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Hello everyone, I went to visit family this past week in Gilmer County, West Virginia and found these mammal teeth in a creek. They were found pretty close to each other, which makes me wonder if they were from the same animal. They appear to be old, but I don’t think they are completely mineralized. They remind me a lot of the bison teeth I find down in Peace River, FL, but this is weird considering there are no cow or buffalo farms very close to the area I found these (that I know of). Anyone have any idea what these are, why they’re here, and how old they could be?
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Hi everyone, Today I was working in the garden and found a small, recent skull. I tried to identity it but after an hour scrolling through skulls I gave up. I think that it most resembles to a rat skull but this one is shorter and has a wider top part. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!
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Possible bear claw (not sure if fossil or modern) found in Big Brook, NJ
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Just found this while hunting today at Big Brook. Not sure if it's fossil or modern, but I'm pretty sure it's a bear claw. Can anyone tell me what I've found here? Thanks!
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Any thoughts on this piece? I found it on the beach in Torrance, CA. Many fossils are found there. At first glance, it looks like a humerus bone to me, but the inside is solid, pitch black, and the whole thing is petrified. Does marrow do that, under the right conditions? Or did something else fill the void and crystallize? Thanks tons, Melanie
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Found these this past week (May 2023) washing up in the surf in the Outer Banks of NC. I thought they were from the wild ponies at first. Only after getting it back to the campground did I look further did I start to suspect that they may be a fossil. I would like to know if it is a fossil and what it may have come from. I had a equine dentist friend look at them, and she sent them to her mentor and he (he is also a Vet and she says raises exotic deer) His comment was "Those are selenodont type teeth which are found in ruminants and deer, elk, moose." Thank you for your time.
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So digging through micro matrix from the peace River this morning, and I came across this incredibly tiny mammal tooth. Using prior knowledge - 3 roots (2 missing, but still has the holes for the roots), with 1 root being thicker implies this is an upper premolar tooth. Short crown height so it’s from a senile animal. The chewing surface is similar to rodent teeth, but I’ve never seen a rodent tooth with roots. Could this be mouse? Bat? The size is incredibly tiny. Chewing surface about 1-1.5x1-1.5mm. Height including root about 2mm. @MarcoSr I know you picked through some Florida micro with lots of mammal stuff - any insight? @Harry Pristis @Shellseeker @digit maybe you guys can help as well? Apologies on the terrible pics - still struggling to get good pics with something this small!
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I apologize for the in hand photos, but I was getting the best lighting here and I believe if they are identifiable at all these photos will be okay. I found these all snorkeling in the Santa Fe river in north Florida the other day! My guesses are as follows: A - turtle? B - some type of ankle bone? C - mammal tooth D - really not sure but it looks like a socket from some large mammal maybe E - really not much to go off here for me personally, it was just such a large bone chunk that I had to take. Would be very interested if anyone has any guesses!
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Greetings all, As we approach the third anniversary of the loss of Doren "caldigger" Strane (RIP, my friend.), I am looking over some fossil pieces he gave me while standing in the Denny's parking lot at Merle Haggard Blvd in Bakersfield. For some reason this one struck me as looking more land mammal, like an equus of some sort. Or perhaps it is from a marine mammal and I just don't recognize the shape of the bone, which wouldn't be a big surprise. I do think that it's got a good shot at an ID other than "chunkosaurus", which was the ultimate ID of the fossil I asked about in my first post here 4-5 years ago. I'm pretty sure that it came from Bakersfield's Temblor formation, as that's where Doren got most of what he had. But I have not seen much, if any, land mammal fossils from there. I do know that Doren once found a little rodent skull that he donated to a university or museum for study. But I'm pretty sure that this bone isn't from a rodent of any type. At least of any type I'd want to run into in the flesh. Any ID ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Crown measures 10.7mm. The small size confuses me. Is it possibly from a baby? I’ve researched but am just getting more confused. I know it’s a brachydont but that’s as far as I’m getting. Baby pig? Baby bear? Opossum? I found it in someone’s discard pile! I haven’t found a tooth like this yet and am excited to have found it in the jaw thanks in advance! @Meganeura @Shellseeker @Harry Pristis
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With all this talk about carpals lately, I decided to take a second look at this un-ID'd carpal I found a while back. Of all the larger fauna I've looked at, it seems to best resemble the mammoth lunar, but it's not nearly as robust as my other mammoth carpals or several of the examples I've seen online. Maybe juvenile? Just checking to see if there are other possibilities I may be missing. Thanks! @Meganeura @Harry Pristis @JohnJ @Shellseeker
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Is this a whale ear bone? Age: Miocene Loc: Poland
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We found this bone while on a walk on the beach next to our home. We recently had a series of storms that surged through the seawall and tore it apart, as well as sent a lot of things downstream. This was just to the right of a rumor river mouth run off on the beach can you help me figure out what it is? There are tons of fossils in the area in the cliffs at her usually shells and small sea animals but I have never seen anything resembling something coming from a mammal before especially the size. I'm also curious how old it may be because it's fossilized.
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I found this in the creek last week, I'm pretty sure it is a tooth, but I'm not sure what kind, whale maybe? I'm not sure if it is just the break, but the shape looks like tapir? Maybe incisor or front tooth? Any ideas are appreciated, thanks! (1.25 inches, 3 cm)
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Hello friends, This week I received the following specimens and I would like to know which creature they belonged to. A) Bovine (?) B)...... (?) C) Equine (?) I look forward to your responses, you are the best!
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Savannah River Dredge Spoil-Water Worn Partial Mammal Tooth?
James Savage posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone Wanted to share one of the many things that have me stumped. The hunting spot is from dredged material from the river that has been deposited on a man-made island that has a mix of Miocene and Pleistocene era fossils. This looks like it is made of enamel and doesn't have any porous fossil bone structure that I can see. It looked at first like a very worn bit of a small plate of mammoth tooth enamel. It has what appears to be a peak and valley on part of the crown on the occlusal/top side (possibly a plate tubercle?). It is completely flat on one side and has a slight bulge outwards on the other. I don't see any area where roots extended from the crown of the tooth. The occlusal/top side doesn't seem to have the mammoth tooth plate enamel ridges. I've found a few similar appearing fossils in the area over the years from this spot. I also found a broken mastodon or gomphotherium tooth cap/hump and a few pieces of ivory bark nearby on this trip. Let me know your thoughts on ID or if it may be too worn for identification. Thanks for looking
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Hi, I have found a fossil? which i couldn't find out what animal it came from. It looks like from a horse but I'm not sure, so i need some help, please. I found it at the East Coast of England, Shotley Gate beach near Harwich.
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Not only do I not know which critter this came from but I also I don’t know which bone it is. Getting a proboscidean or rhino feel. Any help appreciated. Most likely Miocene, found in North Central Nebraska.
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Dear Fellow Fossil Fanatics, I just had a great day at Big Brook, found some shark teeth but also 3 specimens that I am not sure at all what to make of. Any insights would be awesome! Best, Huttner
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Hey everyone! Found this sacrum vertebra last weekend. It measures 4.3 inches/109mm x 2.5 inches/63mm. I know it’s mammalian, I know it’s a sacrum vert, and I know it’s from a somewhat larger animal, but that’s about it. Any further direction or IDs would be awesome! @Shellseeker @Harry Pristis @Brandy Cole
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Was in Florida for a long weekend so I spent some time in the Peace River near Arcadia, Fl and picked this up. By size and basic shape it seems like a mastodon or mammoth vertebrae, but I haven't been in the area enough to tell and granted it’s very worn. Thoughts?
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These were all found in southeastern Oklahoma. I find these occasionally while working in rivers. These were found in a sand bed river. I just want to be able to put a face to these teeth. I have several other shark teeth that I have found in the same area, but will hold off on posting for now. Thanks a lot!
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Hi all, Back again with a new ID request. Found a mammal bone in the surf of Asbury Park, NJ (USA); this area overlies and regularly exposes fossils from the Kirkwood formation which is known to have been a near-shore marine environment laid down during the early Miocene. The surf also occasionally reveals Pleistocene mammal bones as well as those of modern animals (have found bone bits and crab parts at various stages of fossilization for reference which makes it difficult to decide what's Neogene and what's Quaternary). My initial hunch was that this was a worn marine mammal rib and posted it to a local Facebook group with that in mind. It's very dense with minimal porosity (it was at the tide-line closest to the wave action where dense bone collects and was basically getting pulled back in by the coming high tide) which said dolphin or manatee bone to me. The responses I got were varied though. Some believed it to be a tooth due to an dark, enamel-like layer at the top of the 'top' of the specimen (it's 10cm or nearly 4 inches tall so that's a pretty big tooth). My assumption at that point was it might be Squalodon or some other odontocete from the Miocene. Another person believe it be specifically a incisor from the giant beaver Castoroides (based on the vertical striations) which would place it roughly Pleistocene in age. The final opinion, and the one that is prompting me to message here, confirmed my initial hunch that this is a rib fragment from a Miocene delphinid. I know that marine mammal fossils are relatively common on this forum and there are several experts that lurk around here... anyone have a clue? I've attached images of the specimen in question. It's ~10cm/~4in 'tall' and ~1.5cm/~0.6in 'wide' for reference. Sorry about the sand in the bone, it's basically impossible to get that out at this point. Will also take more pictures if needed.
