Hambones Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Found this while fishing a pond in SW Florida. Do you think this is a whale bone? Thanks for any comments. I thought it was a hub of an old wheel and threw it away. Thought about it all day and when I got home today, I dug it out of garbage can already on the curb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 It does look like a cetatean vert, but too small for whale. I would guess a porpoise. dolphin 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...
sixgill pete Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Dolphin. I believe I am correct in saying there are no porpoises from the Atlantic Fossil or Extant. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, sixgill pete said: Dolphin. I believe I am correct in saying there are no porpoises from the Atlantic Fossil or Extant. I always mix those two up. 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...
Hambones Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Thanks. This Forum is so darn smart. My first porpoise...snarge...dolphin. Great. Are these quite common? Today, I also received about 25 stones, rubies and sapphires, that we found this august and left to get cut. I dug behind one giant quartzite stone in the valet fork for nearly a week and pulled out 1000+ stones. Anyone interested in pics? I know this a fossil site. I used an invention I made to help with classification. We also used uv light to hone in on keepers My wife calls this her mining bracelet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambones Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Nice size ruby under uv light. My son actually found this at one In The morning, he said a short prayer and then ...boom, he pulls this beast out of the creek. He knows it's a big ruby even before he throws his handful of material onto the bank where he hits it with a beAm of uv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam86cucv Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 12 hours ago, Hambones said: Nice size ruby under uv light. My son actually found this at one In The morning, he said a short prayer and then ...boom, he pulls this beast out of the creek. He knows it's a big ruby even before he throws his handful of material onto the bank where he hits it with a beAm of uv. Wow that's a nice one. What kind of UV light do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambones Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 This is the uv light we use. Pretty cool. The kids love it. Find the local residents driveways that were made from reconstituted tailings. Works great. You find lots. It just shine into creek and , bam, you start seeing red glows. Rubies and these particular sapphires are effervescent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 12 hours ago, ynot said: I always mix those two up. And most fishermen will tell you that a Dolphin is a fish! If you want to eat one though, it's politically correct to call it Mahi Mahi so no one thinks you're eating Flipper. And if you asked someone in general "what is a bottlenosed dolphin?", they would no doubt reply, a type of porpoise. This is where common names come up short on a fossil forum. Am not a scientific name snob but would prefer "small cetacean vertebra" and let the inexperienced google that for more information. Of course our forum expert could probably give a more specific identification. You out there Bobby? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 12 hours ago, Hambones said: Thanks. This Forum is so darn smart. My first porpoise...snarge...dolphin. Great. Are these quite common? Today, I also received about 25 stones, rubies and sapphires, that we found this august and left to get cut. I dug behind one giant quartzite stone in the valet fork for nearly a week and pulled out 1000+ stones. Anyone interested in pics? I know this a fossil site. I used an invention I made to help with classification. We also used uv light to hone in on keepers My wife calls this her mining bracelet Feel free to post any of this in the Rocks and Minerals sub forum. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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