EOS small treasures

[Shellseeker]

Beautiful day Friday. Sun was shining.  Besides sprinkles, rain held off until late afternoon. I am finding interesting fossils.

Let me try 2.

I have seen similar previously, but never identified.  Maybe others have,

 

Then a tooth:

 

Have there been occurrences of Aulophyster like small teeth on the east coast of the US? @Boesse

 

Like I implied, interesting fossils.

[Ludwigia]

Can't help with id, but they sure are interesting. The first one looks almost like a wingnut

[GeschWhat]

[Boesse]

@Shellseeker No records of Aulophyseter from the east coast, but to be honest, physeteroid teeth are generally not identifiable to the genus level anyway. Teeth this small, especially if there are Pliocene deposits afoot, could be assigned to the modern dwarf/pygmy sperm whale genus Kogia - a few specimens including earbones are now documented from the Lee Creek Mine (Yorktown).

[Shellseeker]

Thanks Bobby, I went for long stretches not finding these shorter , slighter whale teeth, but recently I have been finding many more  examples.  That's a good thing. I am working on accepting the wide variation in length.