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  1. citronkitten

    dolphin vertebra b.jpg

    From the album: Peace River, Florida 26/12/23

    As identified by guide
  2. Sonickmonx

    Dolphin Bulla

    From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds

    My nicest bulla. Found in the Chandler Bridge.
  3. Shellseeker

    A day in the Sunshine

    I went fossil hunting yesterday. It is an activity that brings a smile and renews my soul. Sometimes I like the solitude of hunting alone ( my 1st 18 months I only hunted alone), but this day I was blessed with good friends and I could tell stories, share their cut up fruit and trail mix, and marvel on what we were finding. These are mostly my treasures.. None of us found large quantities, I had less than 50 fossils in my collection bag... but what we did find was unique and/or had some quality aspects... A tiger , 32 mm across the root. A Dusky or Bull, never sure which A fishjaw and a Tree root.... and below, a rare find for me ... note it tried to break,. it will not get the chance again A dolphin tooth found late... not one that I could name. Friends also found a Dolphin tooth earlier, Slightly larger. When this rolled into my sieve, I knew it was familiar, I rolled it over and over, but I was not expecting it , could not ID. My friends did. Menippe was a Genus of Stone crabs back in the Florida Pliocene. I wonder if this was a late arrival. I liked the quality of the fossils... look at the details of this crab claw... I was picking up a bunch of (broken) bones that I only slightly recognize with the intention of posting some of them but maybe in future posts. I do have a femur that I am curious about... I always search TFF for helpful threads: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/102805-peace-river-femur/ It has this comparison photo.... For comparisons, I possess a SaberCat femur at 13 inches if complete. Here's the key: 1-Horse femur, 2-Sabertooth Cat femur, 3-Human Adult Female Femur, 4-Komodo Femur, 5-Harpy Eagle Femur, 6-Kiwi Femur, 7-Platypus Femur, 8-Spider Monkey Femur, 9-Rhesus Macaque Femur, 10-Vervet femur, 11-Goliath Frog Femur, 12-Flying Lemur Femur. The bone seems not sufficiently robust for tapir, horse, llama, cow,, so maybe deer, coyote, bobcat.... Here is a mule deer for comparison. I think total length of Mule deer femur would be 11-12 inches. Any suggestions will be followed... Thanks for reading...
  4. Yesterday I found a Y-shaped bone fragment on the beach along the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, USA (Miocene epoch, Calvert fm.). It is approximately 6.7 centimeters long, 3.1 centimeters wide at the forked end, and 1 centimeter wide at the narrow end. I have an inclination that it could be a fragment of a dolphin jaw where the lower mandibles fuse together but would like some other opinions for confirmation or a better ID. Ventral view (presumably) Dorsal view (presumably) - this side is fractured, exposing the concave interior of the bone Right lateral view (presumably) I found some photos of a living species, Pontoporia blainvillei, that is endemic to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina and bears a strong resemblance to my fossil. For reference, here is a high quality photo of Pontoporia blainvillei skull Holding my fossil in front of the photo suggests a good match: So does pontoporiid dolphin jaw seem like the correct ID? Is there any way to identify it further? Thanks in advance and my apologies if I left anything out - this is my first ID post. I'll be happy to provide more info/pictures if needed.
  5. Shellseeker

    Too deep, too cold

    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?
  6. csrlewis93

    Dolphin tooth in Myrtle Beach, SC

    So I found this and it looks like a dolphin tooth, but it's my first time finding one so I was just looking for some confirmation and/or any more information that could be provided. This was found at the beach in Myrtle Beach, SC. In the past I've found a horse tooth, deer tooth, alligator tooth and am glad to be able to add another (non-shark) tooth to my collection of finds!
  7. Had another early morning today, first time out since the time change so getting in the water for sunrise was a little difficult. None the less I launched the kayak around 6am and watched a beautiful sunrise on the water, then got to the beach to begin searching. Not to long after getting to the beach I found a great hastalis measuring 2.02” (my second biggest) and a few steps away found a nice little cow shark tooth! It slowed down from there finding a large fish vert (my largest) with the rest of my finds being a little further apart. Talked to a fellow fossil hunter on the beach who found a beautiful megalodon around 2.5” with great color, I was a bit jealous but it’s always nice to see other peoples finds. On the walk back to the kayak I found a nice little micro meg and some dolphin teeth to wrap the trip up. Another great day on the bay, I’ll be back soon!
  8. davidvw

    Three tiny beauties

    "Wie het kleine niet eert, is het grote niet weerd!" goes the Dutch saying (who does not appreciate the small, isn't worthy of the big). Three small fossils, any help with the ID's? The brown one looks like a bulla to me, from a dolphin maybe? No idea about the other two. All found on the Dutch coast, on the same location. Mammal bones on this location are from the pleistocene and holocene, shark teeth and bones from fish and sea mammals (dolphins and whales mostly) are from the eocene-pliocene.
  9. I’m a little late to getting around to posting this but it’s been a hectic week so far at work. I kayaked back out along the Calvert Cliffs last weekend and the weather was absolutely beautiful, getting close to if not over 80 degrees for the last weekend of October. I got on the water early to watch the sun rise and then started hunting. The nice weather definitely brought some more hunters out, with other kayakers, boaters, and jet skiers coming to the beach soon after landing. As expected it was a little slow but I still managed a nice little megalodon measuring 1.46” and a nice hastalis measuring 1.43”. As I was slowly checking out the shell line on the way back I found two micro megs, and a few dolphin teeth to finish the day off. All in all a great trip, love finding teeth and kayaking along the cliffs on a calm morning is just peaceful. See y’all next time!
  10. Shellseeker

    Finds yesterday, Oct 26th

    Went out Hunting both Wednesday and Thursday. Very unusual, I usually need recuperation time, but it seems the extra exercise helped. So what is happening is that we are starting to Hunt the Peace River again because the water depth has dropped. We are returning to places we have not been in Months to "test" the depth. On Thursday we picked one of those After sorting out small shark teeth , these were my best finds of the day. I especially appreciate the green marble. Usually, I was digging in water just above my waist but lots of deeper holes all around me.. This was limiting how deep I could dig, even when I did find gravel. In my first sieve of the day up popped the premolar in lower right. Because of the size, I immediately thought it was deer. But I am frequently wrong, more so than I would like. It has an APL of 14 mm. and 3 roots.. I looked at deer first. I thought this would be premolar 1. But it was not deer. and that is exciting. I LIKE finding fossils I can not identify initially. After searching TFF and the internet for a while, I came upon one of @Harry Pristis great pictures. It is amazing that such a big animal has such a small tooth. This is a nice find , especially at the size. Next up a small Mako and a Dolphin... A layer of the Dolphin enamel has been stripped from one side. But the rugose nature of the remaining side enamel would seem to confirm Dolphin. I do not have many dolphin teeth like this and I am pleased to get this one. Then a small bone that has some unusual features and I will try to Identify. This is all about 1) I like to identify my finds so that I will recognize them the next time I see one. This bone might be a Calcaneum, but I am unsure. Finally , a large incisor... I was initially thinking Llama, but there are some features that do not quite match, so I went looking at Horse, Bison, Cow... and found little to change my initial opinion... The shape of the tip seems to be Llama ( Hemiauchenia macrocephala) but I have not seem similar curving folds of the lingual edge, and the rest of the incisor seems more similar to Equus than to Llama. but for the moment , I'll stick with Hemiauchenia. These are good finds, I had very successful day. It was nice to be in the Peace River again. It took me a while to prepare this post. Likely will get to describing Wednesday finds tomorrow. All comments welcome and appreciated.
  11. Shellseeker

    Horses and Whales

    Went out Hunting both Wednesday and Thursday. Already posted Thursday finds. This was a trip back to my happy place, not huntable during the summer rains. To me this hunting trip challenges the conventional wisdom about going home again. Although I have sorted out most broken shark teeth, this is a fair representation of types of teeth 60% Bull or Dusky, 25% Tiger cuvier, 10 % Lemons. There are lots of broken bones, I collected some that I think I might want to identify. There is a lot of whale jaw... here is an example with some bite marks. I make an assumption that these are shark bites, but possibly someone with more knowledge can confirm. Land predators might leave different scars. I used to not recognize these but then Bobby identified them for me in a thread years ago ... and they are rare enough so I always keep them... Staying in the marine mammal finds, an overly worn tooth Some infrequent finds here... There are a couple of Alligator teeth and a nice scute in the photo, but Crocodile is rare... Likely a Glyptodont edge osteoderm Not sure what this one of a kind is... Reminds me of one of Harry's shrimp burrows in miniature. 2 Complete bones. The longer , thinner one is a Proximal Phalanx from Hemiauchenia gracilis, a Blancan fauna that helped me age this location years ago. Below is a research paper photo of 3 Proximal Phalanx of H. gracilis. The top 2 was within the range of 80-85 mm in length. and the caption that the muscle attachments on the proximal end resemble a "W".... The 2nd bone is an Equus Proximal Phalanx.. I found 6 Horse teeth... 4 Equus and 2 Tridactly , one lower , one upper.. The lower I recognize.. it is Nannippus peninsulatus, one of the smallest and most recent Florida Tridactyl Horse that existed in the late Pliocene (Florida Blancan Land mammal age) The other small horse tooth is a badly damaged upper. It does seems to be Nannippus, and that is why I'll try to Identify it . @fossillarry Measurements of the find are APL 11 mm, TRW 10 mm, Crown Height 30 mm. Since this find is missing about 20 % of the tooth, the APL is more likely 13-14 mm Here is an Upper Nannippus Molar to compare APL 11 x 15 x 49 mm. Enjoy, As always suggestions and comments are always appreciated.
  12. Hey everyone - I found a curious fossil on Atlantic Beach, NC the other day - very clearly a bone of some type, but I was unsure what type it may be. We don't find many fossils on this beach so I was particularly puzzled. I decided to lean on some local expert knowledge, so I went over to Bonehenge Whale Center in Beaufort to get their opinion. They said, while not experts in fossils, that they're immediate guess was a fragment of an ocular bone in a pilot whale or dolphin. Seems to be a possibilty (see the dolphin skull photos attached), but he reiterated that he was unsure. So, I'd love to see if anyone here had another opinion? Or if you agree that it is an ocular fragment, what type of whale/dolphin it may have come from and possibly a date range? I know there's not too much to work with, but any guesses are much appreciated! Thank you so much!
  13. For my first trip out to Calvert Cliffs for the “Season”, I took my girlfriend out to kayak along the cliffs for her first ever fossil hunting trip in the area. She had gone with me to Douglas Point once before and had good luck, so she was excited to go and see the Calvert Cliffs. We launched around sunrise and did a little leisure kayaking before making our way to the beach, water was a little rough but it was a nice morning. Hunting started slow with only a few small teeth being found, but things started to pick up after I had found two really nice size Hemis the largest being 1.47” and a nice little dolphin tooth. Then while I was searching the waterline I hear her shriek behind me and turn to see her holding her first Megalodon (or chub)! It was sitting right on top of the sand not but a few inches from the base of the cliffs. It measured 2.03” and is in great condition and I couldn’t be more happy for (jealous of) her! Needless to say she is hooked. Being my first trip out since March this gets my hopes up for a great season and I’m looking forward to going out some more over the next few months!
  14. Father-in-law recently gave me this fossil he found when he was a kid near the Calvert cliffs formation in MD. He said at one point he was told it was a whale or dolphin vertebra fossil, any more information on it would be greatly appreciated if anyone on here has any. Thanks!
  15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/08/27/fossil-dolphin-calvert-cliffs-maryland/
  16. I just received this Odontocete/Dolphin tooth from Gainesville, Florida and I'm having a hard time trying to identify it, no matter how much I search the internet... It meadures 1.92" at it's longest point and hopefully the experts here, @Boesse can shed some light on this very unique and beautiful tooth.
  17. Here is another set of beach finds I need help pinpointing. The small round one is a shark vertebra I think. The larger black one is a vertebra of some kind but I have no idea what from, I know it is highly weathered. These were both found on the beach in North Carolina, near the Fort Macon area. The one with all the holes I am guessing is a fragment of a dolphin jawbone, but If I am way off here or if you can pinpoint it any further let me know! This piece came from a sample of a tailings pile from the Aurora phosphate mine in NC. Thanks again!
  18. Took a trip down to the Calvert Cliffs with the Buffalo Geological Society last weekend for some fossil hunting. It was my first time ever hunting at this location and I would call it a success. I can see why this location is such a popular spot, great beaches along the Chesapeake and beautiful weather made this one of the most scenic fossil hunting locations I've ever been at. The first day was Flag Ponds, which is where most people had better luck finding good sized shark teeth during low tide conditions. I found a small fragment of a Meg here, which was exciting. The second day was Matoaka Cabins, which was where much better invertebrate shells could be found. I took a walk a bit past a recent cliff failure and ended up having a lot of success finding teeth during high tide by churning up the sand and letting the waves wash it out. After I got a system down in the afternoon, this method yielded me a tooth every 5 to 10 minutes. I also filled a 3gal bucket with gravel deposits from the low tide to bring home and sift, I would not do this again as I only found a few teeth from this bucket. Looking forward to the next time I can get back. Total finds. Everything above the coral is from Matoaka, everything below the coral is from Flag Ponds Dolphin ear bone, probably my favorite find of the trip. Awesome preservation from what I have seen Some of the best teeth Some of the better ray fossils Crab claws Bones
  19. Shellseeker

    Very small and rare finds

    I posted a thread discussing finding barnacles and seashells in the Peace River on Monday. I did have a few other finds and decided to post these separately... 1st -- a very small tooth that looks like deer but I do not think it is, and if it is not deer and in the Peace river it is very rare. Back in February, @Harry Pristis identified another small tooth I had found that was from a Pliocene deer, Eocolieus gentryorum... and it looks very similar, just a little smaller, but I need one more photo, I do not think this is Deer, I think it is Llama, and the only llama I can think of at this size is Hemiauchenia gracilis... Let's see what Harry says... 2nd up is a pretty small Dolphin tooth... I was digging in pea gravel,, small gravel generally leads to small fossils. A marine mammal periotic. Usually these are 30 mm, not 20 . I will be curious what @Boesse identifies it as.... When not hunting, I have been working most of the days, cleaning up and cleaning out my collection... NOT ENOUGH ROOM... While sorting the ones to keep, I found this in a ziplok bag from years ago.. It is about the same size and looks a little similar but did not come from the Peace River.. curious that I should come across these two 24 hours apart...
  20. Shellseeker

    Some finds (2)

    Went Hunting Tuesday, Opened a thread "Some finds" to discuss some of the more interesting finds to me. I had some additional finds and would like help in identifying them. They are harder than the initial set. Sorted out small shark teeth, ray teeth, etc... There are a couple of distressed Tridactyl horse teeth on the right, a shark vert so fragile it broke on discovery and also again after... First is a bone. When I saw it , I thought it was a Rhino metatarsal. It is not, but I have never seen this bone previously and that is pretty rare. That "slot" on the bone in the last photo is natural. The bone density and porosity reminds me of marine mammal... @Boesse The 2nd find is a dolphin tooth.... I found a similar small dolphin tooth at this location last June and trying to confirm (or not) that this is likely the same species. Third is a possible claw, I am wondering Armadillo, and we can always consider raptor. Bottom: Side: 4th, How about these small 13 mm rostral teeth? Are they Pristis .sp? They seem different from what I have normally found in the Peace River. Thanks for any and all comments, and responses. Jack
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