Shellseeker Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I do not always attend my fossil club meeting, but made an exception last night. @minnbuckeye had generously donated some fossils for the upcoming club Auction (Thanks Mike) at the March Meeting and I was delivering said donations to the Auctioneer. Also we had a cold front coming in today , so I was out hunting yesterday. Found a couple of 100s small shark teeth, 4-5 turtle spurs a couple of mammoth fragments and some random bones, not much else. After hunting , grabbed burgers & fries at McDs , arrived to the club meeting an hour early. I also had a ziplok of fossils from my previous time out, which had some excellent fossils in it... like a mostly complete whale cookie..* (see below) I went back to my tailgate and was sorting fossils between a few I wanted and the rest to the prize table for tonight's raffle. A car pulled up next to me , lo and behold, it was Richard Hulbert, tonight's speaker on the Florida Fossil Permit and maybe an update on the Montbrook dig (https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/) which he leads.... I could not have been more pleased... Richard started to identify those random bones left and right... This one was heading for the donation pile until Richard said, "Artiodactyl, ankle bone, maybe bison, complete...." That is more that enough to track down one of @Harry Pristis outstanding identification photos (THANKS Harry ) and that definitely reduced the possibly IDs for this fossil to.... wither Bison or modern cow. If Harry has a right side ectocuneiform, this one is also... My "feeling" is that this one is hard fossilized, but as I have seen previously , size may be a differentiator. So Harry, if you see this thread, let me know if you agree with "right" and have any reason to believe more likely Bos than Bison.. Whale Cookie !!! (I actually think of them as Oreos, but they do not have that chocolate taste... 6 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Me want cookie! Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Cooookieeee! Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Hi Jack, It's great when you can get the little ankle/wrist bones identified to at least family. Fossillarry used to live about a half-hour away from me and help me learn the differences between the bones that looked like rocks before. Yeah, those epiphyses don't taste like chocolate at all. Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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