Peace River - My first hunt

[Macacoty]

Took my first trip to the Peace River today and found plenty of fossil fragments and shark teeth. These are the items that seemed most interesting and most of these are hard for me to identify.

 

I have more pictures of all these if you need to see other angles. I didn't want to overload this post if they're not needed.

 

The top left bone piece looks broken at the large end, but mostly intact on the thiner end. Maybe the side piece of a vertebrate? Also thinking it might be from the pelvis area? I really have no clue.

 

The top right bone piece is definitely the end piece of a arm or leg bone.

 

I'm hoping the middle top piece with the grooves is part of a mammoth tooth.

 

The middle left piece seemed different then all the other bone fragments I found. Maybe a tooth?

 

The bottom middle piece looks like what I imagine a breast bone on a turtler would look like.

 

I'm almost embarrassed to include the "rock" on the bottom left but it feels like fossil. It has two perfect cut holes cut in it, almost like where teeth would be. I want to believe it's a jaw fragment, but fear it's probably a rock...

 

The other "rock" looking piece on middle top right seems shaped to well to be a rock. It's rounded evenly on each side and has an edge to it.

 

Thanks for looking and any feedback. If any of these look interesting to you, I'd be glad to post more pictures of any of any them. 

[Shellseeker]

Bottom , 2nd from left is a turtle nuchal scute -- turn it over http://www.fossil-treasures-of-florida.com/nuchal-scute-tort011.html

Bottom - 2nd from right is softshell turtle shell

Directly up to the left of softshell turtle is a fossilized broken sand dollar (I know where you were digging - There is only one place to find these)

Left and up from Sand Dollar is an endocast of a seashell -- it is not mammoth

Center far left is a fragment of a C. Megalodon

Center 2nd from left is a fragment of dugong rib

 

That is half, I would have to see better pictures of the rest   Shellseeker

[Macacoty]

WOW! That was awesomely fast! Thanks!

 

Here are some more photos of the top two bones.

 

 

[garyc]

Top right looks like the distal end of a cannon bone. Maybe camel?

[Macacoty]

That leaves only the top left. I'm not finding anything online. Here's another angle

[digit]

Agree with Jack's assessment. The cannon bone is likely horse--a camel cannon bone splits two join to the two toes that camels possess.  Do a Google image search for "horse cannon bone" and "camel cannon bone" and you'll soon see the difference.

 

The two lighter colored pieces above seem to be pieces of matrix (the larger one possibly containing fossilized shells from the look of it). Not sure about the two dark pieces either side of the softshell turtle carapace. If you want more information on those you should take some brighter photos of these (Peace River stuff can be really dark). Photos taken outside in sunlight work best as the sun is way more powerful than most interior lighting.

 

Nice variety--I really like the 5-petaled center of the sand dollar. As Jack mentioned they are not common in most of the Peace.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[garyc]

Digit is right that it could be horse. The reason I think it may be camel is that there appears to be a slight angle to the bone suggesting it may meet up with another piece to form the whole distal end. I can't tell from the pics if it looks like it has separated from the other side. Also, it might help to provide measurements.

[fifbrindacier]

I hope you don't worry, i brightned your photos.

[Macacoty]

Been waiting all day for the sun to pop out enough for better pictures. I'm very happy with the horse or camel bone. Either way it's exciting!

 

i went back through the rest of my fragments and included one more that seems different. It's way to thick to be a turtle shell and seems too big or squared to be a dugong rib. 

[Macacoty]

Thanks so much fifbrindacier!!!

 

heres a few more outside shots of the longer bone. Maybe a colar bone? Imagination is getting to me. 

[fifbrindacier]

[Macacoty]

The biggest bone still is a mystery. I've been pouring through pictures all day and believe I found the end of the internet. I started leaning towards pubis, but eventually landed on ulna or tibia. Think I'm on the right track?

[Shellseeker]

IDing bone fragments is exceedingly difficult if not impossible. I am thinking it may be from horse or camel -- big but not massive like mammoth bones.

You need to match petty exactly some unbroken feature on the bone. If you speculate on ulna or tibia, show a photo from the internet that matches a feature of your find..

Here are some horse fossil bones,  why not scapula ?

http://www.universaltreasures.com/fossilsHorse.htm

 

[abyssunder]

This one looks to be the distal end of a horse (Equus) metatarsal or metacarpal bone.

 

excerpt from Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists - Elisabeth Schmid; Elsevier, New York, 1972

 

[Macacoty]

Hey Shellseeker, this is why I'm leaning towards ulna http://www.prehistoricflorida.com/product_info.php?products_id=3695&osCsid=b3ca47f9116cc147d35264bee0aaae57

 

It's the closest I could find that matches my bone.

 

Thanks for these images Abyssunder. Headed to check out the Atlas now.

 

I went back to the river today for some more. Mostly fragments and shark teeth, but I did find a few things I can't identify yet. Going to keep trying but will probably upload a few images here later.

[abyssunder]

for comparison:

 

excerpt from Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists - Elisabeth Schmid; Elsevier, New York, 1972