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I found this on the Gulf Coast at Orange Beach AL after a storm. A few minutes later my daughter found a similar one and the same spot. It doesn’t really look like any shark tooth fossils. Any ideas?
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Hi, I hope someone can help me identify this tooth. I’m sorry for the less-than-stellar resolution. Jon
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Hello all. I've tried and tried to get the ID on this on my own and just don't have the experience. I dug this out of a gravel layer in the Peace River in Hardee County, Florida two weeks ago (early January, 2023). Some of the contours seem like an astragalus (horse, camel, ...) but the more museum photos I see the less sure I am. Thanks in advance for any information you are willing to share. The pics are a little overexposed (intentionally) to show the shape, so the color appears lighter in the pics than in reality. Thanks!
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Help with id once again. Found another oddity (for me anyway). Appears to show some symmetry although somewhat worn. Thanks in advance.
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Anybody have any idea of the genus or species?
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From the album: BONES
© ©Harry Pristis 2015
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Found near Melbourne, Florida. Does anybody know the Genus or Species of this Shell?
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Not quite sure what to make of this. Doesn’t look like anything I’m familiar with. Any help greatly appreciated. Found on Caspersen Beach, Florida.
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From the album: BONES
This is a cervical (neck) vertebra - a C3 or C4 - from a Pleistocene camelid from Gilchrist County, Florida. The species name is uncertain, but lamine (llamas) camels were the dominant species in the Florida Pleistocene. More images at: http://www.thefossil...be/#entry599855© -Harry Pristis 2015
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Head down to Ocala to volunteer for UF at Montbrook! Would love to be able to hunt after work !
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Another beach fossil find. I’m not to sure but thought it might be a worn hoof core. Maybe camelid? I defer to the forum experts. As usual any help is greatly appreciated.
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I found this on a recent trip to the Peace River here in Florida. I'm trying desperately to identify it. Is this a piece of petrified wood? I haven't read anywhere online that petrified wood has been found anywhere in Florida so I'm kinda stumped.
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Hi, I was wondering if you could identify this for me and if it’s a fossil? found on the Peace River.
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Hello, I have two items I will be attaching photos of, what I believe are teeth. ( uneducated Guess) It only let me upload 2 pictures. I’ll try to pu the others in the comments maybe?
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I don't know much about whale fossils . . . Can I get some help? This appears to be an auditory bulla which seems unlike the larger specimens from baleen whales. I think it may be a damaged bulla from Pomatodelphis. Any thoughts? In the one view, I've marked with a yellow ''x" two pholadid clam borings so that they don't distract. That same view seems to show an area of shear which represents a missing process.
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By the title your probably skeptical about me actually finding a fossil in my backyard of course I didn't actually find a real fossil in my backyard as that would be quite fictional. I thought I would say that before beginning the fossil ID help... Because in reality I found 2 fossils in my backyard not one!!! In the lot beside my house is dense forest I live in Florida with very invertebrate rich soil in fact almost all soil in my area (suburbs near Indian river) contains hundreds of small shells Pleistocene to recent. However last year when I was looking for modern animal bones I was very surprised to see a white shard sticking up from the ground I tried the porous test with my finger but it was not positive so I concluded it was most likely not bone as most Pleistocene epoch fossils are much more reactive to the test than older fossils and since in my area there are only Pleistocene to recent fossils I assumed it was an invertebrate so I started to excavate the area. To my surprise I found a very large conch-like shell I actually had to cut the roots of a nearby tree as the roots were going through the shell. I later came back and found yet another specimen. It's quite the story to find literal fossils in your backyard but anyways here are the two specimens i'm curious to see your opinion on them please feel free to ask for different pictures and or questions. Thanks in advance, -RJD Yellow>First Specimen Orange>Second Specimen Blue>Modern Invertebrate IF YOU ARE TRYING TO ANSWER ID USE COLOR CODES PLEASE AND THANK YOU,
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From the album: BONES
A lamine (llamas) camelid fibula from the Bone Valley gravels, Peace River, Hardee County, Florida.© Harry Pristis 2015
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Was wondering if someone could help me correctly identify this fossil. This was found on a beach in Destin, FL this summer and appears to be maybe an eel or serpent like creature, it measures ~2 5/8" long and ~1" wide and tried to picture best I could. Any help would be appreciated and can send more pictures but could only post one due to size constraints. Thank you very much for your time!
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Found yesterday. All I know is it's from a mammal. 2 cm wide x almost 2 cm tall
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
This one is the smallest dugong tooth in my drawer; most are substantially larger. Manatee teeth are not rare among Florida fossils. Dugong teeth are not common. (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2015
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
This is an eagle ray toothplate from the Suwannee River. Most often, these toothplates are disarticulated into single teeth. Note the wear on the occlusal surface, probably from crushing hard-shelled food items. Family MYLIOBATIDAE Subfamily MYLIOBATINAE Myliobatis sp. Late Oligocene Suwannee Limestone Suwannee County, Florida (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2015
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
These are the left-side cheek teeth of Florida tapir, Tapirus cf. T. veroensis. The length of the tooth row is 5.19 inches (132.0 mm). Pleistocene of Dixie County, Florida (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2016
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I've come close to putting this giant armadillo jaw into my scraps box each time I looked at it in the past. It's too good to throw out, yet it doesn't have much collector appeal. This morning it occurred to me (whence come these inspirations?) that this jaw is unique in one way: It reveals the cross-section of a tooth (second from the last tooth) in the mandible. Ho-hum you say. Well, armadillos like all xenarthrans have hypselodont teeth; they are peglike, open-rooted, and continuously growing. In cross section they don't look like horse or bison or dire wolf teeth. Lacking a branch-like or hooked root, teeth of an otherwise-preserved armadillo jaw are likely to fall out of the alveoli. It is common for a fossil jaw to be edentulous. Amadillo teeth have no enamel. They grow continuously, they had to. Without enamel, they would have worn pretty quickly. They are open-rooted; that is, the tooth pulp-cavity was not closed as in many other taxa of mammals. Think of the continuously growing incisors of rodents and lagomorphs but without the enamel. The term used to describe this condition is "hypselodonty" and is usually applied to mammal teeth. The term describes teeth that are open-rooted and ever-growing. Hypselodont teeth are found in xenarthrans, rabbits, some rodents, and a few ungulates, according to Hulbert's book. Anyone have an interesting cross-section to share with us?
