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Is this a white shark tooth or a small meg? Scale in cm/mm (Peace River, Florida)
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A curious bone. What bone has a right angle? Calcaneum? maybe Vertebrae process. I hope other have seen these. This would seem to belong to a medium to large mammal. All suggestions appreciated!!!
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There are 4 (or more) fossil Armadillos in Florida. I found a very small osteoderm today. It is in this photo with an Armadillo osteoderm that I found 3 years ago, also in the Peace River. So, Is this small osteoderm Dasypus bellus or Pachyarmatherium leiseyi , a much smaller and rarer Armadillo endemic to the Peace River in the vicinity of Paynes Creek State Park. The real question is how to differentiate between these Florida Armadillo species.
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5 years back, I found a small bone from a jaguar that increased my respect for small bones and started me down the identification process. It has a spot for claw retraction and overall a medial phalanx can be IDed as such. Fast forward to yesterday. I have been visiting the Peace River and connecting creeks, trying to find places to hunt without much success. DEEP, FAST, FULL of gators. But I am persistent and found access and even a few fossils: an Equus earbone, a nice hemi upper tooth and an unknown toe bone plus a smattering of other shark and Ray teeth. Now I can recognize a Medial Phalanx although it is only 1/2 the size of the Jaguar. I realize that it is Harry, Nate, and those other Florida toe bone hunters who find this interesting. But it does give me an opportunity to show off this: Small but almost perfect out of the clay layer... My 2017-2018 Season has STARTED!!!!.
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Satisfying my fossil gene by sorting ziploc bags of old finds. When I am busy hunting (3-4 times a week) , I just dump lots of finds without looking too closely. That gives me the joy of discovery even when I can not go hunting. Here is a group photos of some small one that intrigue me. I am some what lazy and have not take small pictures of all these little one, but selected the one that seems to be a claw core. It is 1.25 x .6 inches. Hopefully others have found similar ones in the Peace River. I seems to have a denser core just sticking out in the 3rd photo down.
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Spending my time usefully. Sorting, collating, identifying, and throwing out or donating finds from last season so that my spouse will allow me to bring another fossil into the house when the season starts again. I tend to over collect and keep many things others would find useless, but there are always some treasures. One ziploc bag contained a bunch of small goodies, part of which are in this photo: Some I know, some I do not, but for this purpose I am interested in the small Sloth tooth: The tooth is 36 mm length, chewing surface 12.5x16.5 mm. This tooth is small for Sloth, not as small as P. garbani, but small, even for P. harlani, which is the smallest of the Florida ground sloths. In this post, @PrehistoricFlorida.identified a similar but different tooth FROM THE SAME LOCATION as a Megalonyx caniniform. Similar because the two teeth have the exact same texture change going down the side of the tooth. So, some questions. 1) Is the new tooth a Caniniform? In photo number 3 of 4, there is wear abrasion on the side of the tooth, but that may not be definitive. I am thinking it is a molariform, but updating my thoughts about side abrasions. 2) What is causing the differentiating texture rings around the top of these 2 teeth? Is this common. 3) We have 2 species of Megalonyx in Florida: M. leptostomus was about half the size of the later M. jeffersonii (Jefferson’s ground sloth). I doubt whether it is possible to differentiate teeth between them. It is great to be a fossil enthusiast. I really enjoy the detective/speculation. Jack
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Would love to know what these are in the first photo.. found on Venice beach in Sarasota, FL. Hurricane Irma stirred the water up quite a bit, wish I had found more.
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In one very particular site of mine on the peace river, I noticed that some of the fossils have this coloration. Here is a pretty good example on a mammoth tooth I've found. It seems that the fossils vary, but every now and again I get this mineral on the fossils. What is this? What causes it? I'm sure it's probably pretty common and I really should know this, as I'm studying geology at the University of Florida. But, hey, you guys have a collective fossil and mineral knowledge of an ancient god. Put this mystery to bed for me please.
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From the album: FloridaWhales
Order: Artiodactyl Infraorder: Cetecea Family: Kogiidae Genus: Kogiopsis Species K. Floridana Whale tooth, Length 11.4 cm, 4.5 Inches -
August is my month to catalog my fossils from the previous 12 months and summarize them in the required report to the Univ. of Florida so that my fossil permit can be renewed. As I grouped my stuff together, I found a few unknowns, mostly fragmentary, that I'd appreciate a little help with. This first one, I think, is pretty cool looking and appears to be complete. I'm not going to mess with the fragmentary stuff, since most of them aren't display worthy. Here's the little cool one from front, back and side.
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From the album: Horse
Nannippus peninsulatus Upper left Cheek Tooth, Peace River Formation, 8.7 mya, Peace River tributary creek, 11x15x49 mm broken in length, March 9th, 2015 Tentative identification as westoni due to 2 other web identifications that closely match this pattern more than other Nannippus options. UPDATE: Richard Hulbert just told me that the tooth in question is Nannippus peninsulatus not Nannippus westoni. Corrections made. -
16x9.5x5.2 mm What it it? Which animals are candidates? Looking forward to questions, comments, WAGs and an identification. Found yesterday.
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Hey all! I've been doing this about a year and I have been very busy since moving down here to Florida, spending a lot of time in the river and beach. I'm trying to catalogue everything now, and there are SO many I was hoping to ask about in the Fossil ID section, not being able to find much information, and you are all so knowledgeable I hope to gain some skills with my own identification process. I think I've pretty much gotten all the shark's teeth down, so it's mostly reptile and mammal bones and fossils I'd be posting. What's the best way to go about featuring many photos in a thread? Attachments or...? Hope to have a lot of interesting stuff to show! (The pic is my best meg, found around Veteran's Park in Arcadia.)
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Hi all! I've decided to give all of my Peace River, Florida stuff to my daughter (I've decided to focus on invertebrates whereas Viola loves/wants everything, so I'm giving her all of the shark teeth that I've acquired so she can share them with her classmates). I've already been able to identify the stuff that Viola had allowed me to keep (thanks to people here on TFF!), but I never bothered to identify the stuff she chose to keep, so I'm asking for your help once again. I was able to identify a couple of teeth that she had chosen to keep (e.g., snaggletooth, sand tiger, tiger), but I'm not sure of a few of them, so here they are: The top 3 have serrations, although the 2 on the left (lighter-coloured ones) are less obvious than the 1 on the right. I thought that they might all be "requiem sharks" (Carcharhinus sp.). The middle one has serrations along the shoulder but no obvious serrations on the crown (at least I can't see them!) - I figured that it might be a lemon shark (Negaprion sp.), but I'm not ruling out Carcharhinus sp. since their lower teeth are different from their upper teeth (I think...). The "unknown" one has very clear serrations - perhaps this one is also Carcharhinus sp. since it doesn't seem to have the shape of tiger, hammerhead, or snaggletooth shark teeth, but I'm not sure... Thanks in advance for your help! Once these are identified I'll add them to the already-labeled baggies and give them all to Viola Monica
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Hey all! This is my first ID post... I have some ideas of what I've got but could really use some input. Can definitely take more pictures of anything in particular. Paramyledon tooth? I have one confirmation on this from a well known digger in the area. What do you guys think? (Arcadia creek) Peccary or deer skull piece? Upper right maxillary area? (Peace River) Piece of coffin bone? (Boca Grande beach) Weird claw core? (Peace River) Drum fish tooth? (Peace River) Thanks for the help guys! I have a ton more but that's all for now...
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I was looking over a metaxytherium vertabrae I bought, and I saw this line. I've heard of shark bite marks on these type of things before, could this be one? If more pictures are needed let me know! Note: I don't know which subforum this goes on, I put it on questions and answers.
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I have a bone fragment from the Peace river- I've been puzzling over it's anatomic position- it seems like it could be shoulder girdle - I couldn't decide on whether to post under fossil ID or question- an ID would be nice, but I am more interested in the anatomy so here it is- the gray scale is for size- 4.7 x3.5 cm
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My boyfriend and I finally made our first trip to the Peace River two weeks ago. We were lucky enough to spend the whole week on the river with varying levels of success. We did find a few smaller megs and fraglodons. We need help identifying many of the items we are unsure of. There are LOTS of pictures headed to the ID forum so please help if you can! Pic files are big so I can only upload one at a time. We flew so I had to leave another probably 20lbs of other huge bone fragments, dugong ribs etc with a friend who lives in the area. I won't get them until they drive up here in July. Thanks EDIT: I'll use my new Moderator powers to edit your posts adding item numbers to your finds so they may be more easily referred to later on in the discussion below. -Ken Item #1
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I grew up on the Peace River in Harbour Heights (Punta Gorda for postal code). My dad retired here from FDNY sight unseen in 1959 (lucky me). Talk about fossiling back then; Wow, they had just dug all these canals and there were beautiful shark's teeth all over them, remember my dad bringing me back and us picking together. Same with summer jobs: laying sod or grading slabs for General Development while home from college; whoever got to rake the fill-dirt usually had a couple of great finds, shark, alligator teeth, whale ear bones, turtle shell, etc. One of my high school coaches, Tom Fisher, dove up what was the biggest shark's tooth found in the Peace River at the time, near Arcadia - it is still the best looking and biggest tooth I've personally ever seen. He had it proudly displayed in his Charlotte Harbor Dive Shop until some crietent stole it while he was back filling a tank. As a kid though, I was crazy about projectile points, found a few on the banks of the river, my oldest son found a nice one on the beach not 20-feet from where I found my first. But back then fossils were 2nd place for my dad and a friend who were hellbent on finding a local legend; a plugged Spanish cannon filled with gold that Jose Gaspar allegedly buried somewhere up the Peace River. Lots of conjecture on if the pirate (or if a guy who claimed he was his cabin-boy, Panther Key John was legit). A guy named Jack Beater sold a lot of self-published books about the legend. I came across this today searching for alligator attacks - as we just had a couple in the county, one reported in the Peace River. It brought me to a 2009 post titled "Peace River Help!" Interesting read. I've grown up in waters with huge gators ( Bull Sharks in the Peace big enough to bite a 100# Tarpon in half 8-miles above Harbour Heights) by being careful and probably lucky. I'm still here anyway. I'm a Captain, was a live bait Boca Grande Tarpon Guide, now co-own a 3-masted American National Historic Landmark schooner in the windjammer trade in Maine that I go up and sail part of the summer (victory chimes.com). My late wife and I bought a house on the Peace River seven lots down from where I grew up. I've always kept an eye out - found some pretty interesting things over the year. Also found some pottery shards from a massive pre-Calusa settlement that the University of Florida carbon dated to 500 B.C. Cool site, thanks for having me.
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Family Finds Partial Plesiosaur Skeleton, Peace River, Alberta
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Exciting new fossil in the Peace Country By Derek Larson, Dino News & Views Daily Herald Tribune, July 6, 2017 http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2017/07/06/exciting-new-fossil-in-the-peace-country Yours, Paul H. -
As many of you know , the Peace River is currently unhuntable due to rains and river depth. In many locations it is 10 feet deep. I thought I was finished for the season but then my regular hunting buddy called to say he had found a "shallow" location. What could this be? Always believe your friends!! Not only was it a shallow spot , but underneath the typical 12-15 inches of normal Peace River black gravel was a layer of crushed limestone , clay, and brown gravel and shark teeth. Many had the white roots typical of bone Valley teeth. And then THIS Meg ?? Only a touch of enamel left. Has the entire Meg been replaced or is it hiding under a layer of limestone? Whatever. I had a bonus day Monday on the river in the sunshine! I am feeling GOOD this week.
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Good day, A few months ago I went fossil hunting at peace river in Florida. Here I found a few things that I've not been able to identify. These two are some of those finds. I've never seen anything like it so it's been really hard to identify. I'd love to hear if anyone can identify these finds. With kind regards, Thije
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Hello all, I am a florida native who has been down in the Ft. Myers area for the past few years. I am new to fossiling, and have recently made 3 trips to the peace river. I came away with one nice 2" meg and a couple of decent hemipristis(or so I think) teeth. Hopefully I can squeeze in some dive lessons soon so I can take my 20' shamrock out to the Venice boneyard. I am hoping to use this forum to learn new techniques and maybe meet up with others on the river to learn what I can. thanks, Jason
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Never seen this before. Some sort of tusk?
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While on Sanibel Island for vacation, I decided to go with Marc (Fossil Expeditions) to the Peace River for a couple hours of collecting near Arcadia. Here are pics from my from yesterday of my finds. Not bad results from working one 3 foot area: 140 complete shark teeth, 202 partial shark teeth and other misc items: bird claw, ray mouth plates and barbs, puffer mouth plates, vertebrae, armadillo/ gator skutes, turtle shell, bone pieces.
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