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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.

So I picked up a small piece in the sandy, South Texas Pleistocene gravel the other day because it looked like there might have been some tooth enamel, but it was so covered in a sandstone matrix that I wasn't sure what it might be. The sandstone wouldn't come off with water, but when I dipped it in vinegar last night, it started to melt away. I pulled it out quickly and rinsed it with water and realized it looks like a set of top and bottom front teeth. Maybe rat? My problem is this: the matrix is hiding a lot of detail here, and I'd ideally like to clean it off completely. But it may also be the only thing holding the upper and lower halves together. Any suggestions?

I am interested in a specific ID of this piece of rodent mandible. When I found it I immediately assumed it was mouse but then I decided maybe it is a bit too big for a mouse so I started studying small rodent dentition charts and was amazed at all the variations in the molars. Another hour in the internet rabbit hole (no pun intended). 7/8" in length (22mm), found in Florida's Peace River in a mix of Miocene and Pleistocene material.

Found this in a creek off the Rappahannock River mixed in with Found this in a creek off the Rappahannock River, Virginia mixed in with shark teeth. Curved (semi-circular), chisel on one end (two tone color), hollow on other end. No idea what the stuff stuck to it is.