old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I finally finished sorting and photographing my Rattlesnake Creek , Florida matrix finds. This matrix contains Miocene - Pleistocene fossils and some Eocene. Thank you Sacha for sending me this matrix. There were a lot of good finds and I had a hard time deciding which to show here. I don't have IDs for everything, and some I do might be wrong, so please feel free to correct me. I am here to learn. I found numerous ray teeth. Here is some of the ray material; Dasyatis Rhynchobatus male Dasyatis stingray spines continued in next reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 I also found a great number of ray pavement teeth. Aetobatus I'm not sure of all of these. 1 2 continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 I found many different kinds of fish teeth. Sphyraena Lagodon Sheepshead type fish continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 other fish teeth drum teeth mouth plates and some 'scales' I think continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 I always like finding dermal elements. The first picture is four views of the same thing. I really like the longish one in the second photo. fish spines (I think) bones continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 These look like turtle to me. the back sides have bone attached. mostly verts There is so much crab material in that creek! continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) And some teeth that look mammal including what looks like an incisor from a muskrat. Two views of each. And I found some baby sand dollars and what looks like a sea biscuit. and then the shark teeth Hemipristis Thanks to MarcoSr, I have confirmation that these are Ginglymostoma. continued Edited April 7, 2014 by old bones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Thanks to MarcoSr, I have confirmation that this one is Ginglymostoma. All the rest of the shark teeth I didn't feel at all confident about IDs. 1 2 3 That's the last of them. Thanks for looking. Edited April 7, 2014 by old bones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Nice photos. What do you use to take these pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 Nice photos. What do you use to take these pictures? Thanks AlDente. I use an old Sony Cybershot on a stand that keeps it steady. I had too much light from the one direction this time, hence the strong shadow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Way to go!!! Nice finds and looks like wonderful material! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 Way to go!!! Nice finds and looks like wonderful material! Thanks Lissa. It was great fun. Took ages to catalog. I got too far ahead with finds and didn't keep up with photos ! Just could not stop hunting . Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Wow!! Nice finds! I can't wait to hunt my new batch from John! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Fantastic array and great photography well done indeed. Regards Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacha Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 That's great Julianna, a nice variety of stuff and terrific photos. I can see why the paperwork would fall behind the hunt for more! Good luck on that next box from the Withlacoochee. It's very different and I haven't looked at more than a cup of it yet so I don't know what to expect. What does your mom do with her finds? Do you photo them or just catalog them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 Wow!! Nice finds! I can't wait to hunt my new batch from John! Thanks! You will really enjoy this colourful matrix. I look forward to seeing your finds. Fantastic array and great photography well done indeed. Regards Darren. Thank you Darren I should mention the fact that there were hundreds of shark teeth in this matrix. I just pulled out the ones that I thought looked different for photographing. I have a lot of trouble telling one shark tooth from another as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 That's great Julianna, a nice variety of stuff and terrific photos. I can see why the paperwork would fall behind the hunt for more! Good luck on that next box from the Withlacoochee. It's very different and I haven't looked at more than a cup of it yet so I don't know what to expect. What does your mom do with her finds? Do you photo them or just catalog them? Thanks John. I really appreciate you sending this matrix and I look forward to the next (rubbing my hands together) My Mum catalogs her finds as I do. She takes photos of her finds each day and emails them to me for ID. I notate each photo and email it back to her. Sometimes, we look at something together on our Ipads. Photos work better tho. It is a lot of fun to share all this with her. Julianna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Julianna Really nice specimens and great pictures. You are really getting very good with your ids. The one tooth is a Ginglymostoma. I believe the others are also Ginglymostoma versus Nebrius. I had originally thought that I had found some Nebrius in the Florida matrix. However from some research, I can only find two species of Ginglymostoma from Florida. The Ginglymostoma have a prominent central cusp and are more symmetrical than Nebrius. There is still some debate among experts on the morphology differences between Ginglymostoma and Nebrius. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 Thank you Marco! And thanks to pointing me in the right direction on the ones I thought could be Nebrius. I will amend my post to reflect the correction. Your photos and IDs are the first place I go in attempting to ID my finds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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