Khyssa Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Here are a few small fossils that a friend and I found while hunting the creeks in Gainesville, FL a couple weeks ago with Sir.tommy.the.toad. I know that two of them are toe bones, one is a tooth, and one is a vertebra. What I can't figure out is what animals they came from and am hoping that someone here recognizes them. The scale is in mm and hopefully the pictures are clear enough. They looked clear on my phone but once I started editing them on the computer some of them became slightly blurry. I'm posting each fossil separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Second toe bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Here's the vert. Not completely sure that this is a fossil but since it is belongs to my friend who left it with me to identify I'm hesitant to try the burn test just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 And here's the tooth. It looks like horse to me but it's just so small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I think your first bone is Horse. but seems a bit short to me. Your tooth is a horse incisor, just worn down! Looks like a pretty good day of hunting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir.tommy.the.toad Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 cool finds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Yup. Looks like a horse incisor to me as well. I'll wait for Harry to weigh in on the first phalanx but it seems too small for horse (in my uninformed opinion) unless it was one of the pre-Equids. Whenever I see a vert that I can't figure out (which is the vast majority of them) it turns out to be gator so if I was throwing darts at a guess and Google searching to see if it was a match I'd start looking there for possible comparisons. So other than the horse incisor I have nothing of value to offer in terms of identifications other than to say I'll enjoy some informative posts by those on this forum who speak from a place of actual knowledge. Great finds for a mid-summer outing in Florida. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 (edited) Nice finds ! Edited September 1, 2016 by fifbrindacier "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 The first bone is the middle phalanx to the whitetail deer, Odocoileus virginianus. The second is a small bird phalanx. The third is an axis vertebra from some kind of small mammal...it doesn't look like a fossil to me. The last is a horse incisor, but it's a very small one...so you're looking at one of the three toed horses form the Middle Miocene. -Cris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Great find Kara! I have a few horse incisors but I believe all of mine are from the latter Equus horses. Anything from the smaller "three toed" Miocene horses are always a great treat when I find them in my sifter. Cris, thanks for weighing in on this ID. I know you are keeping busy these days tweaking the new forum software and answering a constant stream of questions about it. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Chris, thank you for the IDs! Thanks, Ken. I wish that tooth was mine but my friend was the lucky person to find it. She'll be thrilled when I tell her what it is. The two phalanx are mine. That's the first complete bird bone that I've ever found and I'll be adding it to one of my riker mounts with jewel boxes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 11 hours ago, Khyssa said: Chris, thank you for the IDs! Thanks, Ken. I wish that tooth was mine but my friend was the lucky person to find it. She'll be thrilled when I tell her what it is. The two phalanx are mine. That's the first complete bird bone that I've ever found and I'll be adding it to one of my riker mounts with jewel boxes. Hoiw lucky you both are. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Thank you, fifbrindacier. The creeks in Gainesville may not produce many big finds but the small ones can be quite nice and are often pretty colors and in good shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Khyssa said: Thank you, fifbrindacier. The creeks in Gainesville may not produce many big finds but the small ones can be quite nice and are often pretty colors and in good shape. I agree that the most impressive ones are not always the more interesting. For example i have a very not impressive fossil that is not a lot more than 2cm (i think = 1 inch), that shows : an alga, a gastropod and something that looks to be a phoronid worm. Edited September 2, 2016 by fifbrindacier "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimlock Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 That's a lot of cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 9 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said: I agree that the most impressive ones are not always the more interesting. For example i have a very not impressive fossil that is not a lot more than 2cm (i think = 1 inch), that shows : an alga, a gastropod and a phoronid. That sounds interesting! Sometimes smaller is better. Almost all of my better finds are on the tiny side, most of them from Gainesville. I set up a jewel box riker mount just for them. Some of my favorites are the nurse shark teeth, a small posterior meg, an armadillo scute, a cotton rat tooth, and a truly ting bat tooth. I also have a few fossil sand dollars and sea biscuits that have perfect stars on them that range from 1 to 2 cm across. It's a good thing that I really enjoy finding tiny fossils since they make up probably 75% of my finds! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 I have some gastropods that are from the millimeter rank. On that photo there are at least four different ones, the bigger is about 3 mm. They have two other advantages : they do not take much place and they are not heavy to bring back home (i let the men be bothered by heavy things ). "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khyssa Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 That's a pretty piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Nice finds! You both should be stoked!! Tony PS A bird toe is as good as a frog toe!! Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 48 minutes ago, Khyssa said: That's a pretty piece. Thanks ! 38 minutes ago, ynot said: Nice finds! You both should be stoked!! Tony PS A bird toe is as good as a frog toe!! I love frogs ! "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 3 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said: I love frogs ! Fried or in a stew? Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 2 hours ago, ynot said: Fried or in a stew? Tony Floured, then fried with lemon juice, yum ! And also in the pond of my garden, for the ones that are not big enough to be eaten. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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