Peace River, Florida - August 8th, 2022

[Meganeura]

I know I’ve been making a lot of these lately, so apologies for the trip spam. I’m having lots of time to go hunting, and while the water level remains low enough to hunt, I had to take advantage of it. There’ll be one more on Friday and then I’ll probably be done for August, lol. Anyway! This was another trip to find more spots to hunt, and I definitely came away pretty successful overall. Nothing too crazy, but given most of the day was spent looking for spots I’m not too mad. Now I can go right back to the spots on Friday.
 

So to start off, Megs, as always:

 

The nicer Frags - The big one and the small corner piece actually match. Would’ve been 3” on the dot had it been full.

 

 

A Gomph or Mastodon milk tooth cusp, horse incisor, tooth from something that I still don’t know, and a very large gator tooth:

 

 

More dolphin jaw bones + one that may be from something else (The one on the bottom):

 

 

Various finds including burrfish mouth plates, Ray dermal denticles, catfish spine, ray barbs, antler, shark vert, gar scales, cuda and Sawfish teeth, a sea Robin skull piece, and whatever the vert in the top right is from. I don’t think it’s modern:

 

 

These next 2 pics are all from the same hole - definitely going to be going back there on Friday if the water allows it:

 

Mammoth tooth frags:

 

Tusk:

 

 

This is (sadly) modern but I’ve wanted a complete gator osteoderm for a while:

 

 

Ear bones - periotics are Pomatodelphis I believe, no clue what the bigger one is - sperm whale? Haven’t seen that shape before:

 

 

And finally the nicer teeth including a half of a C. Hastalis in the bottom left:

[Shellseeker]

Daniel,  1st and foremost, I LOVE THE RULER!!! Lose the cube...

The BEST is for you to tell us the size of the fossil.. Now I know that the Whale Bulla is 2.6 x 1.45 inches. Why not put those words in your posts ? .. because it saves every reader from having to do it..

2nd,  as a courtesy to the vast number of non_USA members : do this instead..

Whale Bulla is 66 x 38 millimeters

 

Hmmm,.. You were the newbee who could not find a Meg and now they are all over the place.

You have seen this photo before...

I am wondering if (WAG) you found that piece of dolphin jaw..

 

Edited August 9, 2022 by Shellseeker

[Meganeura]

2 minutes ago, Shellseeker said:

Daniel,  1st and foremost, I LOVE THE RULER!!! Lose the cube...

The BEST is for you to tell us the size of the fossil.. Now I know that the Whale Bulla is 2.6 x 1.45 inches. Why not put those words in your posts ? .. because it save every reader from having to do it..

2nd,  as a courtesy to the vast number of non_USA members : do this instead..

Whale Bulla is 66 x 38 millemeters

 

Hmmm,.. You were the newbee who could not find a Meg and now they are all over the place.

You have seen this photo before...

I am wondering if (WAG) you found that piece of dolphin jaw..

 

It's funny, I had the ruler originally but thought it was too bulky for photos. It definitely works better for IDs though!

And it's taken long enough! I've found all of my Megs from the Peace in the last 2 weeks, crazily. Now I just need to find a complete one that's bigger than 3"... 

I'm going to have multiple complete dolphin jaws soon enough, the jaws are everywhere. Now if only they actually had the teeth still in them, I'd be ecstatic!

[Shellseeker]

Daniel,

This is as close as you get....

1st find a jaw section !!!!,, Then in the same spot,   find a dolphin tooth two months later,  the take a photo with the tooth positioned in the jaw....

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/114661-cetacean-jaw/

[Meganeura]

7 minutes ago, Shellseeker said:

Daniel,

This is as close as you get....

1st find a jaw section !!!!,, Then in the same spot,   find a dolphin tooth two months later,  the take a photo with the tooth positioned in the jaw....

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/114661-cetacean-jaw/

I have a dolphin tooth I found there actually… only problem is the holes in the jaw pieces I have are way too small for the root to fit. Doesn’t help that the root is curved. 

[Fin Lover]

1 hour ago, Meganeura said:

There’ll be one more on Friday and then I’ll probably be done for August, lol.

You know you can't go that long without hunting! There will be Bone Valley trip reports three times a week. 

[Meganeura]

34 minutes ago, Fin Lover said:

You know you can't go that long without hunting! There will be Bone Valley trip reports three times a week. 

If only it didn’t cost anything I’d be there that often 

[Meganeura]

5 hours ago, Meganeura said:

So I've actually changed my mind on the ID of what I was calling a "Horse Incisor" - I believe that it's a Llama/Camel incisor, along with the tooth that I haven't yet been able to ID. Which is both the top right and bottom left teeth in this picture.

[Meganeura]

1 hour ago, Meganeura said:

So I've actually changed my mind on the ID of what I was calling a "Horse Incisor" - I believe that it's a Llama/Camel incisor, along with the tooth that I haven't yet been able to ID. Which is both the top right and bottom left teeth in this picture.

Further update: it is a horse incisor - a deciduous one at that. The other is also a llama incisor.