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Hi there! My girlfriend and I finally managed to get to the fossil spot here in Cape Town - South Africa (a spot where fossilized shark teeth and whale bone wash up onto the beach) and we are both hoping that what we have found is actually fossilized bone! If any of you could confirm what this is I would be extremely grateful!
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Ive been slowly working on our house these last 3 months or so. Yesterday the misses and I went out to the big garage to find certain things to do some white washing. I was looking around seriously and the misses was just looking around. Here is what she ran into! Not a clue as to why these were with all the paint stuff but Id say it was a purty good find. Not sure what I'm going to do with them, they all need some clean up, prep, sandblasting and or repair. I remember buying these sometime in the 1990's. Must have somehow put them with all the paint stuff when we moved to Montana. If my wife who doesn't care about fossils can find something like this in my garage, I'm wondering if I should start selling fossil hunting tickets? RB
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Hi guys, I found this bone cluster on the shore of the Black Sea, near the city of Balchik, Bulgaria. From the region there have been findings of Miocene cetaceans, seals and some ground megafauna. The more circular bone somewhat reminds me of an ear bone but comparing it with pictures of fossil dolphin ear bones I can't say if it really is one. So my question is if it is an ear bone and if it is, does that mean that´s a part of a skull? Any help on the identification of the fossil will be very much appreciated! Best regards!
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This is a fossil found near many sharks teeth in the Northern Neck of Virginia. It was found on the side of a cliff in Westmoreland County VA. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Last couple of days, I have been searching the internet, for Hipparion horse teeth, Beaver Molars, and small whale teeth driven by TFF threads to answer questions in my mind or help to identify a fossil. I was doing a google search for "Whale tooth Florida jaw" and triggered this fossil, supposedly found in the Miocene of South Carolina !!!! That is close to Florida so we might have the same fossil whales here !!! and @Boesse might help me to identify it. The final aspect is that it was not all that pricey, and since I only have 2 pieces of toothed whale jaw in my collection, snapped it up.
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Hi! For my collection Im looking nice vertebrae, different sizes for comparison.... from whale, sharks..... also looking some nice megalodon with different colors, size... Thanks! In return I offer european fossils.
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Got back to the Peace River yesterday for what turned out to be a beautiful day with a variety of finds and new friends. On arrival at the river a little before 8 am the temperature was a balmy 48*F. The temperature was projected to rise into the mid 70's but I started out the day in my wetsuit and dive boots with hoodie overall to combat the early morning chill. I usually hunt north of Payne Creek State Park but decided to go south today where Megalodon teeth are more easily found. I haven't targeted the big shark teeth since last spring. I returned to the area where I found my first 3" whole Meg last June and saw some evidence that others had been searching in the area. The water was very clear and shallow and it was easy to pick out a spot to start digging. There is a lot of gravel in this area and it seems to produce good finds across the width of the river. In just the second load in the sifter I came up with an almost whole 3" meg. The good finds continued for an hour or more with many small shark teeth, more partial megs, a nice whole glyptodont osteoderm and a nice sized cetacean vert. I then took a break from digging and walked around in the shallow water for a bit which resulted in my spotting a nice 2.25" meg just lying on the river bottom waiting to be picked up. Just prior to the walk around a couple in two kayaks passed heading south. I noticed they had sifters on board and we just exchanged hellos as they passed. The temperature was warming up a bit and I decided to take a break, empty out my dive boots and warm my feet up. As I was about to return to digging the couple that had passed returned heading north. The gentleman asked if I minded if they beached their kayaks alongside mine and I welcomed them to do so. It took only a few minutes to discover that they were the ones who had been working the area most recently and that I had taken over digging in one of their spots. It also turned out that the gentleman is a member of the Forum under the name @JMT2015. So, not only was I finding new fossils but also getting to meet new TFF friends. We spent the rest of the day working the area and I am glad to say they also found Megs and other interesting specimens. I concentrated on the same hole, going deeper and widening it with the result of several nice finds during the afternoon. A partial whale ear bone, 2 dolphin ear bones, a 2.75" Mako, a pice of juvenile Mastodon tooth, partial dolphin tooth, Burr fish mouth plate, piece of gator(?) jaw, turtle leg spurs, turtle scute and two unknowns - one possibly another ear bone and one a tooth. Photos of some of the days finds follow: The Cetacean Vert: The Megs - The Juvenile Mastodon tooth piece - The ear bones - Turtle spurs and scute, Burr fish mouth plate, jaw piece and partial dolphin tooth - The Mako - All in all a very good day on the river - looking forward to my next visit!
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Anybody know what kind of whale these teeth belong to? Found them at a random flea market?
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Hey all, Thought I would share this blog post that has a comprehensive review of all papers in marine mammal paleontology published in 2020. Enjoy! https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2020/12/2020-in-review-advances-in-marine.html
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Back from exile: archaeocete whale discovery in South Carolina
Boesse posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hey all! Between an ill-timed conference, election month, the pandemic, online teaching, and a few other issues, I was way too stressed out and busy to be on here regularly since October. Also, in mid November we began digging up a small basilosaurid whale in Harleyville, SC - very likely to be the most completely known specimen of the dwarf basilosaurid Chrysocetus, and perhaps the most important basilosaurid discovery in North America of my lifetime. I did manage to write a blog post about our fieldwork, so as an apology for being AWOL and only getting back to identifying cetacean stuff a few months later, I offer this writeup as penance! It feels good to be back in the saddle again. Cheers, Bobby
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I went hunting today in my favorite place -- the Peace River. The day was gorgeous, Sunshine, 70s and I had a 5 mm wetsuit. The river is down (quickly 2-3 feet). Someone upstream closed the locks of a lake or something similar this last week. I was in an area that I had not hunted in years, but I recalled some of the landscape and tried a few of my old spots. Pretty good , but not great. Some nice Hemis, but small shark teeth were few. Found a horse ear bone, a small armadillo scute, a very small canine, but they came slowly, so I move trying lots of different locations. The last one gave me some curious finds and this was the most unusual. I kept on turning it over and over, wondering what it was.... rock, crystal?, or some sort of calcification like the Calcite clams from Rucks Pit. What happened to this odd fossil? So the 1st 4 photos kept me confused, but an old friend was exposed on photo #5. At 2.25 inches, the pattern on the shiny part is definitive. Enjoy.
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Hi, Can someone please help me with an ID on the following fossil and how old it may be? Whale tooth (Florida) 80mm long x 25mm wide
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My son lives in Texas. In normal years, I see him for Holidays, sports events, summer vacation. Not normal this year. I had not seen him for 14 months. He has been visiting his Mom on Florida's Atlantic coast the last 3 weeks. On Thursday, he drove to the Peace River and we went hunting in relatively deep water. I found more of the good stuff. Short Thursday night and back to hunting a different location Friday. This day , he had the lucky charm and picked up 4 !! whale teeth in 45 minutes. I could not have been more pleased. It was a grand day, cool but the sun shining. We were recalling other good times, laughing over the same old jokes from the past. This is a Christmas memory that will last. I realize how fortunate I am. Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year to all my TFF friends. Jack The Whale teeth. The 1st 3 are likely Kogiopsis Floridanus. The 4th is a tooth similar to Aulophyseter morricei (STH and Maryland), but this small tooth is not identified from Florida in any of the scientific papers I have seen. b
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Hi guys, I found this bone on the Bulgarian shore of the Black sea, near Balchik. In the region there have been found the remains of cetotherium sp., dolphins, seals, flamingos and others. I am wondering though what exact bone it is and of course of what. I thought that it may be a part of a fin or something like that, but I failed to find a photo of a bone like this. Any help for the identification will be very much appreciated! And happy soon to be new year!!
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This is a Whale ear bone found in Antwerp. It's from the Miocene epoch. I don't know what species is. Can you write your opinion, please? Thank you.
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Hi everyone, A friend found this bone with what looks like a shark tooth embedded into it while he was hunting in Bakersfield near Shark Tooth Hill. Does it look like an embedded shark tooth? and what type of shark do you think it could be from? He found several Hastalis and Planus teeth in the same layer. I really appreciate all the help the community has provided me. I learn something new every time. Thanks!
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Chances to get out hunting have disappeared. A lot of rain with Hurricane Theta and then some tropical storms. There is a lot of activity late in the season which means higher faster water in rivers and creeks. So I look back on recent curiosities. Hunting 10 days ago, I pick up a curious rock that seemed to have texture, broken at one end. It was white inside. At a distance of 10 feet and 2 hours digging, I found the smaller end. That might be a shovel mark, and for a second I thought I might have broken it, but 10 feet apart, no way. I really do not like breaking fossils. . Now it looks like a water worn whale bulla with a rock boring mollusk hole at one end. But what about that white inside? What is it? How did it form? A couple of more photos... So, we might say that the white was sand (silica) that filled the bulla, and underwent a "transformation". Note that in the last photo , the white seems to merge with the fossilized bone... Curiouser and curiouser... I certainly look for insight from those who have seen this previously.
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I am wanting to put together a complete spine of a whale. I have found many vertebrae, but unable to find a diagram of a spine. I'm starting at point A so anything could help. Even different species of whale. I'm have collected most of them from Sarasota County, Florida. Any links or suggestions would be great Thank you! Brandon
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Found this on a beach with some shark teeth and other bone fragments. Most of the bone around there is very worn and tumbled, making it impossible to ID. This piece however has some interesting features and could possibly be identifiable. I'm thinking its a piece of the top end of a whale rib? Anybody recognise this as something else, large terrestrial mammal maybe? Thanks
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Hi All, I could use some help identifying what looks to be a tooth? I found it on Wrightsville Beach, NC. Is it a tooth? If so, what kind? Porpoise? Whale? I have been searching with no luck so I thought I would ask the kind people on this forum. Thanks, J
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I have a dozen teeth from Aurora, North Carolina that I believe to be from the toothed whale Squalodon. Instead of uploading photos of that many, I'm uploading a few that are representative of the dozen and detailed photographs of three of these. For context, the first tooth here is 2.5" long and 1" wide at its thickest.
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I have here a 3" piece of bone, found in Calvert Cliffs, Maryland. I'm not well-versed enough with these to narrow it down further from marine mammal, and am hoping that these photographs contain some identifying features that may be useful to one more familiar with these. Can it be narrowed down any further?
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Dear Fossil Forum Members, My friend recently found this bone-looking piece on the beach near the St Marys formation at Calvert Cliffs. We have heard that many of the bones washing up are fragments of whale or dolphin bones. Since this piece is so big, we are thinking its some sort of whale bone. Could anyone please help verify this? Sorry there are no proper forms of measurement, for reference the piece is roughy 4.5in (11.5cm) wide and 6.5in (17cm) long. Here are some photos:
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My hunting days, during South Florida's rainy season are few and far between. I wait for and really appreciate the opportunities that come my way. I was out with a friend in the sunshine today. We were finding lots of small teeth, plus sand tigers, upper/lower hemis, a few small Makos, and I even picked up a Meg. There also were a number of sting ray teeth, denticles and broken spines. Then , in the 2nd last sieve of the day, I found one of my favorites -- a whale tooth, but not just any whale. I have found a number of Kogiopsis .sp teeth and somewhat fewer Scaldicetus teeth, both of which are know to exist in Florida. This one is neither Kogiopsis or Scaldicetus... Very odd. Is that enamel on the outside with flaking horizontal bands tradition or cementum? A little bit of a "bulb" at the root end, and one of the oddest root terminations I have ever seen on something I think to be whale. Last year I was fortunate to be "gifted" a number of Aulophyseter morrice teeth from a friend who hunts Shark Tooth Hill. I added a photo of this newly found tooth, just to indicate that there are other whales with teeth this size, even though they do not match other characteristics. I had a fantastic day. I found a high quality whale tooth that very likely can not be identified. and finding one gives me hope that I will find more like it.I decided to publish photos just in case others have found similar teeth... Jack
