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Hey, wondering if anyone could ID this… tooth I think? Found it in a creek near the peace river my guess is that its some type of mammoth tooth but im not entirely sure. Last photo is the best results of the trip’s finds from the creek.
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Hello TFF, This is an older peace river find of mine that still stumps me, the closest guess of mine is some kind of claw based on the articulating surface and potentially a sloth “thumb” bone or something similar. I appreciate any advice or leads. Thank you!
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I went hunting yesterday. Running out of days, so I take any opportunity. Walked in over private land with owners permission. Hunted 5 hours "walking the river upstream". I like hunting in deep cool water, it is aerobic exercise. 1st location has shallow water and some colorful teeth. We were there 90 minutes. Between different locations , I frequently move finds from my collection bag to a ziploc bag in my backpack. That was fortunate since I left my collection bag and all the rest of my finds in the bed of Steve's truck. In a post 2 weeks ago , @Harry Pristis suggested Bryozoan as a ID for one of my Peace River finds (different location)... https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/137631-peace-river-hunting/#comment-1458374 Yesterday I found a similar looking fossil. I almost tossed it back, but I am glad I did not. It is mostly round about 60-65 mm in diameter with a lot of attached concretion. I hung onto it because of this feature. Is this a holdfast, or Bryozoan remains or what ? I read that Bryozoa attach themselves to to anything hard on the sea floor like seashells or coral... Looks silicified.. Is that druzy ? Thanks for any and all Bryozoan comments. Is this identifiable to genus ? I hear there are 6000 + possibilities but this one in miocene or later.. A couple of other items in the box above... A Sand dollar or at least a piece of one...
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Hello TFF, I found this tooth in the Peace River near Wauchula several weeks ago and I just can’t nail down an ID. My thoughts are raccoon or opossum. Thanks for any help!
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Trying to get out hunting more often just for the exercise and good feeling of being on the river in the sunshine. If you are not familiar with the Peace River, there are many/most locations shallow enough to hunt. I went out Tuesday to a number of locations that had proved productive in the past. This was a location that would have been over my head a month ago. We hope to find that heavy rains and currents have moved the gravel and sand around opening new opportunities. Today was mostly small shark teeth and unidentifiable bones.. I did not keep the bones. Note the colors of the shark teeth on the left. Darker colors typical of the Peace River with tannic acid. We hunted at this location for a couple of hours. It had a number of artifact "flakes" and I kept one. The rest of the lighter finds came from a 2nd location, mostly marine based... This Dolphin jaw segment is less worn and longer than the vast majority of similar jaw segments I have found in the Peace River.. Here is a sponge, once again higher quality , less worn and more complete than most others that I (very) occasionally find. These last two fossils do not show typical wear from water erosion. I will likely return to see if I can find more similar fossils.
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Out today with a good friend. It seemed to be his day 5 Horse Teeth, a Bison Astragalus, and 3 decent Megs...On the 1st sieve, I found an incisor and an hour later a small predator astragalus. The rest of my day was mostly small shark teeth until the very end. We went to a spot where we had super success for a couple of years and coming back first time this season.. It has 6 or 8 feet of large fossil producing gravel, but 4 feet of sand had rolled over that gravel and added about 4 inches of new gravel on top of the stand but that gravel contained few fossils beside those small teeth... Here is the incisor... I think it is Llama, but very small. Could it be wild pig? and the Predator astragalus... Harry identified a very similar one as Raccoon 2 years back, and finally the star of my day, This is a Miocene fossil (7-14 mya) and Rare !! Only my 5th in 15 years . A great reward for my efforts today... A high quality tooth, barely erupted...
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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..
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Combined hunting trip and Fossil ID for a unique bone. I went to a Peace River location we have hunted extensively in past years. I always believe what I preach ... Dig deeper, if you are not finding fossils, move frequently and ,,,, dig deeper. I started the day with a Hubbell Meg (42 mm Slant).. the rest of the day was gravy. My friend found 3 horse teeth, 3 Megs, a small complete Ray mouth plate, a perfect 40 mm upper Hemi and many more small teeth than I did... We were digging 5-10 feet apart. My finds: A better look at what I think is a Hubbell Meg.. My definition is pretty simple 1) size 40-45 mm 2) outward bulge on the blade.. I like this Equus Tooth... It is short only 44 mm in Height, which means an older horse and is in great shape. So a Meg and an Equus tooth.. That is what I mean by MioPleistocene. So here is a twisted and flat bone... for the Fossil ID...
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Hunting a new location today. My partner was doing much better.. The last 3-4 sieves had some interesting items. On this 1st one, I hoped for more, but this was all we found. I may have to try this location a couple of more times I have a number of these that I thought came from Bonita... This one might have come from a sardine. I always mis_identify the modern version for the fossil version... Let me ask @Harry Pristis if he thinks this is an "m3". There were some interesting bone partials, turtle footpads, and many small teeth.... The water is still pretty deep. I frequently had to close my mouth and lifting a full shovel up thru 5 feet of water is challenging. Really liked that druzy... Jack
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It had been 10 days since I went hunting, and that is bad for not being able to enjoy my favorite pastime and the pure lack of exercise. I had been up North for over 2 weeks in July. Each day fossil hunting is lots of exercise , paddling a kayak, shoveling gravel for 5-6 hours almost non_stop. So yesterday was a day hunting independent of conditions.. We picked a spot where we have hunted over and over again for 5 years... and it always produces no matter how much we take out.. I did not find very much, but Steve did, a number of Megs, a couple of horse teeth, He said on one sieve he found 37 small shark teeth. My spot was not as productive, and somewhat hard to deal with, fast water, pretty deep... I average 6 sieves an hours and usually we are there for 5 hours, If I average 7 small shark teeth an hour, === 200 + There are 206 small teeth in the photo below... and this was not a particularly a productive day. So getting down to the better items: I found 3 marine mammal bullas, a horse tooth, a tapir cap, some Meg and Mammoth Frags, distal end of a Sea Turtle humerus... Lower Equus tooth in decent shape is interesting , a little different chewing surface, like a p2. A broken Hyplural, a rostral tooth, tapir cap, puffer fish mouthplate, gar scale, silicified seashell, and of the 3 bulla, I like the smallest one best...Do not know if it identifiable, but I have time. As the finds get less plentiful, I get interested in whatever comes along... Here is a broken off Mammoth root, that I can use to identify other found in the river.. I also grabbed that bone in upper left just so I would have something to identify when I am not out hunting. I was worn and weary last night, but feeling much better, much stronger today... Therapeutic.
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Threw this in the rock pile at first until it dried out and could see more clearly. Any ideas?
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Found these (and much more) in a Peace River trip. I’m relatively new to fossil hunting, and would greatly appreciate any help in IDing these. The last 2 pictures are the same but at different angles. Best guess for those are, starting at top left and going clockwise, vertebra, dolphin ear bone, deer tooth, alligator tooth,???. Thanks!
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1. No idea on this 2. Part of a sloth tooth ? 3. Whale or dolphin tooth root? 4. Anyone know what part of tooth this is from ?
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Out hunting today, Found lots of different fossils, most of which I knew. I thought I knew this Osteoderm from the edge of the carapace, but my friend disagreed . Unusual after hunting together for the last 10 years. I decided to let TFF decide. Armadillo or Glyptodont and why? Found a variety of teeth, most broken and worn. Megs, Equus, Tapir, Camel, Mastodon, Mammoth, Tridactly, Whale, Baracuda.... Makes for an exciting day. Here are some of them..... Certainly , in the Peace river, you never know what you are going to get... At the end of the day, we had a visitor, who decided to sit on my friend's discard pile pretending to be a rock or a leaf blowing in the wind. Refused to leave until after we did. This one was rocking to the music, dancing in the breeze...
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Have no idea what this could be or enough to even ID but like the way it looks. Peace River find.
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Couple questions if anyone could answer. The first is what I think is a pretty worn down horse tooth. Second one peaks my interest because I’ve found multiple of these things all different sizes but to me it looks and feels man made. Any ideas ? Have no idea on these next two. Any takers ?
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What I believe is a fragment of a horse tooth if anyone has any ideas? have no idea about the jaw piece. whats that?
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What I think is part of a sloth tooth? Can anyone confirm this. Found in the peace River near wauchula
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Hello all, I found this rodent jaw near Wauchula in the Peace River last Winter. I finally sat down with some books and I believe it is pocket gopher of the genus Orthogeomys, can anybody confirm the genus or add a species? Thank for you any help! The photo reference is O. propinetis, late Pliocene found in Citrus County from the book The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida by Richard C Hulbert Jr.
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Found both of these jaws in Joshua creek that runs into the peace river. Any ideas on what they can be ?
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Found In A Small Creek Near Peace River. Looks To Be a Ball In Socket?
Lukas10910 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found this while fossil hunting in a small creek near peace. River looks to be a ball and socket joint, but can’t identify what species does anyone know what species this may be?
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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...
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I have been traveling for a couple of weeks and yesterday was my 1st opportunity to go hunting. The USGS gauge at Zolfo Springs was slightly over 6 feet, which is right at the limit. In the last week, it has come down from 7.5 feet. I was anxious to get out, and the river did not disappoint. Temps were going to feel like 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Good day to be standing in water, which was anywhere from waist deep and up. The water is murky , but the pea green color is gone... hopefully with the toxins that caused the color. My friend made a single very excellent find of a raptor claw approx 33 mm long. Unfortunately , I have no photo of it. The rest of the surprises were all mine... A light Gator osteoderm that feels like rock. Fossils are usually darker in the Peace River due to tannic acid in the falling leaves, but why is the mud_rock not dark. A raccoon lower incisor, a dolphin bulla, and some fossil that might be a dolphin bulla, small fish verts that could both be modern, a mammoth tooth plate fragment, piece of fossilized wood, and a bunch of "flakes"... The wood seemed odd... 1st I considered tusk, due to inside texture but with a photo , it is spongy like whale bone.. There were numerous examples or flakes and worked rocks from which flakes had been removed. I examined this next one for 15 minutes leaning over my kayak... Somehow , 2 impacts had split the rock longitudinally leaving a razor sharp upper edge... could happen if you are removing a number of flakes from a larger stone.... but then I noted some imperfections along the edge...that could have been put there by pressure flaking.... Nice fossils, interesting speculations but more excitement was coming my way.. I had been leaning over my kayak, examining the fossils, eating lunch, drinking water... as I glanced downstream , there was an "approximately" 7 foot Alligator, completely on top of the water maybe 12-15 feet away from me. The Alligator stared at me, and I stared at the alligator until he sank below the water. That did not make me feel better about the situation. I quickly strapped the sieve and shovel to the kayak, and eased my butt into the cockpit. I then paddled the 50-60 yards upstream to where Steve was digging. We left for the day 30 minutes later. This was the last time I had a similar encounter: As the Alligator approached my sieve, I retreated to the bank, and took this photo... This time there was no time to take a photo..... I try not to take chances... In this instance, I was hunting in murky water, separated from my partner, and was not paying sufficient attention to my surroundings... I'll have to do better.....
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