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Found in South Texas, mostly Pleistocene. My husband found this piece this week, and even though it shows a lot of wear, it seems to have retained most of its shape. Vaguely resembles a patella to me. Maybe equus? Any ideas, or is it too worn to tell?
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Today we went to a great spot we don't go often. The first 50 minutes were great, then it started raining,I can't imagine what I would have found if I got to stay a good 3 hours. We got two gator osteoderms, including the smallest one I've ever seen (below the large one) some gator teeth. Multiple mammal teeth (follow link below message to get to the ID message) horse frags, gar scales, turtle shell, and other weird fossils. Again, please go to the ID chat just to check if you can help.
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Found in the Peace River need help with identification
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Found in the Peace River, the ripples in the enamel along with the width and length are off to me it's too short and wide to be horses from what I've seen.
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How to id Ice Age Mammal bones Book recommendations
jikohr posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi everyone! I've been dabbling in Ice Age Mammal material and I'm having a hard time differentiating isolated bones between all the different large hairy and not hairy beasts we had back then, particularly in the South Central and South East U.S. Does anyone know any good id books that can help with that? Thanks! -
Hello all! I’m here to learn as much as possible and make some friends! My collection only started in October 2021, but my main fixation is mammals and mammal teeth.
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Fifty years ago my friend found this tooth on the beach near Vancouver. She has always wondered what animal it belongs to. In the picture with two teeth the smaller is from moose remains we found while hiking on a mountain.
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Hello fellow fossil enthusiasts, In the pictures included in this post it shows a molar I have found last summer. I found it within a bed of shells on a Dutch beach. I can’t remember the name of the beach, It however was rather close to Zandmotor, which is famous for its ice age mammal bones. I have shown this molar to a fossil buyer/seller and he has told me its possibly an unused molar of a woolly rhino. I thought I’d put it on here too however to see if anybody agrees. thanks for looking, AnyArthropod
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Hey Gang, I saw Jack's recent thread about camelid bones and remembered I still had this little piece shelved. I've actually got 2 fragments that appear to me to be limb bone ends that have what I think are 3 articulating surfaces but I'm only intrigued by the 1st specimen at the moment. Its about 43mm long, 28.2mm wide and approximately 19.3 mm thick at its widest point on the end. The usual Florida Plio-Pleistocene? in probable age.. I've gone thru a number of joint/skeletal images and am wondering how many different kinds of bones can have 3 articulating surfaces? One surface on the end and the two smaller areas on the sides. Is there any easy answer to that? Carpals, Metacarpals, Tarsals or Metatarsals? Any help/insight/or ID is appreciated! Thanks Regards, Chris
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Wanted to share a fossil hunting trip at peace river. Found some shark teeth, mastodon and mammoth enamel, a porpoise tooth, and some sort of mammal carnivore tooth. Can anyone identify it?
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I found the below bone on the Peace River, FL some weeks ago. I have spent a good bit of time trying to come up with an ID that fits. I believe it is a carpal bone and based on the size - 56mm x 63mm x 28mm at its widest points - I think I have narrowed it down to Sloth. I have an affinity for sloth fossils so I am not yet sure it isn't just wishful thinking. I would welcome any input on the identity of the creature that left this bone in the river for me to find! Thanks!
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Hey guys, found a new bone that I have no idea placing an ID on. Beach find, was in a hurry so please don’t mind the gameboy as scale.
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Hi there, I am brand new here and brand new to the whole Rockhounding and Fossil Hunting arena. My first fossil find was a piece of silicated wood which happen to look identical to the picture on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida Rocks site. So that was both exciting and an easy ID. My second find is this one that I found on the same site a couple of hours apart. I am at a stuck point now and would love some guidance to ID this. Here is the information that I think you might need to help me with this quest. 1. Location – Belleview, Marion County Florida (southern central part of Marion County) 2. Geology – Upon looking up USGS maps of the area It looks to possibly be on the border between Undifferentied Sediments from the Pliocene/Pleistocene Epoch and Ocala Limestone from the Eocene Epoch, with nearby Hawthorne Group from the Miocene Epoch. (I’m still trying to figure out the maps) 3. Formation – I am not sure what this means yet, but if someone explain what is being asked here I can probably give a guestimate. 4. Assemblage – none known of other than shells and I also found a piece of silicated wood. 5. Discovery – It was found in a recently cleared forest/field for a housing development. Which revealed a limestone pit (with connecting cavern/cave). I found it along a bulldozed collection pile of rocks so I am not sure exactly where it was dug up at. Near the pit or further away. I am still trying to ID the different rocks I brought home but with the little knowledge I have so far these include Chert, limestone and sandstone at least. 6. At first sight the shape resembled some of the fossils I have seen some youTubers pulling out of rivers here in Florida. So I took it home and began researching it. Trying to find what they called it. Based on the videos I saw it’s shape looked like possibly a dugong rib or perhaps a Giant sloth tooth (I think is what he called it). However, I noticed that it wasn’t dark in color like they were pulling out of the river beds and calling fossils… but it did feel and look just like the piece of silicate wood that I found on location that I mentioned above. So I did a little research on what is a fossil and understood that maybe it could be a fossil cast. I also did a little research on the epochs of the giant sloth and the dugong and found the Florida Museum of Natural history pages for each of them and although they do come close to the 3 epochs mentioned above the maps on those sites are not showing Marion County as locations for them being found. So now I am stuck as to what else to research to find out what I might have here. (If not just a really cool shaped rock which is good enough for me but would be even cooler if it was something more) Thank you so much for your help, Tad
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Picked up the below bone in the Peace River, FL last week. When it came out of the water I thought "knee cap". The only other one I have found was mammoth/mastodon so it was much larger. I have spent a lot time in the last week searching for a possible match and the closest I can come up with is bear patella. I am not 100% sure it is in fact a patella and if so bear. I would appreciate input to help ID the find. Thanks! Measurement: Inches - 2 5/16" x 1 7/8" x 1 1/4" MM - 56mm x 48mm x 28mm
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Im thinking this is probably a deer tooth since it doesn't look too fossilized. I was also thinking possibly camel or rhino since they look similar but im pretty bad at ID’ing mammal teeth. The other item is fossilized and looks like a broken piece of bone, but im not sure.
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Late Pleistocene Tahoka formation in west Texas?
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Questions & Answers
I’m familiar with the Pleistocene Beaumont formation and some of the Pleistocene deposits around the Dallas area, but what about the Tahoka formation (I believe it’s near the Texas/New Mexico border)? This formation is late Pleistocene (~36,000 years) correct? Does anyone on here have experience searching for vertebrate fossils from this formation? What are the sediments like? How fossiliferous is it? -
Can anyone tell what type of tooth this is? It seems to be fossilized but I really can’t tell. Found in Florida. My guess is a small mammal but idk what type.
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Got this tooth from indonesia with some megs I bought. Any ideas about the id? Thanks
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Found this fossil recently. looks like its possible tooth sockets and the material is very bone like but it has a secondary medium meshed with it, which is what alerted me to it being a fossil. i thought it was just a cool unique rock at first or a native american artifcact considering my finger fit perfectly in the socket. I thought it may be broken clay pottery or just some sort of tool. you guys think it could be from iguanadon? similar features for sure.
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We found this on our first trip to the Peace River a week ago. What do you guys think? Camel? deer? Thanks! Tom
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Decided to go to the beach at Katwijk, Netherlands as one of our first post Covid days out. While we didn’t go to some of the more famous fossil areas like the Zandmotor, one can always hope. There was a lot of debris on the beach after a recent storm, so hope went up. While it was mostly wood and recently deceased sea stars I did manage to pick up this piece. So far I have arrived to seal / Pinniped and maybe Phoca vitulina. No reaction to a glowing needle.
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Hi Everyone, I am completely new to identification, but I found this large tooth while walking along a creek today in the northern part of Estill County, Kentucky and I am hoping someone might be able to help me identify it.
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Is it a mammal? Or dinosaurs? How do you tell a dinosaur from a mammal? Is it a leg bone? From Zigong, China Uncertain time Thanks for your answer!
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I’m hoping someone can help me out with this ID- it is driving me nuts!! I have looked through all my books twice but I can’t find a match. I was thinking skull or pelvis of some sort but I can’t seem to pinpoint it. Southern gulf coast FL creek
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Inspired to act by Jamie‘s @JamieLynn and their “fossil a day” thread. I been thinking about creating a digital visual catalogue of my collection for a long time now . Been very dyslexic this is a difficult task to undertake. After seeing Jamie’s thread I thought one fossil a day will just take a sort time to photograph, collate and post, making this more achievable task . I will also keep a digital copies for my records. Posting on the forum means that other members can see my small collection and help me if needed with incorrect IDs or names that have changed . The forum has been really helpful in organising my collection . I really can’t gain information from books or scientific papers, the level of concentration I need to comprehend large passages of text is beyond me. This meanings that most of my information is from TFF. For that I thank you all greatly.
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