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Out hunting today, not many finds but a claw core is always exciting, even a small one. Pictures of the find. That last photo dried... I would have Identified this as Dasypus Bellus if only the last two photos did not show a different proximal shape.. Similar size/shape but very different attachment point. Could it be a different Armadillo ?? Working on it tomorrow.
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Out hunting yesterday, Sun shining with friends and my friends were finding lots more than I.. it happens. However, I always find somethings interesting. An Equus tooth showing traverse HSBs Posterior end of a dolphin jaw Some Galeocerdo mayumbensis, which I guess ages the site as Miocene... and just before it fell thru my sieve.. captured this Bull ? or Dusky tooth... So, now for the Fossil ID requests.. First, a very small Osteoderm... I found at least 2 Holmesina osteoderms in the group photo above, but this one seems to me not to be armadillo. This is about an inch !!! but screams Glyptodont to me.. I would like to hear from those who have found glyptodon osteoderms, what they think about this one. If consensus is Glyptodont, where on the carapace does this small osteoderm appear ? and the 2nd ID request.. Many know that I like to find ear bones, periotics, petrosals, bulla, whatever.. Is the white blob on the left edge of the photo an ear bone or just a blob of mud concretion... I will provide some additional photos to help evaluation. To me, it seems like skull material around a periotic/petrosal... I was thinking 1/2 of a dugong periotic, but I imagine that @Harry Pristis or @Plantguy have actually found those and may be able to bring some light on the topic.
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From the album: FOTM - Bone Valley Formation, Florida, USA
A lateral scute from Acipenser. These roundish scutes come from the sides of the Sturgeon -
From the album: FOTM - Bone Valley Formation, Florida, USA
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I was hunting yesterday and post a trip report: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/138017-peace-river-hunt/ I did not think I had anything that I either needed or could ask for an ID, but then this bone "talked" to me. It seems that it is not a long bone, but mostly complete (96%) and about a size to be interesting.. That means there is a reasonable chance some TFF member will recognize. It could be a toe bone like a metapodial, tarsal, carpal, of a pretty large animal like Sloth or Rhino. At 1st I thought it might be a Calcaneum but a Jaguar Calcaneum which I found is much larger. I have also seen similarities to Sea Turtle or Dolphin humerus... So it could be a lot of things. I'll have a long time tracking each possibility down. It is from an mammal or reptile that lived and died near the Peace River. I hope some members can eliminate some of the possibilities. Top: Bottom (opposite to top) Left side Right side Left end Right end Help greatly appreciated. As the topic implies... a curious short bone
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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
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Out Hunting the Peace River. Very unusual low water levels for summertime. Went back to a location that I have not visited for years, with a good friend. He found some good things.. a snake / reptile vert with processes each as wide as the centrum. 2 teeth that could be pre_equus horses, a bunch of little colorful shark teeth. I have 4 finds that I both find interesting and can not identify. 1) A dolphin jaw bone (pretty special even without teeth)... Questions: Which Florida fossil Dolphin? Very small teeth on edge of jaw. What is the brownish indention line paralleling the alveoli line? Tooth impressions from the opposite jaw? @Boesse 2) Another jaw, much smaller, possibly a family pet ? 3) An Earbone....Not Llama, not Horse, (although similar in size), Not Mammoth/Mastodon. I have lots of Equus ear bones. These are very hard to identify because few people collect them... Odd fossilization, if fossilized. Given the huge number of South Florida Fossil hunters, it is odd that this is the first time I have seen an ear bone anything like this. 1st photo is 30 x 30 millimeters. 4) and last... A bone with a facet and minimal breakage. Seems like it should be identifiable... It is 60 x 45 mm, rather thin.... feels marine mammal or alligator... As normal, I will be searching the internet for clues over the next couple of days
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I have only been out twice this month. Life interferes. A couple of weeks back I posted this thread with the fossils I wanted to identify most and got good participation to identify 3 of 4. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/125703-hunting-florida-interesting-finds/&tab=comments#comment-1366710 I found a bunch of other fossils, some of which I thought I knew, some not... I am trying to use the fossils to date the layer... Here is a list so you can copy and replace with your IDs 1) sawfish rostral tooth 2) turtle Osteoderm or Deer ungual. 3) deer medial phalanx 4) Raccoon Calcaneums 5) 2 pre_Equus horse teeth 6) Harbor Dolphin tooth 7) Whale tooth 8) Snake Vert A sawfish rostral tooth: A turtle Osteoderm or Deer ungual. A toe bone... Medial Phalanx... deer ? 2 Small mammal calcaneum.... raccoon? Two horse teeth, too small to be equus. A Dolphin tooth that might actually not be a porpoise, sorry for the blur... A whale tooth A big snake vert or something else. I always try to payback. Although I found it, I gave it to Steve... he found the location.. and has an extensive snake vert collection.
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When I first picked up this fossil, I noted lines that reminded me of fossilized ivory, but not quite. A friend polishes fossils and rocks....I asked that he polish one end... Sometimes it looks like bone.... And sometimes it looks like fossilized wood, and occassionally, I seem to see Schreger lines. All suggestions appreciated.
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Pretty nice day yesterday Sunshine, but cool, especially if the clouds blocked the sun and the breeze picked up. I was glad to have a 5 mm wet suit. My find of the day is a nice Ursus m2. These are rare !!! especially for me. I have found exactly 4 in 12 years of hunting. At this size, a female or juvenile. It is nice being on the river. The effort in digging and sifting is "on automatic". I think mostly about fossils and the Peace River. Salt water is not all that common in the center of Florida around Fort Meade, going north. According to historical sea level data, the last time we have lots of salt water was 3-4 million years ago , and previous to that, around 12 MYAs. When I see a sea shell in my sieve, I always wonder WHEN did that shell contained its original inhabitant. Was it 3 million or 12 million or maybe earlier. At a minimum , I need a shell I do not recognize in our modern assemblage of Florida shells. Hopefully, I have some friends on TFF who can comment. @MikeR is definitely one of those... This fragment might be Turritella magnasulcus, from the late Pliocene of the Tamiami Fm So, is there enough of this shell to tell us what it is ? When was this shell being dropped?
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Was going thru another bag of old stuff and found this tooth and was thinking it had different features than the last sawfish tooth I found, maybe its something else. Here's two sets of views of the newer find. It appears to have very tiny serrations and somewhat stockier and is not oval in cross section but appears more tear drop shaped. Is it a sawfish and is it the same as the earlier one I found? Are either of them Pristis or Anoxypristis? Here's a set of 3 views of the one I had found earlier. Sorry for the varying scales and orientations and angles...I need a permanent setup to make photos more standard and a process..... Regards, Chris .
