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Went to a location in the Peace River yesterday where I had previously found some silicified fossils and was hopeful of finding more. This particular spot has the fewest shark teeth of any of my Peace River locations. The hunting did not start with much success. Either I could not locate my previous spots or someone else had cleaned them out. A normal hunt is about 6 hours digging, and I was 2.5 hours in with 6 small shark teeth and one slightly damaged horse tooth for my efforts. The damage to the occlusal surface is unusual and there seems to be some silification. The water is shallow, not deeper than 3-4 feet to cross the river and I am gradually moving upstream checking on the inside banks after curves. I found what seemed to be a beat up piece of coral and then soon after an upper jaw Llama tooth with 2 of it 4 roots. It almost seemed like a "honey hole" compared the morning.I was something NICE about every 3rd sieve, but also every 3rd sieve had zero fossils. I was digging in a thin layer of gravel on top of clay and mud, under 18 inches of sand which has been exposed by summer floods and it seemed that some of these had been encased in that wrapping for most of their existence as fossils. So basically something nice every 20 minutes for the next couple of hours until I have exhausted this gravel layer and forced to move upstream. Some examples: A giant Armadillo edge scute.... Look at the quality of the tiny lines, zero water erosion. This is as good as any I have found in 10 years. A small piece of dolphin jaw and a very nice River Dolphin petrosal: This was followed later by a very nice but small Dolphin tooth with some feeding damage on the tip ery good day , not my best and then a silicified gator tooth about 42 mm in length,, glittering in the sunshine. There was a turtle spur and an Astragalus, maybe from a juvenile Llama. Very good day, I would have to note the Mosquitos... 20-30 around both of us for most of the day. I take many precautions... Standing in water, 2mm wet-suits for pants and long sleeve jacket, I also wear one of those Covid ,neck_head tubes to cover my ears. Everything heavy duty spray and they were still attacking nose, cheeks , eyebrows. I killed a bunch but a few got thru. At the end , I found another tooth that might be identifiable. or maybe not.. Heading out tomorrow, Wife flies out for 10 days on Saturday and I'll be on dog_sitting duty. It is a good time to sort, catalogue fossils.

Hello All! Found this shell in MD. As I have little experience in invertebrates and have only just got into collecting them I felt I needed to ask what it was. I'm guessing Chesepacten Nefrens. Will do more Invertebrate posting soon...