Shellseeker Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 7 feet at Zolfo makes it very difficult (dangerous) to hunt the Peace River. I just got off the phone with my fossil hunting partner. Likely we'll go Monday trying those shallow spots we marked during season. That is because we are more stubborn than Bighorns. Makes me think back to Tuesday. We tried a location that has produced some miocene finds, but we had been there many previous times, and ignoring small teeth, there were few finds. Might be a croc tooth, but I would not argue if someone said gator. The reason I made this a FossilID thread This fat rooted small tipped dolphin tooth are rare.. My first fragment at 23 mm length and only 50% complete. My friend @jcbshark found an associated group of similar but larger teeth 3 years ago, but I know of no other examples from the US Eastern coast. Requesting examples and comments on fat rooted small dolphin teeth. @Al Dente @MarcoSr @Boesse 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Hi Jack. Cool tooth for sure, but may I ask what that thing is in the top middle? RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) 41 minutes ago, RJB said: Hi Jack. Cool tooth for sure, but may I ask what that thing is in the top middle? RB I believe it’s a ray dermal denticle. Edited June 11, 2022 by Nimravis 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 51 minutes ago, RJB said: Hi Jack. Cool tooth for sure, but may I ask what that thing is in the top middle? RB A good thread with some pretty large and tiny examples.. 1 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Done Drillin Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Interesting - found this on Wednesday out of Zolfo Springs . Much more robust than than the dolphin teeth I have found before. Looks vaguely similar to me ....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Look similar: http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 20 hours ago, Done Drillin said: Interesting - found this on Wednesday out of Zolfo Springs . Much more robust than than the dolphin teeth I have found before. Looks vaguely similar to me ....... Nice find, Agree on the robustness.... there are other dolphin teeth beyond the fat rooted one. Examples from my collection. Even though I have found a couple in the last 3 years, these are rare. : The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 19 hours ago, Harry Pristis said: Look similar: Harry Thanks for sharing... Hard for me to know such teeth are available in the river and I have been missing them for 14 years...There are some TFF threads finding similar teeth at Brownie's Beach, Calvert fm (very rare there also) and I have a few examples from STH. Nice to know you have some from Bone Valley. Have you encountered others similar from other locations in the SE coast of the US. Seems like @jcbshark has been fortunate enough to find some on the gulf coast of Florida. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) In my unexperienced opinion, the questionable crocodilian tooth looks like a croc to me, since it's got striations that seems to rarely appear on gator teeth, and it's much more narrow than gator teeth seem to be. Also hunted yesterday on the Peace - it rained halfway through the day and it definitely wasn't the best hunt. Mind you, I don't have any spots of my own yet, so who really knows what I missed? Edited June 12, 2022 by Meganeura Was looking at wrong tooth. Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Meganeura said: since it's got striations that seems to rarely appear on gator teeth, and it's much more narrow than gator teeth seem to be. Agree with your points, this one has an obvious carina, I am just not sure. The discussions about differentiating Gator from Croc have not seemed conclusive. This one is from a location where I usually find neither... 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, Shellseeker said: Agree with your points, this one has an obvious carina, I am just not sure. The discussions about differentiating Gator from Croc have not seemed conclusive. This one is from a location where I usually find neither... I found these gator teeth yesterday myself - it’s really only the bluntness that makes me truly think gator over croc. Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Nice finds jack. Your possible gator/croc tooth I'd say was croc Other than the dozen associated teeth you were with me to see I've only got a couple others from one spot where there's fill that you used to be able to dig here in Venice but they are rare there too 1 Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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