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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. Shellseeker

    May I always find Interesting Fossils

    Up at 5 am, out hunting today, Valentine's day in the US. It was a short day hunting (3 hours to get to the site, 4 hours hunting, 3 hours to get back home). My wife Barbara and I always have a special dinner... Ribeye Steaks, scalloped potatoes, string beans and a desert from Norman Love. Today it was a Chocolate Bomb. Bittersweet chocolate, Milk chocolate wafer, Dark and Milk Chocolate Mousse. It was quite impressive. We split one. Back to Interesting fossil finds.. Here is all I found in the 4 hours. I do not have time tonight to focus on every fossil, but there are a couple I would like you to see before I go to sleep. The larger Astragali... I think it is likely Hemiauchenia. I have found fossils of both Pliocene species , macrocephala and gracilis at this site. @Harry Pristis will certainly know if it is Lamine, Here is a picture from his gallery. A large astragali!! My right astragali length is only 53 mm. I wonder if it is gracilis. I do not have one of those. 2nd Interesting fossil imbedded in matrix.. Looks easy but ... If this is an Alligator tooth with most of it's root, that would rare. Most of my Alligator teeth a just the enamel, with the root long gone. However, take a close look at that enamel... What is that rugosity on the enamel? and are those tiny serrations on the carina? This could mess up my ideas of differentiating factors between Alligator and Crocodile... @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon @HunterLacrosse
  4. Shellseeker

    Small Ungual

    Picked this small bone out of my Sieve a week ago. Rolled it around in my hand. Seemed unbroken, so I kept it. Seems unbroken on all edges; An outside layer over porous bone; Articulation facet on proximal end. Fauna which I find frequently at this location is Giant Armadillo, Glyptodont, Alligator. Less frequently is Bear, Sloth, Dolphin. I will check out those fauna and others tomorrow, unless eliminates the check for a fauna because they know the fauna does not match. Please comment on any additional fauna I should check. Thanks, Jack
  5. Shellseeker

    Knowns and unknowns

    Went hunting yesterday, Still not the Peace River. That remains too deep but I expect to go there next week. Heavy rains coming on Saturday and Sunday. We will see. This is a location where I have found in the past Miocene age fossils, which is a huge attraction. One thing I noted this time is that most were heavily worn. I was digging in a location I had dug many times previously and I broke thru a sand/mud layer and the gravel started to fill more of my shovel. Broken small shark teeth made up 80 % on my shark tooth finds. It was unusual that I found no Makos and no Hemis, but I did find a single small Meg and 10 Sand tigers , half unbroken. There are some Sting ray dermals, broken barbs, a single Baracuda tooth, a couple of Anoxypristis .sp rostral tooth. I found the 1st Equus tooth I have ever found in this location.. Almost 4 inches barely erupted means 4-5 year old horse and the process from a Baleen Whale petrosal. Few Finds ... lots of variety.. Here are some knowns... and now for the fossil identifications: A Tridactly horse , but not the one (Nannippus aztecus) I usually find here. A deer antler. The length is obviously broken but the circumference seems to be all there. I am wondering if you can distinguish Miocene versus Pleistocene deer just by an antler. Those look like articulation facets, I will try to find some bone that looks like it.... Trying to figure out these last 3 will keep me going this weekend. Unidentified finds are like crossword puzzles for me. All assistance greatly appreciated. Jack
  6. Shellseeker

    Beluga and more

    Went hunting yesterday. We have had a lot of rain and the Peace River is 3-4 feet too deep but it has been dropping and just due to withdrawal symptoms, we decided to try one of the streams that might have some low spots. The lighter colors tell you these are from a stream. That is a dugong rib segment upper right, mostly small shark teeth, a couple of Meg Frags, chunk of Mammoth plate, puffer fish mouth plate bottom. A Beluga periotic made my day. They are far rarer than Megalodons.. Only my 2nd in 15 years... the 1st was October 2021. There are other notable finds: A very small dolphin tooth (I will try to identify it, just based on size likely a small river dolphin). A Sawfish rostral tooth and then what I am trying to get identified.. a 31 millemeter enamel fragment with a unique tip. Additional Photos... This last photo of what I thought was the root end seems to have a chewing surface like enamel, so the "tip" above might be the end of a tooth root ??? This may be obvious and I'll but I have seen LOTS of broken enamel over 15 years. For example, that very thin broken enamel is similar to broken horse teeth, but I have not seen a tip that looks like this one on any Bone Valley tooth. All suggestions greatly appreciated. Jack
  7. Shellseeker

    Hunting in the cold

    Yesterday was going to dip into the high 40s F in the early morning and top off at low 70s. I know it is not the same as being up north, but deciding to step into water when the air temps are 50 degrees always generates a gasp even with a 5 mm wetsuit on . However, opportunities are few in December for me. We are hunting a location that used to produce Miocene fossils , but has been heavily worked. Mostly it produces small shark teeth today. However, like @Balance, I have learned something about layers.. and I know that I may be able to dig thru mud and sand clay, and even gravel and discover an un_dug pocket. We had found a spot where small teeth had rolled in so we could get 10-12 in a sieve and spent about 90 minutes digging. There were also a few broken Ray teeth and barbs, but I hoped for something more for this day beyond the small shark teeth. I was about to pack up, move downstream probing for gravel. For whatever reason, last sieve at this location was going to be a little upstream. There is quite a bit of gravel from old discard piles.. and a pretty deep hole. I like digging in deep holes because I favor deep water. So I stuck my shovel in the bottom of the hole and the tip hit gravel below sand and leaves. Not too much in that 1st sieve, except a couple of small rostral teeth from the knife toothed sawfish and I have hunted here quite a bit previously. This is likely from a mid_miocene Tridactyl horse named Nannippus aztecus. and that find just made my day. I was no longer thinking about what laid downstream. In subsequent sieves, we broke thru the gravel into clay... This was the only Meg I found and that was enough. I like Miocene horses a lot better than Megs . This is a pretty good Meg .. root, serrations, color, a little tip damage. My friend found 3 Megs , none quite as good as this one. We stayed the rest of the day.. Another nicer horse tooth. Multiple teeth from the same animal always get the juices flowing but this one is right lower rather than left. Too quickly the fossils in the sieves got fewer and fewer... We ran out of the pocket. The other thing that ran out was time. There are other pockets, but those will have to wait for another day.
  8. Shellseeker

    Finds yesterday, Oct 26th

    Went out Hunting both Wednesday and Thursday. Very unusual, I usually need recuperation time, but it seems the extra exercise helped. So what is happening is that we are starting to Hunt the Peace River again because the water depth has dropped. We are returning to places we have not been in Months to "test" the depth. On Thursday we picked one of those After sorting out small shark teeth , these were my best finds of the day. I especially appreciate the green marble. Usually, I was digging in water just above my waist but lots of deeper holes all around me.. This was limiting how deep I could dig, even when I did find gravel. In my first sieve of the day up popped the premolar in lower right. Because of the size, I immediately thought it was deer. But I am frequently wrong, more so than I would like. It has an APL of 14 mm. and 3 roots.. I looked at deer first. I thought this would be premolar 1. But it was not deer. and that is exciting. I LIKE finding fossils I can not identify initially. After searching TFF and the internet for a while, I came upon one of @Harry Pristis great pictures. It is amazing that such a big animal has such a small tooth. This is a nice find , especially at the size. Next up a small Mako and a Dolphin... A layer of the Dolphin enamel has been stripped from one side. But the rugose nature of the remaining side enamel would seem to confirm Dolphin. I do not have many dolphin teeth like this and I am pleased to get this one. Then a small bone that has some unusual features and I will try to Identify. This is all about 1) I like to identify my finds so that I will recognize them the next time I see one. This bone might be a Calcaneum, but I am unsure. Finally , a large incisor... I was initially thinking Llama, but there are some features that do not quite match, so I went looking at Horse, Bison, Cow... and found little to change my initial opinion... The shape of the tip seems to be Llama ( Hemiauchenia macrocephala) but I have not seem similar curving folds of the lingual edge, and the rest of the incisor seems more similar to Equus than to Llama. but for the moment , I'll stick with Hemiauchenia. These are good finds, I had very successful day. It was nice to be in the Peace River again. It took me a while to prepare this post. Likely will get to describing Wednesday finds tomorrow. All comments welcome and appreciated.
  9. Shellseeker

    Heartbreakers

    Out hunting today, and that's a good thing. My primary exercise is Fossil Hunting and it is strenuous for me. I need to hunt twice a week to stay in reasonable shape but for the month of September, I was out hunting 5 times. The "special" finds are always more exciting but today there were not many combined with finding fewer small shark teeth than previous outings.. In the last 90 minutes, we decided to visit previously fruitful locations, each filling a sieve and moving on if nothing special was showing up. With 30 minutes to go, along with 7 small shark teeth, 2 dermal denticles, and a couple of sawfish rostral teeth, out pops a pretty nice Meg. At first I thought unbroken, but definitely a heartbreaker.. Great fat root, nice serrations. Even broken , this is special... 2nd last sieve, a tridactyl horse upper molar, slightly distressed and possibly identifiable. I think it is likely Nannippus, but I will be trying to ID species. Great day. No rain, slightly cooler and found a couple of specials and Zolfo USGS gauge coming down. I hope to get back to Peace River hunting late next week.
  10. Shellseeker

    Peace River Hunting

    The Zolfo USGS river depth gauge was down enough to believe that some of the low water spots would not be too deep. It has been months since we have gone back to this particular spot on the Peace River. Last time, I picked up a very nice Meg, a quality dolphin Bulla, and some silicified seashells. We had some cool temperatures predawn Monday with my car thermometer showing 61 degrees Farenheit. I just had a 3mm jacket and wonder if it would be enough. It was enough. The sun came out and there was no breeze. Big plus is that the coolness kept the mosquitoes away for a while. There was a fairly strong current and the water tended to be deep, in the 4-5 foot range. I had found some pretty shark teeth in past trips... Here is one of them. This is one of those locations on the Peace River where I have never found a Sand Tiger... but it does have a lot of Hemis. I was glad to get out . I found a few things , but not very much. Steve found a 2 inch canine, a couple of tapir teeth, and a couple of nicer Megs than the one I found. So, a whale vert, section of a dolphin jaw, dolphin Bulla and petrosal both very worn, some partial silicified seashells. and small shark teeth. There are a number of decent upper Hemis, and then a couple of Galeocerdo mayumbensis (Steve found 5 decent ones.) That's an example of a relatively rare tooth that shows up in numbers occasionally. Note the whiteish roots on some of the small shark teeth.. Definitely interested where they are coming from... The Peace River usually stains these black. When I am not finding lots of things, I tend to keep more then I should... Here is an example. It is about 40 mm and I just felt I should have recognized... a turtle or gator bone.. I'm thinking turtle... A nice outing good exercise, and the feeling that the season on the Peace River is starting..
  11. Shellseeker

    Exceeding Expectations

    The Peace River is coming down, but not fast enough. I went out thinking about deep water, possible rain, and hopes to find some really nice small Shark teeth, Tigers, Lemons, Hemis, etc,,, I found all of those, but other goodies also... Here is a "group" photo.. and some of the goodies... The 65 mm Meg came out of the clay like this.. 15 minutes later, we had a color change Silver and yellow to Steal Grey and a light brown then a 53 mm tip of a Ray barb A couple of what I think are dolphin teeth,, here is a photo of the smaller one... I will be trying to ID this tooth. Is this just a juvenile version of Goniodelphis hudsoni ?? This fish vert is only 23 mm, and I do not have high hopes of Identification but sometimes TFF magic just happens... Finally , a Mako... Is this hastalis? Great day, lots of finds,,, some interesting... Comments Welcome Jack
  12. 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,
  13. Shellseeker

    Whale Bulla

    I am home today with NFL Redzone playing in background, wishing I could be out hunting. So time to look at recent finds. Here is one. This is about the best quality whale Bulla that I find.. The rough and tumble of the Peace River really wears them down. Having spent a lot of time looking at Bullas on the internet this morning, I believe this is a toothed whale. It is 85-90 mm in length and I am interested in what that "bump" upper right is named. Its a connector to the Petrosal. Found this in a research paper, If I am reading this correctly , this Bulla was on the left ear of a sperm whale sometime in the late Miocene. I know that @Boesse skills are required here, but if other TFF members have Baleen or Toothed whale Bullas that also have this bump, please post more examples. Comments and Suggestions always appreciated
  14. Shellseeker

    Marine Petrosal, Vertebra, partial jaw

    Gorgeous day. Sunshine through 1 pm, then Thunderstorms developed with rumbles and winds that cooled me kayaking back to my truck. Not a drop. This is my favorite location, MioPliocene with lots of variety: GWs, Clams and corals, mammal and fish jaws without teeth, No time to discuss it all, but enough to get photos and ask for help on three. 1st up a tiny (because it is the smallest I have found) Petrosal. I am thinking river dolphin based on size, but It is different that those I thought were river dolphin.. Any time I seek an ID , I always search the Internet for a matching image.. On my 1st page of images, this one pops up... Take a look at A1 and compare it to my find today... REALLY close .. Only issue is that mine is half the size of these that come from Globicephaline Whales from the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation of Central California, USA. For the uninitiated , Globicephaline is another name for Pilot Whale. How can mine be so small and come from a whale? @Boesse Next is a small section of a Fish Jaw.... Two rows... One large, one tiny running parrallel. Is Aligator Gar the ONLY Florida fossil fish that has this characteristic ? Finally, the Fish or Shark Vert.... This seems similar to the Tiger shark Vert I found back in 2018....but not sure.. Very rare find for me...
  15. 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.
  16. Done Drillin

    Odd St Mary’s River bone

    Hoping for any help in identifying this odd piece of bone I recently found on the bank of the St Mary’s River in North Florida/ South Georgia. It measures 3.5 in at its longest point and 2.5 inches at its widest point. It comes from dredge material that ranges in age from Miocene to Pleistocene. Anyone ever find bone that is layered in such a way as this ? I realize it is just a chunk-o-bone so definitive id is difficult but if anyone has any ideas on what it possibly could have come from it would be greatly appreciated !
  17. Shellseeker

    Hot Day, small fossils

    Another hot day when it is nice to be in the river water. Zolfo is a little over 6 feet and so we try to exploit those spots which were lower than average 2-3 months ago. A lot of interesting finds, many on the smaller side. A spit tooth and a small Meg I almost recognized this as a large version of a Tilly bone. Hopefully some can confirm or comment... Rostral Tooth.. Is this identifiable to Pristis pristis ? A dolphin periotic, have to work on which dolphin. It has some variation on what I normally find. I think the next is a sponge (silicified). Not clear what else it could be... I see many of these endocasts of shells over time. Decided to attempt the specific shell this time... Finally , an interesting Osteoderm.. I would like it to be a Glypodont tail Osteoderm, but it might be from a Giant tortoise.... Should be other Peace River hunters who have seen these...
  18. Shellseeker

    Hunting Bone Valley

    I am looking for opportunities (combo of weather and water depth) to go hunting. Yesterday was one of those days with afternoon Thunderstorms. Got out about an hour early, trying to catch morning sunshine. Having been to this location before, I am expecting mostly marine shark teeth (Megs, Hemis, Dusky/Bull, Sand Tigers), Stingray fossils, Puffer-fish mouth plates and fewer mammal fossils. Expectations were met. Here is what I found... couple of hundred small shark teeth Plus.. usually it is the plus that interests me most... It took a while but I sorted down to this....the stuff I would keep for a while.. A photo of what should be an Alligator tooth: Sharing because of details on internal "rings" and unusual wear pattern.. A nice Ray barb find (for me) ... usually do not find the tips this long. Is this identifiable to species of Ray ? Then a pleasant surprise. I do not find many Bison teeth.... Then a relatively small lower tooth of a Tridactyl horse... At 40 mm, the longest Crown Height I have found in any of the smaller horses. An extra photo for those trying to ID to species and tooth position... Finally, An Equus tooth... This is an odd tooth, Long and THIN... 10.8 mm at its widest point, not much wider than my Nannippus tooth (8.1 mm) above.. Note the Transverse Hunter_Schreger Bands on the root end of this photo below Finally , it seems that the top edge of the chewing surface was "agatized/silicified" but that is now deteriorating....A very interesting tooth.. Mostly the shark and ray fossils came early and the mammal teeth later. The Thunderstorms held off until 1:15 pm, as I was finding the mammal teeth and because of that, had delayed my departure.. 30 minutes of Thunderstorms, heavy rain and flashes of Lightning drove me to cover and away from my shovel... I left after just one more sieve.... All in all, a glorious day with interesting finds...
  19. Shellseeker

    A small bone

    Yesterday, I tried to return to the Peace River at the location I hunted Wednesday with my son. As I reached the river, I noted it was 18-20 inches deeper than last time. I would say neck deep, fast currents. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/134026-a-day-in-the-sun-with-my-son/ It takes me 2 hours to reach the river, so going home was not an option. We decided to check out a creek, which would have lower water depths. Found marine fauna (shark, ray, urchin, barracuda, fragments of dolphin bone) and one odd bone. I do not find very many G. aduncus. The blade is not curved and lays flat ... Recently, I had found and identified with the help of TFF, an alligator coracoid. It is a shoulder bone. and because I thought there was resemblance to this bone, searched for coracoids on the net. Many of the images that came up were avian, but they had very different proximal ends.. Then I saw this picture that @Harry Pristis added to a TFF thread, This seems more like my find... so a very goof possibility that it is turtle. @digit has turtle knowledge. Let's see what he thinks... The location seems dominated by Miopliocene marine fauna but there are lots of turtles that could drop a bone in the intervening eons....I always try to learn something new.. with each new find... The knowledge builds up over time.
  20. Shellseeker

    6 canines, 1 incisor

    I had to stay home today, We had some water damage and workers are scheduled to replace the floor in my Study, Fossil Collection room... and I had to clean it out, probably take 3 days... Going was slow because I kept on finding great stuff in nooks and crannies. Some of these may have been posted before, but not many.. The 3 on the left are likely river dolphin. All have similar enamel rugosity. Tooth #2 is 34.5 mm. The 4th tooth might be a true dolphin.... the Harbor dolphin.. These are pretty rare. I'll need @Boesse not only for these 4, but a small Bulla down below... I do NOT think those are serrations on the 2nd photo, just a ragged edge to a break... 5th tooth is an incisor..Given the location it is possibly the lower left incisor of Hemiauchenia gracilis. 6th tooth is 33 mm. I do not know.... It is kind of unusual ... it has a bulging root, slanting enamel with a Carina... looking for suggestions. I added the last canine, even though i strongly think it is raccoon, which also has a Carina, but it is not the same as tooth #6. So much for Canines, How about a dolphin bulla? This is is 30 mm and in great shape. I am hoping Bobby can ID... @Meganeura I think you have been seeing lots of claws and unguals lately, How about this one? Somehow when I found this, I never IDed it... When I younger and going out back to back days, I would frequently toss into ziplocs, and not get to take photos...
  21. Shellseeker

    Curious finds

    Some more items that I found last Sunday with out with @DirtyHippie and @jcbshark..Had a few questions... Much of this went into the collection bag, with the view that I would figure it out later... I had previously found many rostral teeth in the Peace River of different types. I only have one bigger than this one. The grove on the bottom identifies the genus as Pristis and I thought it was P. lathami. What's confusing me is that P. lathami seems restricted to Eocene/Oligocene but I have found many in the Peace River. So my question is what species of Sawfish possesses this tooth. I also found the 1/2 Sawfish vert, which I previously believed to be P. lathami. I added to the photo a P. lathami Vert that I found years back in the Peace River for comparison purposes. I'm just a little confused about the age of the Sawfish fossils I found last Sunday.... There is another oddity in this last photo... That 1st photo made me think Echinoid... Is this an Echinoid.. I have found pieces and a very few whole) Sand Dollars in the Peace River... never one of these. I guess it might be a Tillybone. Curious. Please let me know what you think.. Jack
  22. Shellseeker

    Iniid Tooth

    I like new experiences , so went to a dry land fossil dig site in Hardee County, Florida.... Not many finds, but quality over quantity... My back hurts from Shoveling gravel, mud, sand, clay for 6 hours and to think, I pay to do it. It is 32 mm in length.. Distinctive, certainly found by many TFF members on the East coast, including @Harry Pristis in the Peace River and @SailingAlongToo in Virginia. So, labeled as Unid. River Dolphin, for the time being....
  23. Shellseeker

    A day in the Sunshine

    Yesterday, I returned to a hunting location that I had not been in a couple years. It is difficult to get to... lack of paved road and miles of kayaking, I always have great anticipation, and I did find lots of fossils, lot of bones, some teeth, but curiously few that I did not recognize. Might be E. eomigrans based on other fauna found here... Found a number of Horse teeth, uppers and lowers, too large for tridactyl and then this slightly damaged one... I think it is N. eurystyle, but curious on what others think. Then a Giant Tortoise leg spur or....maybe a claw core... I have this from @Harry Pristis and then a number of turtle claw cores...including one from @PrehistoricFlorida So I'll ask Harry to comment on differences between Tortoise leg Osteoderms versus Tortoise claw cores versus Turtle claw cores... Finally , I will conclude with a rather mundane , small broken fish tail... Is this really in the Billfish or Tuna family as advertised on the net. This tail is 44 mm in length and about the same size as the few others I have found. I guess there were Bonita back in the Pliocene also
  24. Shellseeker

    Unknown Bone Valley Vertebra

    My only time out Fossil Hunting in the last 2 months was October 20th.. A great day, very relaxing. The water in the creek was deep and fast, so I did not come up with my usual quantity or quality. That is a Rostral tooth, a Vertebra, and a smattering of small teeth, some colorful. Here is one worth sharing, small and pretty. I imagine micro fossil hunters are used to seeing such treasures. Most just slip thru my screens. What I am attempting to do is ID the Vertebra... It is from a small animal, maybe 50-75 pounds based on size of the Vert. Because of flatness, I think it is likely a caudal vert. From my own knowledge, it is not horse, bison, sloth, gator/croc, not dolphin or manatee. I think I will start by looking at Armadillo tail verts. Possible a member familiar with US Southeast fossil vertebrae will recognize and cut my search short... Thanks for any and all assistance. Jack
  25. Shellseeker

    Bone Valley Oddity

    I was out today hunting with friends. Little shark teeth, a couple of small Megs, a couple of barracuda teeth and then this... I have never seen anything like it, close on 15 years hunting these locales. I can hope other have. It seems to be enamel. Can it be a tooth ?, a tilly bone, ... a fragment of tusk... Speculations absolutely encouraged !!!! In this last photo, I find those "bumps" around 15 mm interesting. The outside texture on both sides reminds me of whale or maybe gomph. What is this ?
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