, but possibly those marks are just scratches.. I think I am just sharing an odd modern tooth, As always , it was a great day on the river.... Jack
  13. Shellseeker

    Peace River again

    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...
  14. TheCreekendWarrior

    The Creekend Warrior Collection

    Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to check it out as none of my initial finds were extinct species... I have since found horse teeth at that location and can't wait for water levels to go back down!!! Hoping to add a few new species to my collection on my upcoming trip to GMR & one of the Summerville creeks (not sure which one yet but would love to find my first Angi & GW)... the GW in my pics was actually found by my Grandfather in Panama in the 70s! Thanks for looking : )
  15. Highlights from a couple of recent trips. I found two Hemipristis/ snaggletooth, the big one is perfect (rare for me). Also a nice cowshark tooth, tips intact and most of a root (also rare for me). More gray sharkteeth than usual, fewer angel shark and drum "teeth" (less gravel where I was digging?) I think the black piece with embedded gravel is a drum tooth plate; not sure what the yellow piece is? (when in doubt "Turtle"). A bonito nose and the usual sand tiger spikes. Fun to be hunting in the cooler weather, less mosquitoes and deer flies, still frogs and salamanders although the water was largely gone from the creek. We had an inch plus of rain yesterday and more expected Sunday night, so hopefully it will move stuff into the opening.
  16. Thomas1982

    Hemipristis serra

    From the album: Miocene of Maryland

    Hemipristis serra Calvert Cliffs, Maryland
  17. This hemi’s shorter side is longer than 4 cm, about 1.6 inches. I think it might be longer than 2 inches if the other root lobe is still there, so I used the clay trying to figure out the original size of this tooth. The results is almost 2, but I’m not sure if I doing it right?
  18. Shellseeker

    A rare Saturday Hunt

    Went hunting with a friend yesterday on the Peace River. Saturday is unusual for me because of increased river traffic on the weekends. Since I can hunt any weekday, I tend to avoid weekends. We were prospecting, looking for gravel. As always interesting finds: Not too many , but interesting .. One location had agatized shell: I guess this might be the equivalent of a RucksPit Calcite Clam, but this half bivalve is pretty complete and clearly an oyster. I am not positive on the creation process but think I ought to name it a silicafied Oyster. I would like to find more of this.... @Sacha @MikeR Then I picked up this interesting shark tooth. Any time , I have to roll a small shark tooth in my fingers a couple of times wondering what it is, that's the time I need to reach out for help . @Al Dente Moving locations , I came across an oddity... White shark roots coming out of white rock, under the sand and gravel of the Peace River... This will get multiple visits if it keeps producing teeth like these. A couple of deer tines, a broken Equus magnum, gator tooth, a dolphin jaw fragment, and a numbers of broken teeth, horse, bison, camel, and then this oddity. I am really not sure what it is besides a really beat up tooth.... At first, I thought Equus long upper tooth, but Equus would have the thin white lines , not the wide upper bands. then I bounced between Mastodon and Mammoth. The 3rd photo seems to show more agatized material, just slate instead of golden color. Size 40 mm long 15x20 mm. I finally settled on Mammoth fragment with the enamel crumbling and the cementum agatized. I am pleased by the interesting and unusual finds, a long day exercising in the sunshine with friends. and finding a couple of locations that I will return ...
  19. Hello, Here is what I think is a nice lot of Hemipristis serra teeth from Florida, which are about 2~2.5cm size. However I have no experience with shark teeth or teeth in general so I was wondering if these seem real, if there seems to be any restoration/reconstruction? I think most of these have nice serrations, but how is the quality of enamel and root preservation? Thanks.
  20. ClearLake

    Small Lee Creek Shark Tooth

    I received some matrix from @sixgill pete a while back in a TFF auction and picked most of it a while back and ID'd the bulk of the teeth and other material. Lately I have been going back through some of my sharks teeth and looking more closely at items I was unsure of These three teeth are one such group out of this matrix. I have read Purdy et, al (2001) a bunch of times, looked at elasmo.com for hours on end, read dozens of threads on here and am still a bit confused/uncertain. So, I figured why no just ask and get several more opinions, I always appreciate what folks here have to offer. The teeth are shown in the pictures below and it is mostly the big (relatively speaking) one (#1) I am most interested in. The two smaller ones (#2 and #3) are fairly similar looking although #3 is much more worn, and are likely small symphysial teeth from ???. Tooth #1 is 7.4mm tall and about the same width. My first guess (wish?) was a Megachasma even though I know these are extremely rare out of the Lee Creek material. It sits very flat on it's broad base and the crown is slightly curved lingually, but not as much as many depictions of this genus. There are no serrations on the crown, but it is somewhat worn and the tip is missing, so that could factor in. I have looked at all the various posts on here of possible Megachasma's, most of which are probably not (more likely symphsials of any number of sharks) and looked at Don's Megachasma that Dr. Shimada confirmed and still was not 100% convinced one way of the other. This tooth does not look dissimilar to what is in Purdy or the description written there. Some of those crowns are not very "bent" either, nor is the specimen that Don posted very curved as far as I can tell. But then I see many posts by @MarcoSr and @Al Dente and others that show symphesial teeth from Hexanchus, Carcharhinus, Hemipristis and Galeocerdo that all bear similarities. So, I ask what you think and appreciate any and all insights that can be offered. And here are some close ups of the crowns on each of the teeth just in case that adds anything useful.
  21. ClearLake

    Hemipristis serra

    From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene

    The three teeth on the left show variations in teeth of the shark Hemipristis serra.
  22. ClearLake

    Hemipristis serra

    From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene

    These are lower posterior teeth from the shark Hemipristis serra.
  23. Ludwigia

    Hemipristis serra (Agassiz 1843)

    From the album: Pisces

    Slant length 25mm. Miocene Burdigalian. Meco Beach, Sesimbra, Lisbon Region, Portugal. Thanks to Vieira for the trade.
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