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This smallish odontocete periotic turned up in a box of miscellaneous phosphate mine things. This was collected decades ago from the Gardinier Mine in Polk County, Florida. I can't match it with any of the periotics in my drawer. Perhaps someone here has a match for this fossil. @Boesse
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Spoils Pile - Polk County, Florida - July 26th, 2022
Meganeura posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
So the Mulberry Phosphate Museum in Florida, which is quite close by, gets a bi-annual delivery of a spoil pile from the Mosaic Phosphate Mines. They got the pile a week ago, unbeknownst to me, and I only found out yesterday! They dump it on the ground and you can search through it, it’s essentially just gravel! Anyway, went for a couple hours, came away with a whole bunch of teeth. Nothing extraordinary, but here’s the finds! Handful of sting Ray barbs: Pretty worn horse tooth: Gomph or Mastodon enamel fragment: These are either more barbs, or fish teeth - if anyone knows, let me know: A sawfish rostrum, fish vert, and my biggest Ray dermal denticle to date: And for the teeth (Not included is the Meg frag I found I gave away to a kid - have too many frags, it would sit in a box, so may as well): Mako blade: All these sand tigers, including 2 small ones with both cusps! First time I’ve found double-cusped sand tigers! The nicer ones: double cusps: And finally the rest of the teeth:- 3 replies
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Here is my crocodilian tooth collection picture 1 Species: Alligator mississipiensis Age: 11 700 years- 2,58 million years ( Pleistocen ) Size: 3,96 centimeters Localisation: South Florida picture 2 Species: Thecachampsa americana Age: 2,6- 5,3 million years ( Pliocene ) Size: 2,69 centimeters Localisation: Polk County, Florida picture 3 and 4 Species : Maroccosuchus zennaroi Age : 48- 54 million years ( Early Eocene ) Size: 5,4 centimeters Localisation: Khourigba , Morocco Formation: Ouled Abdoun Basin picture 5, 6 and 7 Species: Deinosuchus riograndensis Age: 77- 81 million years ( Late Cretaceous) Size: 1,49 centimeters Localisation: Brewster County, Florida Formation: Aguja
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Original Gavialosuchus/Thecachampsa skull in Mulberry, Florida
Crocophile posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Greetings! I just joined today. Here's a pic of the original specimen of the popular Gavialosuchus americanus skull. This was extracted from a phosphate mine in Polk County, Florida near the Mulberry Phosphate Museum where this image was captured in May of 2019. This impressive item has been replicated commercially and is seen in museums around the world. As you may know, this genus was revised by several noted paleontologists to Thecachampsa, including both G. americanus and carolinensis (while the European Gavialosuchus relatives remain in the genus). The consensus seems to be holding. The status of T. antiqua still seems unsettled. This specimen, to the best of my knowledge, was discovered by well-known Florida digger Barbara Fite of the Tampa Bay Fossil Club, and is on loan to the museum. Note Synonyms: Tomistoma americana, T. sericodon, T. floridana, G. floridana- 6 replies
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