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Picked this small bone out of my Sieve a week ago. Rolled it around in my hand. Seemed unbroken, so I kept it. Seems unbroken on all edges; An outside layer over porous bone; Articulation facet on proximal end. Fauna which I find frequently at this location is Giant Armadillo, Glyptodont, Alligator. Less frequently is Bear, Sloth, Dolphin. I will check out those fauna and others tomorrow, unless eliminates the check for a fauna because they know the fauna does not match. Please comment on any additional fauna I should check. Thanks, Jack

Went hunting yesterday. We have had a lot of rain and the Peace River is 3-4 feet too deep but it has been dropping and just due to withdrawal symptoms, we decided to try one of the streams that might have some low spots. The lighter colors tell you these are from a stream. That is a dugong rib segment upper right, mostly small shark teeth, a couple of Meg Frags, chunk of Mammoth plate, puffer fish mouth plate bottom. A Beluga periotic made my day. They are far rarer than Megalodons.. Only my 2nd in 15 years... the 1st was October 2021. There are other notable finds: A very small dolphin tooth (I will try to identify it, just based on size likely a small river dolphin). A Sawfish rostral tooth and then what I am trying to get identified.. a 31 millemeter enamel fragment with a unique tip. Additional Photos... This last photo of what I thought was the root end seems to have a chewing surface like enamel, so the "tip" above might be the end of a tooth root ??? This may be obvious and I'll but I have seen LOTS of broken enamel over 15 years. For example, that very thin broken enamel is similar to broken horse teeth, but I have not seen a tip that looks like this one on any Bone Valley tooth. All suggestions greatly appreciated. Jack

Digit and I lined up a hunt for yesterday. He was after a phosphate micro mixture from another Florida creek and in addition to learning what/how that was done, I was after some of the larger colorful teeth. The 1st thing you should understand is that Peace River connecting creeks are extremely low meaning that my back would definitely communicate displeasure both yesterday AND today. As Digit wisely pointed out, that is what Neoprofen is for on the trip back home. LOW Water Photo above. So the 1st 40 minutes, Digit sifted for matrix with an occasional larger tooth and I was busy finding the deeper pools of 20 inches deep -- no kayaks required here. I did find a hope canine but Digit immediately dashed my hopes. Next we were finding some of those lighter colored teeth: And finally as I looked closer , there were a bunch of tiny teeth, only 2-3 times the size of what digit was hunting! Here is a tiger... All in all , another fabulous day hunting fossils.