beachcomber Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Once again I'm happy to say I am able to spend a few months hunting for fossils in Florida instead of hunting for my hat and gloves in Minnesota. I recently had the opportunity to go on a Peace River dig with Fred Mazza of Paleo Discoveries. After about fifteen years of collecting on the beaches and in the river I managed to find my first dolphin tooth. Shoveling in the river beats the heck out of shoveling snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavialboy Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 wow congrats on the cool find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Wow , that's a beauty! About as good as it gets! Congrats! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Yup. My kind of shoveling too. Seems a bit large for the small Long-beaked Dolphin teeth we occasionally find in the Peace River. Since dolphins are really just an informal grouping of smaller toothed whales (Odontoceti--literally, "toothed whale") I tend to just call these "whale teeth" when I find them in the Peace (especially the larger ones like your fine example). Isolated teeth are probably difficult to assign much taxonomic information to but possibly @Boesse might be able to chime in with something more specific. A real trip-maker of a find! Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Niceone, I hope Your next one does not take as long to show itself! 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...
Boesse Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Some sort of a small odontocete for sure - not really possible to further ID given that it's got a conical crown. Options for the Florida Miocene include kentriodontids, though others could be possible as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ropterus Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Nice tooth! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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