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I was out hunting yesterday on the Peace River. I returned to a spot I had hunted last Thursday, Feb 28th, It rained over the weekend. Many /most locations were too deep to dig. I LIKE deep water because it is aerobic exercise for my lower back but I prefer not to be holding my breadth as I did. I did not find a large volume of fossils, many were bones, especially Dugong ribs which I tossed back. Small Shark teeth, Turtle Osteoderms, an Alligator Osteoderms, Deer tine, Broken Equus tooth, One question is that Bovid tooth... It is really nice... I would certainly like it to be Bison.. I like this Medial Phalanx... I do not think it is Horse, Might be Tapir... It is definitely small I found a Carpal that is smaller than I am used to finding for Camelids. I may indeed check the Tapir carpals. Same thing with this Ear Bone, too small to be Equus but similar to Equus . Both Horse and Tapir are Perissodactyla. I have never identified a Tapir ear bone. Then there were more unusual bones... unusual in the sense that I have no clue.. This bone has articular facets...like a carpal or tarpal, but the following 2 Photos of the same bone does not look like any carpal I have seen.. Time for me to do a lot of looking All assistance and suggestions gratefully appreciated... Jack

Here are a few molars that I’m stumped on. They were all found In NE corner of Kansas in some Permian (edit: not Permian) glacial drift material. Molar #1: Going through @Harry Pristis’s album, to me this one resembles Tapir, but I am doubtful Molar #2 I have no ideas on this one, initially guessed peccary but I think that is incorrect Molar #3 This one has some of the root, although some of the top surface has been broken Thank you to everyone in advance! I try to ID our fossils myself, but these I can’t seem to figure these out. Have a great day everyone

Due to the holidays, my last time out was 2 weeks ago. The nights have been cooler lately and we had some recent rains. Yesterday was sunny/overcast highs in low 70s F. I went out yesterday to a favorite location. Took a 5 mm wetsuit which was not quite enough to avoid occasional chills. The water was deeper so I could not quite reach the gravel and moved to a spot that had smaller gravel, more sand and shell. I recall thinking I might just try a sieve or 2 here and then move upstream prospecting. So much for that idea. In the 1st sieve was a tridactyl horse lower tooth. I would hunt here for the next 6 hours. I was finding fewer fossils than normal at this site, but the quality was better. For example , instead of 250 small shark teeth, I found 50. There were many broken bones and I kept a few that had potential for identification. In searching for comparisons, I found a @Plantguy thread where he was looking for IDs on horses, tapirs, and filefish. @Harry Pristis help out on differentiating Tapirs.. https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/76697-florida-vertebrate-unknown-questions/ I wonder if Chris ever IDed his tapir. A few closeups of what I believe are accurate IDs looking for comments. Early in my hunting days, I found an almost complete 3.5 inch Ray barb... Any time I see one near 2 inches, it makes my day An upper hemi around 2 inches, even broken is a welcomed find One of the best filefish verts I have ever see, Look at the detailed lines on the inside of the centrum.. Nice tooth.. HSB traverse lines on the enamel. I say peninsulatus based on the age of the location AND the long time ratio of peninsulatus versus any other Tridactly at this site. There are at least 6 species of tapir in the Florida fossil history, I have found 2-3 of them at this location, but this ones looks a lot like Tapirus haysii, much more than others . That was the show and tell part of this thread... Here is the request for ID. I know that 1st photo looks like a conglomerate rock.. I almost tossed it, then turned it over to see the 2nd photo and thought maybe Dolphin earbone, At 16 x 11 mm, really small. What do you think?

Hunting 10 days ago, I found a fossils at different spot and now have the time to show these: I believe it to be a Tapir right side mandible with no teeth. As time permits , I may try to ID which tapir. Upper right is an antler stub, then a barnacle cluster and a number of shells that I have not IDed. I think the coral on the right is Solenastrea hyades, which did exist in the Pliocene_Pleistocene of Florida But the fossil I want to identify is this: What is it ?... echinoid ? I have a sand dollar that is something like that... maybe gastropod worn down to an inner slice ? In this case, your guess is definitely as good as mine, because mine is not very good.

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.

Please advise. Thank you

Can anyone ID this tooth? It was found on a creek bed which had tumbled onto a formation of blue-clay. I had to remove a small portion of one end to verify its content. It was found in SW, MS on 04-08-23. Other findings include unknown type of rib bones, horse teeth, tapir teeth, and cow skull (questionable).

I recently found my first unerupted beaver (Holmes capybara) incisor chunk: I hadn’t previously held one. Now that I have, there a couple unidentified things I’ve been saving that may possibly be beaver tooth. This first one - could it be the top of an incisor? Or am I way off and it actually belongs to a tapir? It doesn’t photograph well so I added lots of pics and a video - it matches up with my capybara chuck pretty closely. Piece#1: Piece#1 next to capybara chunk: IMG_6128.MOV The 2nd piece is small but someone may be able to tell what it came from piece#2: IMG_6128.MOV

Hey guys! Thought you would like to see what I've been recovering from a site in North Florida. To date I've recovered the associated jawbone, humerus, radio-ulna, vertebra, and upper molar/incisor of a tapir. Today we also found some beast shark teeth and a sick arrowhead. Enjoy the pictures and video!

I found this broken end of a long bone several months ago near Houston in the late Pleistocene gravel deposits of the Beaumont and Lissie Formations. Here are some pictures (with each grid on the graphing paper being 1/4 of an inch): I know that it's the end of a tibia because the grooves on the end are shaped to match an astragalus (ankle bone), and that their slanted angle indicates a perissodactyl like a horse, tapir, or rhino rather than an artiodactyl like a bison, pig, deer, or camel. Based on the size of the bone, I think I can pretty easily rule out rhino, which leaves only horse or tapir as a possibility. Now, I've never found a single tapir bone in all the time I've spent hunting in this area, whereas it seems like there's such an overabundance of horse material that I'm literally tripping over their teeth and bones any time I take a step (that and turtle shell fragments)! Needless to say the odds are definitely in favor of horse. What's stumped me is that it seems just too small to be a horse bone - at the very least, not one from an adult anyway. I know that three-toed horses were often smaller than their one-toed cousins, and I've found their teeth before as it's not too uncommon for them to wash down from the older formations north of where I'm hunting, so that's also a possibility. My main problem is that I can't find any reliable measurements online for the distal end of a tapir tibia to compare mine to. So if anyone has any old literature with some helpful information or (even better) pictures, I'd love to see them. Any help is appreciated! @Shellseeker @Harry Pristis @garyc

Today we went to a spot that we don't go often, it started raining about 50 minutes in (we should have checked the weather) but we got quite a few fossils including these unidentified ones (sorry about the picture quality on some of them) the first I believe is a gator tooth with root, the second set, I have no idea about, the 3rd might be dugong, the forth and 5th I think are deer, the sixth I think is tapir, the seventh Is some sort of rodent and the last I believe is a snake vert.

Today we went to a great spot we don't go often. The first 50 minutes were great, then it started raining,I can't imagine what I would have found if I got to stay a good 3 hours. We got two gator osteoderms, including the smallest one I've ever seen (below the large one) some gator teeth. Multiple mammal teeth (follow link below message to get to the ID message) horse frags, gar scales, turtle shell, and other weird fossils. Again, please go to the ID chat just to check if you can help.

Out to the Peace River, FL twice this week, Tuesday & Saturday. Was busy tracking down an ID for what turned out be an eagle or large hawk toe bone. With that done and a trip out yesterday I thought I would combine the two visits into one trip report. The weather was perfect both days with temps in the mid 80*s. The water flow and level were excellent and visibility great. It was easy to see the bottom and anything laying there. A shot of the morning paddle to the dig site - Got there and started digging with the first good find being the phalanx or toe bone mentioned above: The usual array of small shark teeth kept a steady flow into the sifter and then along came a small antler followed by a chunk of mammoth tooth and a turtle leg spur. There was also a large bone piece that may be part of an alligator maxilla. An armadillo scute and turtle scute rounded out the day for variety. I usually take a break and do a walk around the area where I am hunting just looking to see if anything interesting is sitting on the bottom. This day I was surprised to see two perfect pieces of a turtle plastron or underside. I picked them up in about two feet of water and was surprised how clean they were. They are obviously modern, but I kept them was my son has an oddity and taxidermy business and will surely find a buyer for them. Later I came up with a rounded bone that I think may be a patella. The only one I could find at the size of the specimen is bear. I will be doing more research on this one and may post it in the ID section for help. Headed home in the late afternoon and took a few more pictures of the river. In the first you can see how clear the water is, notice the branches on the bottom. In the last photo you can see can see three Ibis sitting in the tree over the river - its a good idea not to paddle under them! Yesterday turned out to be another great day with some exciting finds. The morning turned up probably the largest piece of antler I have found at 4" long and 1.5" around. About mid morning a Tapir tooth with roots popped up along with a partial vert that I have yet to identify. Shark teeth continued to appear in each clean out. Took my break for a walk around and suddenly came upon what seems to be the rest of the turtle plastron/underside shell pieces from the poor deceased turtle I found part of on Tuesday - Now I really have a package for my son's collection! To my pleasant surprise the afternoon turned up another Tapir tooth crown and a 1/2 crown. A dolphin tooth and a half of another one wound up in the sifter a little later. Continuing the Dolphin theme a periotic also managed to turn up. Another vert came up but it is probably too damaged and encrusted to be able to ID, but I kept it anyway. A small set of modern deer teeth also appeared. Some photos of the two days worth of finds - First group -left side - cup of miscellaneous shark teeth,3 tapir teeth/crowns, one dolphin tooth, one partial dolphin tooth, dolphin periotic right side - Snaggle tooth shark, tiger shark, lemon shark Some of the larger finds - Left side - Gator maxilla (?), two turtle leg spurs, mammoth tooth chunk, two small pieces of ivory Right side - Antlers, unk vert, armadillo scute, patella(?) It was a rewarding two days and I am looking forward to getting back next week!

Got back out to the Peace River, FL yesterday. I usually try and get there by 0800 AM but with the cold overnight temperatures this week I delayed my start time until closer to 0900 AM to let the sun rise and warm things up a bit. I was glad I did so as I found the sun high enough to be warming up the spot I had targeted for the day. The morning was mostly a lot of the usual small miscellaneous shark teeth. I did find one small, and I mean small, alligator tooth. A partial small shark vert also turned up. Rounding out the morning were several nice Hemis, upper and lower, a nice size partial meg and a few extinct tiger shark. A few small pieces of deer antler were found mid-morning. After taking a lunch break and warming up in the sun I moved up river a short way and got on some larger gravel. A lot of Dugong pieces were coming up and I found several bones mixed in that I will need to research for a proper ID. This spot also turned up a partial tapir tooth crown, several pieces of turtle shell, an unknown limb bone and what I believe is a scapula. At least two the bones appear they could be toe bones. Throughout the afternoon various shark teeth continued to be found with each sift. A few pieces of mammoth tooth plates turned up as the day wore on. Some photos of the days finds to this point - Left side - Mammoth tooth fragment, three pieces of deer antler, unidentified limb bone (?), unidentified scapula. Right side - Extinct Tiger, partial Meg, Tiger, Hemis, Lemon shark, small vert, tiny alligator tooth, partial Tapir tooth crown, cup of miscellaneous shark teeth Close up of the vert, Meg, Tiger, Tapir and Alligator - Two pictures of the bones yet to be identified - possible turtle shell, couple of toe bones(?), possible partial ear bone, etc. Just when I was thinking it was about time to call it a day up came the below nice sized Cetacaen(?) Vert! The blue ruler is showing MM and the pink inches. Vert measures 3.25"L X 3" W X 2.5H. or 85mm L X 80mm W X 65mm H This vert made my day, one of the better ones I have found in the Peace River. Looking forward to my next visit!

Got back to the Peace River Fl yesterday. When I set off in the kayak at 0820 am it was breezy and a chilly 53* F. The wetsuit was definitely needed if I was going to stand in the river all day. The water was crystal clear and with the sun out it made for a beautiful day. I took some photos after the sun had risen enough to clear the overhanging trees and light up the water. I got back to the gravel bed I have been working on my last few visits and found it undisturbed. Its not off the beaten path and with the water so clear I had feared others might have noticed the gravel and started digging through it. It wasn't long before I came up with what was enough to make my day - a nice dolphin tooth! As usual I was getting many small shark teeth in every screen and this always keeps me encouraged as I dig for the next nice find. On this day that turned out to be a nice Armadillo Osteoderm. I was satisfied that if I found nothing more than small shark teeth for the rest of the day it was a great day on the river. But, alas, it was not to be. A little later a horse molar came up, then a dolphin periotic, followed by a camelid tooth. After a lunch break and a chance to warm up in the sun I got back to digging and came up with a tapir tooth crown, another horse molar, several turtle and tortoise leg spurs, four large chunks of giant tortoise shell, a small armadillo osteoderm, a large chunk of a limb bone, a cetacean vert, what may be a piece of tusk or horn, a possible astragalus and a couple of unknowns I will be trying to ID. Some photos of the overall finds: And some close ups: Camelid tooth Dolphin periotic- Tapir tooth crown: Cetacean Vert: The possible astragalus - if anyone thinks otherwise or can offer an ID as to species please chime in. The ruler is showing mm. A good and satisfying days work that left me tired, sore and happy I have the chance to do this as often as I like!

My second time out to the Peace River, what a glorious peace of land. The air temp was mid 80s, dew points in the low 60s and water temp was perfect. My wife of 37 years accompanied me this trip, and yep, she found a complete Meg. Not huge, but near perfect. and one photo of the gulf, where we spent 4 fabulous nights last week .

Can anyone help me identifying this jaw, unfortunately the selle can't send me a photo of the chewing surface. I can't understand if it is a boar jaw or a tapir jaw. I'd like to hear your opinion

This was an epic trip. We found at least seven extinct species, including dire wolf!! This was quite honestly my favorite trip ever. Mastodon, giant armadillo, alligator, and so much more. Hope y'all like it! If you liked it, feel free to like and subscribe Best, FL Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbXFFMJ3t2w

An article that talks about fossil remains dated 47mya in the former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt about how ancient horses shrank and how ancient tapirs showed the opposite in that they got bigger. https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/exceptional-fossils-give-window-into-mammalian-evolution-332518 Ring et al. (2020) Divergent mammalian body size in a stable Eocene greenhouse climate. Scientific Reports. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60379-7 (the article is open access)

I have a Vero Tapir foot bone fossil. The fossil is in very good shape with very few cracks, being not terribly old since Vero Tapir's went extinct some 11,000 years ago, (11,000 years seems pretty old to me though!) I am pretty new to fossil hunting, so I was curious whether or not it is necessary to put some kind of preserving agent on it? Are there any advantages or disadvantages either way? I appreciate any help!

Friends of ours had their daughter come to visit for the holidays. She likes to rockhound and collect crystals and pan for gold back in the Seattle area where she lives and was eager to try the experience of fossil hunting in the Peace River. The weather (and river level) was looking good till a few days back when that huge mass of unstable air over the southeastern US unleashed torrents of rain. In fact, we were kidding Kelly that it was her presence here that brought the Seattle weather. She had a red-eye flight into Fort Lauderdale airport a few days back and on the morning of her arrival, the FLL airport received 4.5 inches of rain in an hour--shutting down the airport due to runways that were under water! Her flight was diverted to Miami but the airline she was on does not normally fly to MIA and there were no gates nor attendants to great the flight. They sat on the tarmac for 3.5 hours till they could find someone to unload the plane. Of course, they couldn't manage to unload the luggage at Miami and so the plane flew up to Fort Lauderdale later in the day so that the passengers could finally be reunited with their luggage. Hope there were no cruise passengers on that flight or their holiday vacation was well ruined. The bulk of the rain went north and south of the Peace River drainage basin but it did catch enough to push the river level into movement in the wrong direction. Canoe Outpost (where we rented our canoes) has been measuring the river level in Arcadia by calling the "normal" river level the point at which their floating dock is level with the bottom stair of their fixed dock. They declare fossil hunting season "open" when the level is 12" BELOW this "normal" level. The rain had pushed the level to around 9" ABOVE normal or just under 2 feet higher than I'd have liked it to be. We only had Saturday available as a date to try this and so we did. At worst we figured we'd have a relaxing trip down the river by canoe--in the rain! (Did I forget to mention the weather forecast was for warm temps, near 83F, but with an 80% chance of rain?) We chose a 10:00 a.m. departure over my normal choice of 8:00 a.m. which maximizes the workable time on the river with the canoes due back in before 5:00 p.m. This let us sleep in just a few hours more with a departure of 6:00 a.m. instead of 4:00 a.m. We loaded ourselves and the fossil hunting gear, snacks, and change of clothes into our friend's minivan and were off very nearly on schedule. It was an overcast (but dry) trip across state to Arcadia where we arrived in good time to sign in and catch our bus to the put in. We were pleasantly surprised to find Canoe Outpost to be celebrating their 50th year in operation (and Becky, the owner, there for 35 of those years). The peace sign in much of their signs is both a reference to the Peace River and the summer of love that was 1969. To celebrate, the canoe rentals were half-price and our two canoes for the day came for the price of one. I was quite happy to find that, though the levels were higher than I'd hoped for, the large well known gravel bed just downstream from the put-in at Brownville Park was not too deep to work. The current toward the center of the river was ripping and made it tricky to stand up and keep sand/gravel on your shovel as you raised it from the bottom to the sifter. One side of the river was protected somewhat by some trees in the water just upstream and was easily workable. The waist-deep water was comfortably cool (78F) and high enough not to have to bend over much but not too high to work effectively. There were a few other canoes launched with our group but they rolled past us when we stopped to start fossil hunting. We spotted a few additional canoes pass us from the 11:00 a.m. put-in but otherwise (mostly) had the river to ourselves. A large group (tour?) of 9 jet skis came flying up the river while we were taking a lunch break. They slowed just a bit but the wakes definitely caused a stir as the combined waves smacked our canoes pulled up along shore. We were to encounter them again on their return trip downstream a few hours later. This time we were paddling and had to move to the side of the river and point the bow of the canoes into the huge waves to keep from capsizing. Jet skis and canoes simply do not mix well. At least nobody flipped over. It remained a cloudy day with the sun only making a few brief appearances to cast some color on our sifting screens filled with black gravel. We got sprinkled and full-on poured upon several times throughout the day but Tammy even remarked that the warm air temps and a windbreaker jacket actually made the rainy canoe paddling rather pleasant. The warm temps had a number of gators (big and small) out trying to sun themselves on the banks. In total we spotted an even dozen of them in the first half of the trip back to Arcadia. There are fewer good haul-up spots and the fading light toward late afternoon usually means we see few if any gators on the last half of the paddle back downstream. It was interesting seeing the new tree falls along the banks and the other changes to the topography of the river after the summer's floods. It appears that someone's boat had come loose and found itself in a rather non-seaworthy state among the willow trees along one bank. A good example of the power of the river in flood stage! We tried to get into a deeper spot on the river that for some unknown reason is chocked full of dugong rib bones. It has larger chunky gravel and so I like to look there for the promise of larger fossils (like meg teeth). I like to take newbies to the river to this site as they can then collect multiple "paleo paperweights" as I call them and maybe come away with a meg tooth (or at least a decent fragment). We pulled to canoes to the bank at this spot and I got out to check it for depth. The bottom usually slopes down from a sticky/slipper/stinky muddy bank into a deeper channel a few meters from shore before becoming more shallow rising up onto a bit of a sand bank. I walked (slid) out into deeper water and got to neck level without it ever getting shallower and so (as I feared) this site was simply impossible at this river level. We paddled on to a final spot I like to stop at which has only fine pea gravel but often provides a copious number of smaller dime size shark teeth. I enjoy taking groups with kids there as we have a competition to see how many shark teeth per screen we can find. I believe the record still stands at 26. This site is also quite shallow (even dry sand bars when the river is good and low) and so I knew we'd have no problems there--it was my ace in the hole in case the other locations were all not accessible. In addition to many nice tiny teeth it also delivered some surprises.

Since the weather is (finally) behaving and the Peace River water level has now stabilized at a depth where South Florida fossil hunters can get in and get their hunt on, Tammy and I found a free day in our busy schedule and planned a day trip to Arcadia to try our luck on the Peace River again. If we do not drive over and spend the night in a local hotel, hunting on the Peace River involves an early morning wake-up call at the painfully early hour of 3:00 AM. We're all packed up and leaving the house at just around 4:00 AM with a long quiet drive through mostly empty highways--up the Florida Turnpike to the aptly named Beeline Hwy which makes a beeline straight northwest for the town of Okeechobee at the northern tip of Lake Okeechobee (the large lake that looks like it was hole punched out of the map of Florida). A stop for something approximating breakfast at the 24-hour Micky D's in Okeechobee (bring a jacket if you go because the AC is set for 60F ) and then it's a straight show west on State Road 70 into Arcadia. When we arrive we make a quick stop for a bag of ice for our cooler and a few snacks for the day. Then we roll into Canoe Outpost to fill out our paperwork and wait for the bus to take us to the put-in location. As we had a free day to make this trip on a Tuesday, Canoe Outpost is far from busy--in fact we are the only ones there save two employees who had to come in early to tend to our canoe rental needs. Today's hunting area of choice is on the lower half of the normal full-day rental. Usually, we put in at Brownville Park some 8.5 miles upstream of the Canoe Outpost dock and we stop at various locations along the way. We wanted to focus on some spots downstream from their half-day put-in location at the primitive campground area that is owned by Canoe Outpost (called Oak Hill). We've wanted to get dropped off here on some weekends when we only wanted to hunt along the lower 4 miles of the river above Arcadia but usually they have others going to Brownville on the 8:00 AM run and we just end up getting put-in there. We spend the first hour paddling the 4.5 miles down to the half-day put-in. This time we were lucky--nobody else was signed-up to go out at 8:00 AM so they were accommodating enough to put us in at the halfway point and save us an hour of paddling. We enjoy the peaceful paddling down the river looking for birds and spotting gators along the banks but the thought of saving an hour of paddle time was too good to pass up--more time for sifting. We made it down to the spot where we had found some nice armadillo bits two weeks before--a tooth and an astragalus from Holmesina septentrionalis a two meter beastie clocking in at around 250 kg. According to Dr. Hulbert specimens from this species are pretty rare in South Florida and the astragalus that we found last trip is earmarked for the FLMNH next time we are in Gainesville as the museum does not have any specimens of this bone from this species in its collection. We were hoping to possibly find some additional Holmesina bits though that was a long shot at best. We poked around the site chasing down areas with nice chunky gravel hoping to find some nice items and though we struck out extending our Holmesina finds we did come across a few nice items. On only the first handful of screens, a familiar triangular shape appeared in the sifting screen. Though the root was a bit dinged, this meg tooth that topped out at just about 3 inches is just shy of the 3.25 inch size that most teeth seem to max out at in the Peace River. A little while later a beautifully shaped smaller meg (just under 2 inches) turned up in the sifting screen. Here are some in situ (well, in sifter anyway) images of those teeth at the moment they revealed themselves. A little while later (after many smaller shark teeth and broken megs--fraglodons) we turned up one of the larger Carcharhinus teeth I've seen come from the Peace River. It was a nice surprise to see such a large example of a requiem shark tooth. No more interesting shark teeth turned up though we did find quite a number of the normal nickel and dime (size) teeth which will end up in an ever growing jar of teeth on display in the family room. Two other novelties helped to make the day a successful hunt in the record books. I turned up a tiny unerupted tooth that I believe to be tapir peccary though I've never seen one with six cusps (two small ones off one side). EDIT: Fixed ID, see below. As with many of these teeth the hollow nature of the tooth and fragile roots mean that usually only the enamel crown are recovered--at least this pretty little thing is solidly in one piece. The other tooth is a bit of a mystery. I'm sure @Harry Pristis will likely recognize this as it looks reasonably distinctive. The tooth looks like it has a complete crown (no parts missing) but it only has a trace of the roots left. Looking at the photos I can see that there are cracks forming on this tooth and it looks like it is ready to disarticulate into a puzzle of pieces. I think I'll be attempting to consolidate this item a bit with some B72. There is less than a month to go before the official start of rainy/hurricane season in June. Hoping to find some time in my schedule to make it back out to the river a few more times. It's been an extremely shortened season this year but the few finds we have been able to make have been enjoyable. Cheers. -Ken

Hello, I found this tooth today in a creek here in Austin, TX. Thanks in advance